Tequeños
They are basically white cheese sticks wrapped with a crunchy and slightly sweet dough
Breakfast Lunch Dinner Supper
Ingredients:
- Flour: Standard all-purpose flour works best here, skip the cake flour, bread flour, and wheat flour.
- Salt: I prefer kosher or sea salt. If you only have table salt handy, I recommend reducing the amount to half.
- Baking powder: Make sure it’s not expired or too old.
- Water.
- Oil: Vegetable or canola oil – Or any light-tasting oil of your preference.
- Milk: For cooking and baking, I like to use whole milk. However, you can use any milk you have handy.
- Sugar: Brown sugar — either light or dark brown sugar works.
- Fresh white cheese for frying.
- Vegetable oil for frying.
Instructions for Preparation:
- Prepare The Dough:
- Place the flour, salt, and baking powder into the bowl of a stand mixer with the hook attachment. Mix to combine. Add water, vegetable oil, milk, and brown sugar and mix the dough for 5 minutes, or until the dough is smooth and starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl. Press dough into a disc, wrap tightly in plastic wrap, and rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Unwrap dough and place on a lightly floured surface. Knead with your hands until the dough is very smooth and elastic, about 2 -3 minutes. Add more flour over the surface, if necessary, and roll out into a 12 x 15-inch rectangle 1/8-inch thick. Using a knife, or a pizza cutter, cut the dough into 1-inch wide strips lengthwise to end up with 12 strips. - Form the Tequeños:
- Cut the cheese block into 6 equal pieces, and then cut each piece in half lengthwise; you end up with 12 cheese sticks.
- Take one strip of dough and cover one of the ends of one cheese stick with dough. Continue to wrap dough around the stick in a spiral fashion, overlapping the edges until you reach the other end. Cover the other end with dough and pinch edges close to seal fully. The cheese has to be completely covered with dough. Repeat with remaining cheese sticks. - Fry:
- Add 2-inches of oil to a skillet. Heat oil to 350°F over medium heat. When the oil is hot, cook the tequeños in batches, 2 -3 at a time, turning them until all sides are golden brown. Remove tequeños to a plate lined with paper towels. Let cool for 1 minute, and serve immediately with guasacaca, garlic sauce, and/or spicy pink sauce (burger sauce).
Comments:
This is a great recipe. You can make them in bulk and freeze them, it's great!
Comment made by admin on March 23, 2023, 2:05 p.m.
Tequenos look amazing I can't wait to make them and try them.
Comment made by admin on March 29, 2023, 10:19 a.m.
These cheese sticks are delicious, I totally recommend to give them a try.
Comment made by leosim on March 23, 2023, 1:51 p.m.