Churros chef

Mira occasionally dons the chef's hat. If the results are disastrous, she loses interest and also the energy to cook something new. After a failed attempt at red velvet cake (which was more the fault of the oven than hers), she hadnt tried anything for some time.

And then she discovered Churros - from friends' insta posts.

To tell the truth, I had never heard of them or seen shops selling them.

"You are old fashioned," she quipped in her usual teen gyan attitude. "It is a sweet version of murukku but western."

So I gave her the ingredients and allowed her to invade the kitchen after I had finished my chores. But soon, I had to intervene as her dough turned too liquidy. We tried adding more flour but it didnt help. In irritation, I asked her to throw the whole thing away. On second thoughts, since it was a waste of flour and milk and butter, I said we use the idiappam maker instead of the piping bag to squeeze out the dough.

With great difficulty, we fried it. It tasted good though it didnt have the desired shape. She gave it a castor sugar- cinnamon powder coating and had her fill.

It turned out to be a different version of donut.

A couple of days later, we chanced upon a Churros stall at Golden Village selling 6 long pieces of the snack for AED 25. Though we were tempted to try the real churros, it seemed just too overpriced to waste precious dirhams on it. 
We shall attempt a home-made churros again.