Wind fritter
Also known as 'caragirat', this fritter is a variety of those traditionally eaten during the Lent and Easter period. Its name 'wind' is due to its especially fluffy mass, as if it were hollow inside.
Bunyol de vent (nun's puffs) are made from a dough made from milk, butter, flour, sugar, lemon juice and egg. At the final moment of the preparation process, once they have been molded and fried in oil, the fritters move inside the pan and it seems that they go around on their own, hence the name of caragirats. At the end of it all, icing sugar is sprinkled over fritters.
With this same preparation you can make "stuffed donuts", filling them with cream, cream or truffle. They are usually taken for dessert, accompanying coffee or some sweet wine, or also for breakfast or snack.
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Productes de la terra
Bread, cakes and sweets
Territory
- Alt Camp
- Alt Empordà
- Alt Penedès
- Alt Urgell
- Alta Ribagorça
- Anoia
- Bages
- Baix Camp
- Baix Ebre
- Baix Empordà
- Baix Llobregat
- Baix Penedès
- Barcelonès
- Berguedà
- Cerdanya
- Conca de Barberà
- Garraf
- Garrotxa
- Gironès
- Les Garrigues
- Maresme
- Moianès
- Montsià
- Noguera
- Osona
- Pallars
- Pallars Sobirà
- Pla d'Urgell
- Pla de l'Estany
- Priorat
- Ribera d'Ebre
- Ripollès
- Segarra
- Segrià
- Selva
- Solsonès
- Tarragonès
- Terra Alta
- Urgell
- Val d'Aran
- Vallès Occidental
- Vallès Oriental
Labels
Season calendar
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- Feb
- Sea
- Apr
- Never
- JUN
- JUL
- AUG
- THIRST
- OCT
- nov
- From
Complementary information
They are marketed, throughout the year, in pastry shops and bakeries throughout Catalonia.
Attributes and nutritional properties
Bunyol de vent (nun's puffs) is an important source of energy. It contains a significant amount of fat, coming from milk, butter and eggs; very high quality proteins, also from milk and eggs; and carbohydrates, both complex (from flour) and simple (from sugar). Its vitamin content is not very remarkable, since cooking processes destroy most of it.
