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SOPAIPILLAS CON PEBRE Y PASADAS

May 22, 2012 By Manu 19 Comments

Sopaipillas

It is time again for the “Secret recipe club” reveal!  I am sure you all know what the club is about, but for the few of you who still don’t know about it, here goes a brief explanation.  It is a great concept… each month you are assigned a participating food blogger to make a recipe from and in turn someone else will be assigned your blog.  All you have to do is choose a recipe, make it and blog about it on the specified date.  The only rule is to keep it a secret!  If you are interested in learning more, or want to join the club, please visit the Secret recipe club website.
The blog I got assigned this month is Gloria’s Canela Kitchen.  She lives near Santiago de Chile and has a fantastic blog.  I really had a hard time to choose only one recipe to make.  I know, I have said this already, but I went through her blog many times before I could decide.  What I knew from the beginning was that I wanted to try something from Chile, a country I have always wanted to visit and whose musicians and writers I love, so that helped to narrow my choice down to a few recipes.  How about some Chilenitos with dulce de leche?  Or Manjarates (dulce de leche mousse with a chocolate topping)??  AMAZING, right?  And she also has all sorts of delicious recipes for berries!  In the end, I decided to make something completely different as it could be made both sweet and savoury… so I got a double recipe to try!  I made Sopaipillas which are fried circles of dough made with pumpkin.  I could not find the traditional pumpkin used to make them which is called zapallo, so I settled for butternut squash (which was deemed a good substitute after a little digging on the web) and they were so good, that I got a request from my husband to make them WEEKLY! Hehehehe  I served half of them hot with pebre, a salsa made with tomatoes, onions, coriander and green chilli… great with a glass of your favourite wine, while waiting for dinner or reading a good book!  And then I also tried the sweet version: Sopaipillas Pasadas… dipped in a syrup traditionally made with chancaca (that I substituted with jaggery), orange peel and cinnamon… a real treat, especially in this chilly weather.  In fact, I do understand why Gloria says that Sopaipillas are usually made when it rains… they look like little “suns” and bring back the sunshine in a bite!  Muchísimas gracias por compartir esta deliciosa receta con todos nosotros, Gloria!  Please, make sure you drop by Gloria at Canela Kitchen and check out her beautiful site!

I also want to thank Angie from Big Bear’s Wife who is my group’s hostess for all her help!!!

 

Recipe adapted from Gloria at Canela Kitchen

Ingredients:

For the Sopaipillas
215 gms – 1 cup boiled and mashed zapallo or pumpkin (I used butternut squash and pureed it)
40 gms – 3 tbsp margarine (I used butter)
1 tsp salt
440 gms – 3 ½ cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
120 ml – ½ cup hot milk or hot water from the boiled pumpkin (I used 60 ml – ¼ cup of water and added it little by little… it all depends on how much water your pumpkin absorbs while cooking.)
Vegetable oil to fry

For the pebre sauce
1 onion, finely chopped
1 or 2 tomatoes, chopped
1 green ají, chopped (jalapeño or chile)
1 tbsp oil
1 tbsp coriander, chopped
1 tbsp lemon juice
Salt to taste

For the chancaca syrup
500 ml – 2 cups water
250 gms – 1 cup chancaca or a mix of brown sugar and honey (I used jaggery, as I have read it is very similar to chancaca)
Rind of ½ orange
½ tsp cinnamon (and/or clove)
1 tbsp corn starch

To make Sopaipillas

Sopaipillas con pebre

Put all the dry ingredients and the pumpkin in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the hook attachment and add the water little by little.  Knead until you get a smooth and pliable dough.

You can either roll it straight away or make it into a ball and wrap it in cling wrap to let it rest for a while (I let mine rest for 45 minutes because I had made it in advance).

Now you can roll it.  Gloria suggests rolling it 1 cm – 0.4 inches thick.  I tried it but after frying them, they did not look like hers, so I rolled the dough to 0.5 cm – 0.2 inches and they looked just like hers.  Remember that they do puff up a bit when you fry them, and in the end they were at least 1 cm – 0.4 inches thick.

