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Bolivian Buñuelos

Name: Bolivian Buñuelos
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Bolivia
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 1 tsp Dry yeast; 1 tbsp Sugar; A pinch Salt; 200ml Water; To taste Oil for frying; 100g Brown sugar; 1 Cinnamon stick

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Fluffy fried dough drizzled with sweet syrup — a Bolivian fried sweet for Christmas and breakfast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bolivian buñuelos are a fried sweet made from yeast-risen wheat dough stretched into large thin rounds and fried. They're topped with cane syrup, honey, or powdered sugar. Enjoying them with api at Christmastime or for Sunday breakfast is the classic pairing.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a La Paz plaza before Christmas, a woman at a stall fries big rounds of dough and drenches them in dark syrup before handing them over.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 300g
Dry yeast 1 tsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt A pinch
Water 200ml
Oil for frying To taste
Brown sugar 100g
Cinnamon stick 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dissolve the yeast and sugar in lukewarm water, add the flour and salt to make a soft dough, and let rise 1 hour.
Boil down the dark sugar, 100ml water, and cinnamon into a syrup.
With oiled hands, take a little dough at a time and stretch into thin rounds.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden on both sides.
Drain the oil.
Drizzle with the syrup.

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