Homemade Sopapilla Recipe

With Cinco de Mayo right around the corner, I thought I’d share a homemade sopapilla recipe with y’all. I LOVE sopapillas with honey!

While you may think Cinco de Mayo as a day where we all eat chips & salsa, sopapillas, and tamales, there really is a whole lot more to it than that.  Here are a few interesting tidbits about the holiday!

• If your Spanish is not to bueno, Cinco de Mayo translates to fifth of May.
• Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day. That happened 50 years prior to the Battle of Puebla. and it is celebrated on September 16.
• Americans consume up to 81 million avocados during the holiday! HOLY GAUCAMOLE y’all!
• In Mexico, the holiday is called El Día de la Batalla de Puebla (The Day of the Battle of Puebla) and Puebla hosts a battle reenactment each year. The holiday is celebrated in the state of Puebla, but not widely commemorated elsewhere in Mexico.
• The colors of Mexico’s flag are green, white and red: green for hope and independence, white for purity and religion and red for Spain and union.
• If you are looking for a place to celebrate in the US, then you might want to head to Los Angeles. A huge party occurs there, every year, outside of the city hall.

With all that, comes food so I hope you enjoy these homemade sopapillas!

Homemade Sopapilla Recipe

 

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Author: Lori

Ingredients

• 4 C flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 4 TBSP lard ( If you can't find lard then try Crisco)
• 1 1/ C warm water
• 6-8 C of vegetable oil
• 1 bottle cinnamon sugar
• 1 jar of honey

Instructions

1. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together. Add lard. Work in with hand.
2. Mix in warm water. Mix with hands until the dough is smooth.
3. Cover with dish towel and allow to sit for 20 minutes.
4. Pour oil in deep fryer.
5. Watch as the oil heats up to 375 degrees.
6. While oil is heating...pull out your wooden cutting board.
7. Cover the cutting board with flour.
8. Roll out the dough with a floured rolling pin on the floured cutting board.
9. Continue to roll until dough is ⅛ inch thick.
10. With your pizza cutter, cut the dough into 5 inch squares.
11. Fry until the first side is golden brown.
12. Turn over and fry until the other side is also a golden brown.
13. Place several paper towels on top of a dinner plate.
14. As you pull out the sopapillas place them on the paper towels allowing them to soak up the extra grease.
15. Flip on the other side to make sure all the grease is on the paper towel not on your so papilla.
16. Using a salt shaker...fill it with cinnamon and white sugar.
17. Shake to mix the cinnamon and sugar.
18. Shake the mixture on the warm sopapilla or dip the warm sopapilla into honey. (I do both!)

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