Prepare the original Peruvian picarones recipe.
Total time: 4 hours. Calories: 794 kcal, per 100 g of consumption.
Picarones are desserts that are prepared in a unique and very singular way. It
is a dessert that contains a sweet flavor and is prepared with flour, pieces
of sweet potato, pumpkin and is served with honey around it. Its preparation
is different in each place; but its consumption is in a particular way, since
it is prepared in public and busy places. In this recipe, you will learn the
real procedure and its preparation, see how it is made!
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| Delicious dish of Peruvian picarones. |
Ingredients for the picarones dough
- ½ kg of bread flour.
- ¼ kg of Iqueño pumpkin.
- ¼ kg of purple sweet potato.
- 2 raw eggs.
- 1 tablespoon of yeast (must be of soup).
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| Picarones served on a plate and accompanied with honey |
Ingredients for the honey.
- ½ kg of brown sugar.
- An envelope of cinnamon.
- Fig leaves.
Procedure of the recipe
Procedure for the picarones dough.
- Cut in small pieces the ½ kg of pumpkin and the sweet potatoes, and put them to cook on a pot, covered up to the surface of these foods (both ingredients should be boiled in the same pot).
- Once both ingredients are cooked, proceed to blend them in a blender (the pumpkin and the sweet potatoes), and form a dough. Remember to use the same water that is left over from the boiling, and add it into the blender.
- On a separate bowl, empty the flour, and add the dough that we have ground in step 2, and add the 2 eggs inside as well.
- Season with a pinch of salt, a teaspoon of sugar (the sugar will serve to raise the yeast).
- Once we have this ready, beat with the hand, for a space of 20 minutes, and form a uniform dough; ready to form the picarón.
- Let this dough rest for 1-2 hours, and depending on the climate the duration is longer, and let the dough rise.
- Let it rest for the necessary time, depending on the climate (if it is cold, let it rest for up to 2 hours; and if it is not cold, let it rest for at least 1 hour).
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| The frying in oil is the cooking of the picarones. |
Honey procedure
In a separate pot, boil the sugar and form a honey. Reserve this honey
to use it in the picarones.
Frying procedure
- In an oval frying pan, add ½ liter of vegetable oil, and let it heat.
- While the oil is heating, prepare the brine in another container, which consists of the following: Add ½ liter of water, a teaspoon of salt and stir until dissolved in the water.
- This brine will be used to wet the hand, in which the picarones will be fried, and it is used so that it does not stick to the hands, at the moment of frying.
Frying the picarones
- Wet the hand (with the hand that you use more), with the salt water, and then take the dough based on a fist, and introduce inside this same dough, the thumb, and form the circle while it is added to fry.
- Make this same procedure, with all the dough, and let fry until well browned.
- Once fried, serve with its honey, and taste.
Note: Do not add too much water to the dough that we are going to blend in the blender, and use the same water that was used to boil the sweet potatoes and pumpkins.Optional. It can be replaced with yellow potato, or silk plantain (very ripe), instead of the sweet potatoes or pumpkins.)
Video of preparation
Recipe translated from Spanish: Picarones peruanos