Name: Chocolatería San Ginés
Address: Pasadizo de San Ginés, 5, Centro, Madrid, 28013, ES
Telephone: 913 65 65 46
Rating: 3.1

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Madrid

Chocolatería San Ginés

A dough of flour, water and salt pressed through a star-shaped nozzle into hot oil, fried until the ridges are crisp and the inside is tender, cut into lengths and eaten with a mug of hot chocolate thick enough to dunk them in: churros are Spain's breakfast and late-night food, sold from churrerías that open before dawn and from carts at every fair. The origin is argued over; the usual candidates are Spanish shepherds frying dough over fires, a Portuguese adaptation of a Chinese fried dough stick, or the Arab world's ridged fritters, and none is documented. What is certain is that by the nineteenth century Madrid's churrerías were an institution, and that the Spanish churro is thin and ridged while the thicker, smooth or lightly ridged loop is a porra. In Mexico and much of Latin America churros are rolled in cinnamon sugar and often filled with dulce de leche or chocolate; in Spain they are plain, or sugared at most.

The dough is the simplest in the fried-pastry family: boiling water, sometimes with a little oil, poured over flour with salt and beaten into a stiff, smooth paste, with no egg and no raising agent in the Spanish version; the Latin American one often adds egg and butter, closer to choux. It is loaded into a churrera, a press with a star-shaped plate, and extruded directly into oil at 190 to 200°C, in straight sticks or a long spiral that is cut after frying. Two to three minutes turns them deep gold; the ridges are what make the surface crisp, because a smooth tube would steam inside its own crust. They are drained, salted or sugared while hot and served in minutes, in paper or on a plate with a cup of chocolate a la taza, which is made with cornflour or a high-cocoa chocolate so that it is thick enough to coat the churro and stay on it.

A good churro is crisp outside, with distinct sharp ridges, and soft and slightly chewy inside, with no raw dough at the centre and no hollow greasy tube. It should taste of fried wheat and salt, with the sugar as a dusting rather than a crust. Mark down churros that are limp or bend without breaking, which means the oil was too cool or they have sat too long; a dark, bitter surface from oil that was too hot or too old; a heavy, doughy centre; and a greasy residue on the paper. The chocolate should be hot, thick and bitter enough to balance, not a thin cocoa drink. Frozen churros finished in a fryer are smooth and uniform and taste of the freezer. A proper order is six or eight sticks and a cup, eaten standing or at a marble counter, and the paper should be almost dry when you finish.

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