1 cup of cooked and ground or sieved sweet potato pumpkin
3 tablespoons melted fat or butter
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups flour
Frying oil
500 g of chancaca
2 cups of water
1 cinnamon stick
1 teaspoon orange zest.
Instructions
Step 1 - For the sopaipillas: In a bowl, mix all the ingredients and form an elastic dough without kneading, adding more flour if necessary. Roll out the dough to ½ cm thick and cut discs of 10 cm in diameter. Prick the discs with a fork and set aside.
Step 2 - In a pot, heat oil over medium heat and fry the sopaipillas a few at a time until golden brown on both sides. Drain on absorbent paper and serve immediately hot or set aside while preparing the chancaca sauce.
Step 3 - For the chancaca sauce: In a saucepan, heat all the sauce ingredients until slightly thickened, stirring constantly. Add the reserved fried sopaipillas to the sauce and heat until soaked in the liquid. Serve hot.