🇵🇪 How to Make Picarones

Craving Picarones? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Picarones at home, in about 1 hr, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 300g sweet potato and 200g squash, boiled and puréed
• 400g flour
• 7g yeast
• 1 tsp anise seeds
• oil for frying
• Syrup: 200g chancaca or dark brown sugar, 200ml water, 1 orange peel, 1 cinnamon stick

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Boil the sweet potato and squash with the anise seeds, then purée them and cool to lukewarm.
2. Mix with the yeast and flour into a very wet, sticky dough. It should be closer to a batter.
3. Cover and leave 1 hr until puffy and bubbling.
4. Simmer the syrup ingredients 20 min until it coats a spoon, then strain.
5. Wet your hands, take a blob of dough and poke a hole through the middle with your thumb, stretching it into a ring. Drop into 180°C oil.
6. Fry until deep gold, 2 min. Drain, stack, and pour the warm syrup over.