What are churros?
Churros with chocolate is the best breakfast you can have after going to party and getting back to your apartment in Madrid. If you don’t like chocolate, you can have churros with sugar, they are also very good! And then.. there is another kind of pastry, similar to churros, but bigger, called porras.
Churros are light, crispy sticks of fried dough (see photo), the dough mixture having been made from water, flour and salt and then quick-fried in a large boiling vat of oil. The traditional method is to slowly pour the mixture into the vat while gently stirring the oil with a long stick, allowing the dough to fry and solidify in a large spiral, which is then cut into small sticks with scissors. Traditionally, churros are eaten with a cup of hot, thick chocolate, dipping and dunking the churro into the chocolate to enjoy the mouth-watering contrast of the slightly salty churro with the sweeter chocolate. Perhaps some of our readers find it difficult to believe that a simple water and flour mix can produce anything even slightly tasty, but the above description really doesn’t do justice to the final taste of chocolate con churros, which really has to be experienced first-hand to appreciate, and can almost become addictive, particularly after a night out in the city enjoying Madrid’s nig
