Sopaipillas Pasadas (Santiago's Pumpkin Fritters Soaked in Salepi) 🎃

Name: Sopaipillas Pasadas (Santiago's Pumpkin Fritters Soaked in Salepi)
Prep time: 16 min
Cook time: 24 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 2-4 servings
Cuisine: Chilean
Ingredients: Dough: 300 g flour; 1 tsp salt; 1 tsp baking powder; 150 g cooked pumpkin/zapallo puree (or butternut); 2 tbsp oil or softened butter; ~80 ml warm water; Frying: neutral oil, generous; Salepi for pasadas: 1 L milk, 1 cinnamon stick, 3 tbsp sugar, 1-2 tsp salepi powder (or 1 tsp cornstarch + cinnamon as fallback); To serve savory: pebre (tomato-onion-chili-parsley salsa), mashed avocado, mustard; A pinch of salt to the dough keeps the sweet/savory duality honest

In Chilean winters, street carts sell the most unlikely pairing on earth: warm, pumpkin-sweetened fried bread drowned in a jug of milky salepi — a thin, cinnamon-vanilla drink thickened with orchid-tuber flour. You order 'pasadas' and the vendor submerges the sopaipillas until they go halfway cake, halfway pillowy, drinking the spiced milk like sponge. Plain, they are Chile's answer to fry bread: flour, cooked zapallo squash, a whisper of salt, no sugar, puffing golden in the pan and eaten as a savory roll-around for pebre salsa. Two personalities, one dough: dry and salty with choripán at lunchtime, soaked and sweet with salepi on a cold afternoon.

Santiago Metropolitan Chilean ⏱ 40 min Easy

Method

1

Whisk flour, salt, baking powder; rub in oil/butter, then work in pumpkin puree and water until a soft, non-sticky dough. Rest 10 min.
2

Roll 3-4 mm thick, cut discs or squares (traditionally a glass rim or the 'raspado' knife). Prick or fold once so they puff rather than balloon.
3

Fry in 2-3 fingers of medium-hot oil 1.5-2 min a side, until puffed and burnished; drain on paper.
4

For salepi: simmer milk with cinnamon stick 5 min, whisk in sugar dissolved with salepi powder, cook 2-3 min until faintly silky; keep warm.
5

Savory: split hot sopaipillas, load with avocado, pebre, mustard. Pasadas: tear into a deep bowl, pour hot salepi over, wait one respectful minute for the soak, dust with cinnamon.

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