Canarian Recipes: YAM TRUCHAS

Dear blog-readers,

Are you up for something sweet today?
Here a very traditional recipes for YAM TRUCHAS, called Truchas de Batata in spanish.

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 Kg. of yellow yam
• 3/4 Kg. of sugar
• 100 grams of peeled almonds
• grated lemon rind
• ground cinnamon
• 3 tablespoonfuls of butter
• 1 small cup of olive oil and 1/2 Kg. of flour

PREPERATION:

1. For the stuffing cook the yams with water and salt and grind them.
2. Mix in a bowl the grinded yams with the almonds, the sugar, the grated lemon rind and the cinnamon, until they bind into a thick paste. Set it aside.
3. For the puff pastry first shape up a mountain with the flour and place the butter and the oil in the centre. Knead it all until it gets homogeneous and leave it to stand.
4. Spread a little bit of flour on the table and expand the pastry on it using a rolling pin. Make pies of 8cm. of diameter. Put the stuff in the centre and fold them, making sure that the corners get well bound using a fork.
5. Finally fry the pies in very hot oil and they will be ready to eat.ook it at medium heat until it is totally cooked.
   

Another possibility is to make the stuffing with sweet pumpkin filling!!!
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