How to Make Tequeños at Home! Cheese Sticks Only Better! A Gringo Making Latin Food!

How to Make Tequeńos at home! Como Hacer Toqueńos en casa! This video will teach you how to make Tequeños! Cheese wrapped in dough and the deep fried! Deep fried Tequeños are the best and this Tequeños recipe is delicious. Tequeños are a food found in Latin America especially Venezuela and Colombia! This is Venezuelan food and Colombian food at its finest. Tequeños are sometimes called Venezuelan cheese sticks or Latin Cheese sticks. However, they are much more than a cheese stick! They are amazingly delicious! Enjoy the day with an ice cold beer while dipping Tequeños into a nice cilantro mayo! Tequeños are a great party snack. Tequeños are a great football party food. Tequeños are a great tailgate party food.

So if you are tired of the same old boring snacks try tequeños! Take some to a football party with some cilantro mayo and watch them disappear!

Today I am making something special for Rina. She has been working so hard and she really needs a treat. So I am making Tequeños! What are Tequeños you ask?... traditional Tequeños are cheese wrapped in dough although there are other types… but my girl likes tradition so I am going to stick with cheese wrapped… but I have a surprise.. I am going to use two different types of cheese!

queso blanco (white cheese basically fresh cheese) and queso de frier (frying cheese). Call me a wild man! Lol

So let’s stop talking about it and let’s cook!

For today's recipe you will need:

2 cups of all purpose flour
½ teaspoon of salt
2 tablespoons of white sugar
6 tablespoons of water
5 tablespoons of butter
1 large egg

Apx 8 oz of queso de frier
Apx 8 oz of queso blanco

Procedure:

Dissolve the sugar and salt in the water and set aside.

Cut the cheese into small pieces about 1.5 inches long and a quarter of an inch thick.

On a clean surface form the flour into a small mound. Using two fingers make a hole down the center of this mound. Into this hole place the butter and egg.

Using your fingers incorporate the butter, egg and the flour until they have sand like appearance.

Add the water mixture to the flour and knead to combine until the dough comes together. Keep adding the water and combining until a soft dough forms.

Roll the dough out to a thickness of about ⅛ inch. Cut the dough into strips about 1 to 1 ½ inch width about 6 inches long.

Take a piece of cheese and wrap it with the dough, making sure the dough over laps and the ends are sealed off by pinching the ends of the dough. Repeat this until you either run out of dough or out of cheese.

Pour an entire bottle of canola oil into a large pot. Turn the heat to medium and allow the oil to warm slowly to 350 °F.

While the oil is heating, get a cooling station ready by placing a wire rack on a baking sheet lined with a paper towel.

Place up to 6 or 8 Tequeños into the oil at one time. After 5 minutes in the oil place them on the cooling station. Allow to cool for five minutes and enjoy.

Alternatively you can cook the Tequeños in the air fryer. Preheat the air fryer to 400 °F. Place up to 6 Tequeños in the basket of the air fryer and allow bake for up to 5 minutes. Be sure to check on the Tequeños after every minute as they may cook faster! Allow to cool and enjoy!

Tequeños go great by themselves or dipped in cilantro mayonnaise. Of course always served with a beer!

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