Carnival flowers, also known as fried flowers, Santa Manchegas flowers, extreme fries or sweet honey flowers, are a very crispy traditional sweet, which is what gives it its characteristic flavor. Its fried flower form is due to the cross of the Order of Calatrava with its endings in Flor de Lis and its origin comes from the Sephardic culture. These crispy carnival manchegas flowers are very widespread throughout Castilla La Mancha, although its real origin comes from Campo de Calatrava. Although they are usually done for Carnival, they are also very typical in Holy Week and the cold days, accompanied by a good chocolate to the hot cup. You only need a flower -shaped iron to make them and a few ingredients and you can also do this typical Manchego sweet. If you have everything prepared, from recipes we tell you how to make fried flowers for carnival or Holy Week.
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| Ingredients to make carnival and Holy Week flowers: |
| 2 eggs 1 tablespoon of sugar 3 tablespoons of olive oil 200 milliliters of milk 225 grams of flour 1 pinch of salt 1 liter of sunflower oil for fry 75 grams of sugar to rebola 1 tablespoon Cinnamon Powder Powder |
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Ingredients to make carnival and Holy Week flowers:
1. Casca The eggs in a not very large bowl. Put the tablespoon of sugar and bat.
2. Incorporates olive oil and milk and mix well. The Manchegas flowers are made with this type of oil, but if you did not have you can always use sunflower oil.
3. Add the pinch of salt and flour and mix to undo the lumps. A slightly pasty dough has to be, but rather liquid. Let it rest 10 minutes in the fridge.
Trick: You can also sifle the flour so that the mass of carnival flowers is softer.
4. Put the liter of sunflower oil in a small saucepan, higher than wide. Enter iron in the form of flower into sunflower oil to heat.
5. When the oil is very hot, remove the iron and put it in the dough.
6. Introduce the iron with the dough into the hot oil to obtain the Manchegas French Frigues of Holy Week. You have to hold iron all the time to prevent it from falling at the bottom of the saucepan. If the oil rises a lot through the foam, the iron rises a little.
7. Take out the flower once golden and leave it on a plate with absorbent paper. If the flower has not taken off in the oil alone, retir it on the plate gently passing the tip of a chuchillo through the edges of the French flower mold until it comes off.
8. Mix the sugar to batter with the ground cinnamon and pass the recipe for Extremaduran flowers through it still hot. What are these grandmothers flowers looking like?
9. Go withdrawing with a sparkling the mass remains that remain in the oil so that crispy fried flowers do well. When you are left with less dough, change it to a smaller bowl so that the flower -shaped iron is impregnated well, because as you are less quantity, the Manchegas flowers will be smaller.
10. List the Carnival flower recipe! It consumes the fried floats preferably the same day, because the next day they usually lose their crunchy touch.
