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Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, picaronés (squash and sweet potato doughnuts). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Picarones are a Peruvian sweet snack originating from the city of Lima. The best way to describe them is as a doughnut made from squash and sweet potato. They have an incredibly unique flavour from the cinnamon, star anise and citrus fruit used to create the dough and accompanying syrup.

Picaronés (Squash And Sweet Potato Doughnuts) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Picaronés (Squash And Sweet Potato Doughnuts) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have picaronés (squash and sweet potato doughnuts) using 21 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Picaronés (Squash And Sweet Potato Doughnuts):

1. Make ready Syrup
2. Get 1 cup Molasses
3. Take 1/2 cup Light brown sugar
4. Make ready 2 Cloves
5. Get 1 Cinnamon stick
6. Prepare 1 Allspice
7. Get 1/2 Peel of an orange
8. Take 2 cup Water
9. Get 1/2 tbsp Anise seeds
10. Prepare Dough
11. Make ready 150 grams Sweet potato
12. Take 80 grams Macre squash
13. Prepare 80 grams Loche squash (both types of squash can be substituted for butternut squash)
14. Take 300 grams Plain flour
15. Take 4 grams Fresh yeast (you can get this from most bakers)
16. Make ready 3 tbsp Granulated sugar
17. Prepare 1/2 tsp Salt
18. Take 1/2 tsp Anise seed
19. Take 1/4 cup Cola
20. Prepare 2/3 cup Anise seed tea
21. Get 1 Oil for deep frying

Panela/ Piloncillo Picarónes (pumpkin and sweet potato doughnuts) This will be saved to your scrapbook. Send a link to this recipe to a friend or your own e-mail address as a reminder. Add the anise seeds, cinnamon and cloves. Drain sweet potato and discard the cinnamon and cloves.

Instructions to make Picaronés (Squash And Sweet Potato Doughnuts):

1. For Syrup - Put all the ingredients in a pan and bring to the boil
2. Let it cook until the mixture is thick and syrupy
3. Strain into a suitable container off the heat and let it cool down
4. Refrigerate until needed
5. For Dough - bring a pan of water to the boil
6. Add the sweet potato and cook until tender
7. Drain sweet potato and repeat with the squash
8. Put vegetables in a blender and blend until puréed
9. Put the veg in a large bowl with the flour, yeast, sugar, salt, anise seeds,cola, and tea
10. Using your hands, combine ingredients into a dough then kneed for 20 mins until smooth
11. Leave the dough in a warm place for 1 1/2 hours to prove
12. Heat the oil in a large pan or in a deep-fryer to 180°C or until a crude of bread Browns in 30 seconds
13. Take pieces of the dough and shape into ring, then drop carefully into the hot oil and cook until crispy and golden
14. Drain well then drizzle on the syrup to finish

Once cooled, mash up the sweet potato and pumpkin to remove any lumps. In a small pot, bring the water, sweet potato, cinnamon stick and aniseed to a boil. Drain the potatoes and return to the pot. Place the sweet potatoes in a large saucepan, cover with water, and boil until easier pierced with a fork. Picarones may look like buñuelos or beignets, but they are one of a kind.

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