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Murcian paparajotes
Ingredients
-2 eggs.
-300 g of sugar.
-8 g of baking powder.
-½ liter of milk.
-500 g of flour.
-10 g of cinnamon.
-Zest of 1 lemon.
-Lemon leaves.
-Sunflower oil for frying.
Preparation mode
-Step 1: mix the yeast, eggs and 100 g of sugar in a container.
-Step 2: after mixing the ingredients in step 1, add the milk and stir.
-Step 3: add the flour and the zest of a lemon to the mixture.
-Step 4: once the dough is prepared, soak the lemon leaves with it.
-Step 5: fry the lemon leaves covered with the dough in sunflower oil over medium heat.
-Step 6: Let the oil drain after frying on a plate with a napkin.
Decoration and plating
To decorate and plate the paparajotes, we mix the remaining ingredients, 200 g of sugar and 10 g of cinnamon. Once these ingredients are mixed, a coating of the sugar and cinnamon mixture is added to the lemon leaf with the fried dough. (DON’T FORGET TO REMOVE THE LEMON LEAF BEFORE EATING!)
NOTE: Spain's Murcia region is renowned for its high quality and flavorful lemons. Lemons thrive best in the warm, Mediterranean climate of the Murcia region. Large, with a smooth, thin skin and a delicious, acidic flesh, are the lemons native to this region.
