Each week Mester Salamanca offers Chocolate and Churros to the students for a quick break from working hard during class! Here you can have a look at what we get up to and find out some more about this Spanish tradition and how they are made!
Eating Chocolate and Churros!
Chocolate and Churros are a Spanish tradition, eaten either for breakfast or a mid afternoon snack and is a social event for the Spanish! Just as you’d meet for a coffee people meet for Chocolate and Churros and a chat in a cafe or bar during the day.
Churros!
The churros are small warm donuts in the shape of long sticks dipped into a cup of warm melted chocolate, yum! Normally you dip your churro into the warm chocolate and eat it all together. It’s a long running tradition dating back to the 19th century when it was a cheap option and popular among the people in Madrid. With the warm chocolate they’re a nice way to keep warm when it’s cold!
Each week Mester Salamanca offers chocolate and churros to the students in the Salamanca school as part of the cultural program that we run alongside the language courses. The students love it, and the teachers too!
The teachers like them too!
The churros are relatively easy to make and are similar to making the pancakes you eat on pancake day at home! The batter is made up the same with water, flour and salt, fried and then sprinkled with sugar. The melted chocolate that accompanies it can either be pure melted chocolate or made easier to dip with by adding some milk!
Don’t forget to come to class on Tuesday in Salamanca and try some, or pop out with your friends to try some in a local café!
Wait…. Can you tell me how churros are done/made IN CLASS?? What would I need to have MY Spanish students (in the U.S.) make churros in the classroom???
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