Mexican Dessert Recipes
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How to Make Mexican Mueganos
Traditional Mexican dessert recipes like mueganos are always well worth making. This wonderful treat is made with cinnamon, almonds, eggs and more. These deep fried dough pieces are coated in thick, sweet syrup. Mueganos are really flavorful and adults and kids will love their flavor and texture. You can serve them on sticks or use them to decorate cakes, pies, or Mexican mousse recipes. Mueganos are especially loved by kids because they are so sticky and delicious.
The ingredients for traditional Mexican dessert recipes are sometimes a little unusual and you might find the white wine to be an unusual ingredient for such a sweet dessert but it does give the mueganos an authentic flavor. The cake crumbs are sweeter than breadcrumbs and perfect for making the mueganos mixture. The cinnamon adds a distinctive Mexican aroma and taste. This traditional Mexican dessert is not the most figure-friendly but if you are looking for low calorie Mexican desserts, just have a smaller portion. This one is too delicious to miss out on!
You can serve mueganos as a dessert, as a late morning or late afternoon snack or even have them at a party or a buffet. They are a great sweet treat for anytime you fancy one. Once you make them for the family once they will be begging you to make this Mexican dessert recipe again.
Traditional Mexican Dessert Mueganos
Ingredients -
8 eggs
½ cup white wine
½ cup cake crumbs
1 ½ cups water
1 ¼ cups blanched almonds
2 cups white sugar
½ teaspoon cinnamon
Oil for deep-frying
Preparation:
Hard-boil 6 of the eggs.
Mash the whites and keep the yolks.
Grind the almonds, and then combine them with the 6 egg yolks.
Boil half the sugar with ½ cup of the water until the sugar dissolves, and then combine this with the egg yolk mixture and the wine.
Stir in the cake crumbs and the cinnamon to make a stiff dough.
Break the dough into walnut-sized balls. Fill a deep pot with oil and heat it to 350 degrees F.
Beat the last 2 egg whites in one bowl and the egg yolks in another, then fold them together.
Dip the mueganos balls in the beaten egg and then fry them in the hot oil until they are golden brown.
Add the rest of the water to the remaining sugar and boil the mixture until it forms a thick syrup.
Add the mueganos to this syrup and cook them for half an hour over a very low heat or until nearly all the syrup is absorbed.
(Serves 6)
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Traditional Mexican dessert recipes like these mueganos are not difficult to make and they offer a real insight into true Mexican cuisine. These sweet, sticky treats are coated in a delicious syrup and you can taste the almonds, cinnamon, eggs, and all the other flavors. This is a really delicious dessert and you can serve mueganos as they are or use them to garnish other Mexican dessert recipes. If you are having a Cinco de Mayo party, these are always a great addition to the buffet table but ensure you make enough because they tend to disappear fast.
