Fat cagochitos recipe

When it comes to snack or breakfast, not everyone prefers sweet meals. Therefore, in recipesgatis we show you this recipe of fat biscuits, a very simple preparation with few ingredients and ideal to accompany your infusions or coffees. These cagochitos are also a traditional Argentine recipe that combines perfectly with the rioplatense mate. With this same dough you can also make horn and booklets, so it is very versatile if you want to try several typical presentations of the Argentine bakery. Now, lets get to work, turn on the oven and learn how to make fat biscuits to delight your snack colleagues.

Ingredients to make fat biscuits:

1. Place the fat in a bowl at room temperature and let it rest for about 20 minutes to be soft when kneading.

Trick: You can add a bit of the water from the warm recipe to advance the process.

2. In another container add fresh yeast and warm water, dissolve and reserve.

3. In a larger bowl, cast the flour and salt. Make a hole in the center and add the fat and yeast previously dissolved in warm water.

4. Once all the ingredients are in the bowl, knead everything until you have a soft dough to the touch and uniform. Reserve covered for 30 minutes to begin to read.

5. When you see that the dough of fat biscuits has folded its volume, it will be ready to stretch it.

6. On a barely floured table, stretch the dough rectangular. Make a simple double so that one half is on the other.

7. Make a double fold for 3 overlapping layers. Let the dough rest for about 20 more minutes.

8. stretch the entire dough until it is 1.5 cm thick. Use a cutter to cut salted cakes, they can be round or square depending on how you like more.

Trick: In case of not having a cutter, you can do it with a knife and give it the way you want.

9. With the preheated oven at 180 ºC, place the homemade biscuits on a floured plate and pick them up with a fork or stick.

10. Bake the spongy fat biscuits until golden brown, approximately 20 minutes. They will be ready to enjoy warm!