Leche Frita

 

"Leche Frita, which means fried milk in Spanish is a Spanish dessert snack typical of northern Spain. It is made by cooking flour with milk and sugar until it thickens to a firm dough which is then portioned, fried and served with a sugar glaze and cinnamon powder."

Ingredients

4 cups milk

½ cup sugar

1 cup corn starch

lemon zest from 1 lemon

orange zest from 1 orange

1 tsp vanilla

1 cinnamon stick

For coating:

2 eggs

1 cup all-purpose flour

Oil to fry

3 tsp castor sugar

1 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions

Peel the orange and lemon skin. Dissolve 1 cup corn starch in 1 cup milk. Add 1 tsp vanilla extract. Pour the remaining milk into the stainless-steel casserole, add lemon and orange skin, cinnamon stick and sugar. Bring it to boil, remove from the burner. Close the lid and let it stay for 15 minutes. Stir the milk well, take out the lemon and orange skin as well as cinnamon stick. Whisk in the corn starch mixture until it becomes smooth and creamy. Take a square or rectangular glass dish or pan and cover the dish with plastic wrap. Transfer the mixture into the dish with spatula. Wrap it and let it cool down to room temperature. Then refrigerate it for a couple of hours.

Beat a couple of eggs in a flat dish. Remove the glass dish from the refrigerator and coat the cooked cream with flour and then cut it into small equal pieces. Coat each small piece with flour and beaten eggs, then coat with flour one more time. Heat the skillet, pour oil. When it is hot, fry the milk on each side until it is golden brown.

Transfer the fried pieces to the paper towel to absorb the oil.

Mix 3 tsp sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon powder in a bowl.

Coat each piece in this mixture and arrange on a serving platter. You can drizzle some honey if you like or have it with ice cream.

Check the video here to get a step by step process of this recipe https://youtu.be/9JjfBHwBtV8