Peruvian Picarones

Name: Peruvian Picarones
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Peruvian
Ingredients: 300g sweet potato, boiled and mashed; 300g squash, boiled and mashed; 2 cups flour; 1 cup chancaca (raw cane sugar) syrup

Picarones/pee-kah-ROH-nes/

About this dish

Sweet potato and squash fritters shaped into rings, fried and drizzled with chancaca syrup.

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Ingredients

🍠300g sweet potato, boiled and mashed

🎃300g squash, boiled and mashed

🌾2 cups flour

🍯1 cup chancaca (raw cane sugar) syrup

Method

Serves 2

Mix mashed sweet potato and squash with flour and yeast into a soft, sticky dough.

Let rise for about an hour.

Shape into rings using wet hands.

Deep-fry until golden and puffed.

Drizzle with chancaca syrup before serving.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Picarones are a traditional Peruvian street dessert, valued for their light texture and distinctive ring shape.

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