🇨🇱 Chilean Cuisine

Sopaipillas

Chilean Pumpkin Fritters

Prep Time 30 min
Servings 8
Difficulty Easy
Calories 225 kcal

Golden, puffy discs of pumpkin-enriched dough deep-fried until crispy outside and soft within, served with pebre or drizzled with chancaca syrup.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Add mashed pumpkin and oil.
  2. 2 Knead, adding warm water gradually, until a smooth elastic dough forms. Rest 15 min.
  3. 3 Roll dough to 5mm thickness. Cut rounds with a glass or cookie cutter, prick with a fork.
  4. 4 Heat oil to 180C. Fry sopaipillas in batches until puffed and golden, about 2 min per side.
  5. 5 Drain on paper towels.
  6. 6 Serve with pebre (savory) or drizzled with warm chancaca syrup (sweet).

Did You Know?

When it rains in Chile, street vendors appear selling sopaipillas pasadas (soaked in chancaca syrup) — Chileans say rain tastes like sopaipillas.