Spanish

Gachas Dulces (Sweet Flour Porridge with Cinnamon)

Name: Gachas Dulces (Sweet Flour Porridge with Cinnamon)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 1/2 cup all-purpose flour; 3 cups milk; 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 3 tbsp granulated sugar; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 strip lemon zest

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Gachas Dulces (Sweet Flour Porridge with Cinnamon) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

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Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1/2 cup all-purpose flour
3 cups milk
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
3 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 strip lemon zest

How to cook it

Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat and toast the flour, stirring constantly, for 2 to 3 minutes, until it smells nutty and turns a shade darker.
Pour in the milk gradually, whisking constantly to keep the flour from clumping.
Add the sugar and the lemon zest and cook over low heat, stirring often, for 10 to 12 minutes, until the porridge thickens to a smooth, spoonable consistency.
Lift out the lemon zest.
Ladle into bowls and dust with the ground cinnamon before serving, a rural breakfast still made across es_center and es_south and known as polea in Andalucia.

Watch how to cook Gachas Dulces (Sweet Flour Porridge with Cinnamon)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Spanish breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Gachas Dulces (Sweet Flour Porridge with Cinnamon), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

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- Macedonia de Frutas con Yogur (Fruit Salad with Yogurt)
  
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Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Gachas Dulces (Sweet Flour Porridge with Cinnamon) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Gachas Dulces (Sweet Flour Porridge with Cinnamon)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
Gluten	Yes	Alubias Blancas con Chorizo (White Beans with Chorizo)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 370 kcal
Protein: 8 g
Carbs: 40 g
Fat: 20 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 20 g
Sodium: 90 mg
Saturated fat: 4 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Gachas Dulces (Sweet Flour Porridge with Cinnamon) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.