Pestiños
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Alternative names | Borrachuelos |
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Type | Doughnut |
Place of origin | Spain |
Region or state | Andalusia |
Main ingredients | Dough, sesame, olive oil, honey or sugar |
A pestiño is a Christmas or Holy Week pastry that is popular in Andalusia and other regions of southern Spain. It is a piece of dough, deep-fried in olive oil and glazed with honey or sugar & Cinnamon
Characteristics[]
![Pestiño.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Pesti%C3%B1o.jpg/163px-Pesti%C3%B1o.jpg)
Normally the dough is flavoured with sesame. Its form and composition vary from region to region and are different in Medina-Sidonia, Cádiz, Chiclana de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Rota, Salobreña and other towns in Andalusia. In these towns they are typical for Christmas but in the rest of Andalusia they are eaten throughout the year.
In Málaga they are called borrachuelos.[1]
Pestiños de miel, a honey-coated sweet fritter
See also[]
- Angel wings
- List of doughnut varieties
- List of fried dough varieties
Food portal
References[]
- ^ Aguirre, Lakshmi. "Tertulia Andaluza.com". Borrachuelos. Archived from the original on 2014-10-19.
External links[]
Media related to Pestiños at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Spanish desserts
- Andalusian cuisine
- Christmas food
- Spanish pastries
- Fried dough