This weeks International Cooking Class was fabulous! Sister Garcia taught us how to make Sopapillas. We were all so busy eating that we forgot to take photos.
Because so many of you have asked for the recipe we have included it at the end of this post. Thank you Sister Garcia for teaching this class, we all thoroughly enjoyed it. We hope to see more of you at next months class.
The sliced pieces of dough before they are fried.
Frying up the sopapilla dough.
Sopapilla Recipe
1 package dry yeast
1/4 cup lukewarm water
3/4 cup milk
6 Tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. butter
1 beaten egg
3 cups flour
Dissolve yeast in water. Bring milk, sugar, and salt to a boil. Stir in butter. Cool to lukewarm. Stir in yeast mixture, then egg. Beat in flour. Cover dough and let rise for 1 1/2 hours. Knead the dough and let rest for 15 minutes. Roll dough 1/4 inch thick. Cut into 4x4 strips.
Fry in oil at 350 until golden brown turning only once.
Meat for the Sopapillas
Ground beef or ground turkey
1 onion chopped
2 cloves garlic
2 roated green chilies (or 1, 4 oz can of green chile)
1/4 cup salsa
salt and pepper to taste
Brown meat with onion. Add all the other ingredients and simmer for 10 minutes.
Once the dough is cooked open one end of the sopapilla and fill with the meat, guacamole, salsa, cheese etc.
These are super delicious!
Sounds yummy! Would someone post a photo of some after they've cooked up a batch so I can see what the final product is supposed to look like? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI'm curious, too, about how to open up one end. Do they puff up that much and thick enough that you can split each 4x4 strip?
ReplyDeleteHey Debbie - they puff up really big and with your hands just pull one end apart. it is really easy. i made them a while ago and they were so soft that i barely had to pull it apart to open it. we didn't get any pictures of the finished product - too busy eating - sorry!
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