Easy Buñuelos Mexicanos with Flour Tortillas
Learn how to make buñuelos with flour tortillas in minutes. You can even transform them into edible ornaments for different holidays!
Equipment
- Small, sharp knife
- Straw
- Paper towels for draining oil
Ingredients
- 12 flour tortillas I like the semi-raw ones from Costco, but regular flour tortillas will also work
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup oil
Instructions
- Prepare ingredients. You can leave a few tortilla whole if you’ll be making full-sized, round buñuelos. If you are making ornaments, use your cookie cutter to cut as many sugar skulls out of each tortilla as you can. With the end of the straw, cut out two circles for the eyes. Using a knife, create an upside-down heart for the nose and a thin rectangle for the mouth. Be sure to make a hole at the top of each sugar skull if you’ll be hanging them as ornaments. This is where you’ll thread the twine.
- Make cinnamon-sugar mixture. In a shallow dish or plate, mix sugar and cinnamon and set aside. Line baking trays with paper towels and set aside.
- Fry and tortillas and coat them with sugar. Heat oil on medium-high flame in frying pan. Allow to get hot – tortilla should sizzles when placed in oil. When frying whole tortillas, start frying one at a time until golden and crispy, approximately 15 seconds on each side. Drain excess oil back into frying pan and immediately move the tortilla over the sugar-cinnamon mixture and coat both sides of the tortilla with it. You may need to spoon it onto the tortilla to cover well. Shake off excess sugar and gently place onto lined baking sheet. Continue the process until you have fried all of the tortillas. If making the ornaments, these will fry much quicker because they are smaller, so be sure not to burn them. They should only require about five seconds of frying time on each side.
- Enjoy. Serve warm or thread baker’s twine through the top hole to display as ornaments!
A Note from Lola
The calculated nutrition values may be slightly skewed. Not all of the sugar and cinnamon mixture or oil used in the recipe is fully consumed, as it is used to coat and fry the buñuelos.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 161kcalCarbohydrates: 16gProtein: 1gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0.04gSodium: 111mgPotassium: 20mgFiber: 1gSugar: 9gVitamin A: 1IUVitamin C: 0.01mgCalcium: 25mgIron: 1mg
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