A Recipe for Carnival, Orejas

In Galicia, for carnival, it is traditional to prepare ears carnival, call galledo "Orell. They are a delicious dessert that certainly we should prepare all year round.

Ingredients of Ears of Carnival:

500 gr. flour.
1 egg.
200 cc of warm water with salt.
100 gr. sugar.
100 gr. cooked in lard or butter cow.
Anise.
1 cucharadilla of levadurina.

It is important that the butter and eggs are not cold from the refrigerator, it is best to be at room temperature and warm and soft butter. Mix the flour in a bowl with levadurina, and formed a volcano with a hole in the center. Beat eggs well with a few spoonfuls of sugar and anise and add the hollow of the flour with water and melted butter, warm and pieces. Rioja rioja mixed slowly and finished knead on a floured board, until a soft dough, elastic and not stick. If you do need more water or flour add. Let rest for a good time and shape the ears.

Molding pieces catch the ears of the mass of about 200 gr. and extend the roll on a floured board, so it is very thin. Then we cut the dough into portions of a square, rectangular or irregular, and fry in a pan with plenty of hot oil, over medium heat, fry both the sides until they acquire a slight golden color. We put the source in a glass and sprinkled sugar, or normal, above.

Data to take into account when making your ears, which are: ears are richer far the finest do. A trick for us is fine to stretch out each portion with a little help from the fingers in the air, putting irlas frying. To find out if the oil is the proper temperature for frying can wet a toothpick or the handle of a wooden spoon, if many bubbles are formed quickly around him is that oil is in point.