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Recipe to prepare “tortas fritas” or fried cakes with mate

They are delicious and very easy to prepare to be eaten with mates! Don’t miss this recipe...

Ingredients

  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 50 grams of fat or lard (or three tablespoons of oil)
  • 1 egg.
  • 1 large spoonful of baking powder (to make it fluffier)
  • 1/3 cup of water.
  • Frying grease (or oil)
  • Sugar for sprinkling

You can also try starch “chipas” or “chipacitos” with mate

Steps to prepare delicious “tortas fritas”

1. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together
2. Add the fat or butter, egg and water to form a dough and work it until it is smooth.
3. Let it rest covered for 30 minutes.
4. Divide the dough into small balls, flatten them with your hands giving them a rounded shape and ½ centimeter thick.
5. Fry in abundant fat, drain on paper and sprinkle with sugar.

Secrets to be considered

If the fat is new, it may exude a strong odor. To avoid this, you can add some lemon peel to the fat.
Remember also that the fat must be very hot during the frying process so that the dough does not become so greasy.

You can also check:

Easy cake for the mate

Comments

  • Mariana
    Estoy probando x primera vez la yerba de ustedes y me encanta!!!!!! Que placer , gracias vivo en Bariloche y la yerba la trae Diego y adriana de el Mercadito. Me encanto y busque el nombre en internet y veo que tienen una hermosa pagina también . buenisimo gracias Mariana
    21/05/20 17:34
    Yerba Mate Argentina
    Muchas gracias Marina! Nosotros no vendemos yerba pero si promocionamos a todas las yerbas argentinas. ¡buen finde!
    21/05/20 17:34
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