Carnival ears are a traditional sweet from Galicia and León. A very simple and fast recipe to make, in addition, are delicious and crispy. The typical thing about this sweet is that it should be shaped to look like pork ears, so you should be a bit skilled to make them as similar as possible. On the other hand, so that they are rich and crispy, the very fine dough should be made. In recipes, we show you how to make carnival ears with the grandmothers recipe. Lets cook!
| 🚻 4 Diners | 🕘 45m | 🍵 Low Disturbance | 🤯 |
| Carnival ears ingredients: |
| 250 grams of flour 50 milliliters of anise or brandy 1 egg 50 grams of butter or lard Glass 1 glass of frying oil |
| ADDITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS: Cheap cost |
Carnival ears ingredients:
1. To make the spongy carnival ears recipe, first in a bowl you must put warm water and add different ingredients: melted butter, a pinch of salt, anise, egg, sugar and lemon and orange zest. Beat all the ingredients until they are well integrated. You must know that you can add butter, lard or cow butter. In addition, to provide that taste of fruits you can put the zest of both, orange and lemon. In our case we have added both. Carnival ears with cow butter are also delicious!
2. Add the flour and mix little by little with some rods until you have to do it with your hands. You can also make delicious carnival ears with yeast, but in our case we have prepared this unleavened recipe.
3. knead until a dough that takes off well and is manageable. Then cover the dough and let it stand for 1 hour.
Trick: You can vary the amount of flour and need a little more, the same mass asks.
4. Take pieces of dough and stretch it with a roller until it is very fine. And, if the dough sticks to the roller, put it with a little oil to handle it better.
5. When the dough is already stretched, cut it into large pieces. You can also make smaller portions and make individual pieces.
6. Place to heat a pan with plenty of oil over medium heat, be careful and do not put the fire very high, but the carnival ears will burn immediately. Then add a strip of the dough to the pan and to give it the ear form, with a stick in the center of the side you must move it a little while they are fried. Leave them a few minutes until you see that they are golden. Thus prepare all Galician ears.
7. Remove them and place them on a plate with paper paper so that it absorbs the excess oil.
8. Place them in a source to serve them and sprinkle them with enough glasses. They are ready to eat! What do you think of this traditional crispy carnival ears? Tell us in the comments your opinion.