Cut the Sopaipillas with a round cookie cutter or a glass.  Gloria says that they are usually about 7 cm – 2 ¾ inches big, but she made them smaller.  I made mine 5 cm – 2 inches round.

Poke the sopaipillas with a fork to make sure they don’t puff up too much and deep fry them in batches in hot vegetable oil (I fried them at 170°C – 340°F) for a minute per side or until lightly golden.  Then put them on a plate lined with kitchen paper to drain the excess oil.

To make the pebre sauce

Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well.

Serve with hot Sopaipillas.

Sopaipillas con pebre

To make the chancaca syrup

Put all the ingredients, but the corn starch, together in a saucepan and cook on a low fire for 10 minutes, stirring to melt the chancaca/jaggery.  Then melt the corn starch in 1 tbsp of cold water and add it to the syrup.  Mix well and cook for another 5 minutes or until the syrup thickens.

To make sopaipillas pasadas, pour the syrup over the Sopaipillas and serve!

Sopaipillas pasadas

Enjoy them while listening to one of my favourite songs ever: Gracias a la vida by Violeta Parra! <3

Sopaipillas con pebre

Sopaipillas pasadas



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Comments

  1. PolaM says

    May 22, 2012 at 5:08 am

    Looks very delicious! Am truly intrigued!

    Reply
  2. gloria says

    May 22, 2012 at 8:15 am

    Dear Look amazing, really amazing you made perfect I would eat right now LOL
    I love your pictures too Im so glad you enjoy my recipes:)
    Thanks
    gloria

    Reply
    • Manu says

      May 22, 2012 at 12:08 pm

      Thank YOU Gloria! I love your blog! And the sopaipillas were so good! I am going to make them again this week!!! <3

      Reply
  3. Cristy says

    May 22, 2012 at 9:42 am

    Holy smokes, Manu! This looks RIDICULOUSLY delicious! Your pictures are so amazing. Oh. Oops. I ate my computer. Again.

    Reply
  4. Pilar says

    May 22, 2012 at 11:59 am

    You rock! they look so good. I’m dying to have a bite.
    Gloria told me about your blog. Is lovely!
    Best,

    Reply
  5. Teri @ The Freshman Cook says

    May 22, 2012 at 2:15 pm

    I can’t wait to try them all!

    Reply
  6. Gerry @ Foodness Gracious says

    May 22, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    Wow, I could not stop at just one of these, or two….or maybe three 😉
    Take care..

    Reply
  7. Maureen @ Orgasmic Chef says

    May 22, 2012 at 11:00 pm

    I had to laugh at butternut squash. I’m always so careful to write pumpkin after butternut but I add (squash) for all my American pals. You’re my idol.

    I love this dish – and you’ve done it so well.

    Reply
  8. Jen @ Juanita's Cocina says

    May 23, 2012 at 3:35 am

    Manu, these are STUNNING!

    And what a different take on sopapillas.

    Reply
  9. mjskit says

    May 23, 2012 at 4:44 am

    These look really, really good! I eat sopapillas all of the time, but nothing like this! Love them and love that syrup! Great job Manuela!

    Reply
  10. Mario Matassa says

    May 23, 2012 at 6:35 am

    I wish I could pick one up and eat it straight away! They look so delicious!

    Reply
  11. gloria says

    May 23, 2012 at 8:37 am

    Really I love your sopaipillas I sent your link of this to others friends LOL

    Reply
  12. Kim Bee says

    May 23, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    Oh my goodness, this is so unique. I’ve not had this before but think I may need to change that. Your photos are wonderful as usual.

    Reply
  13. Erin says

    May 24, 2012 at 5:35 am

    Darn these look soooo delicious! What a great opportunity to be exposed to totally new and unique recipes. 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing your experience. I can’t wait to try these out.

    Reply
  14. {Adventuresindinner} says

    May 25, 2012 at 3:08 am

    Love both versions! Happy fellow SRC group C’er C:

    Reply
  15. Jo says

    May 26, 2012 at 1:43 pm

    Love sopapillas, just never have made them at home, don’t know why not though, they look so easy!

    Reply
  16. Holly says

    May 28, 2012 at 2:49 am

    mouthwatering. That’s all I can say!

    Reply

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