Delicious Salporas de Arroz: How to Make Perfect Rice Flour Cookies at Home

Perfect to enjoy with a hot coffee on a rainy day!

Salporas de arroz, also known as Salpores de arroz, is a type of hard cookie that is made with rice flour as the main ingredient. Salporas are a typical 'pan dulce' in El Salvador and are commonly eaten with hot coffee for breakfast or a late night snack. I prefer to dip mine in my hot coffee to soften up the cookie.

When researching how to make these I found a handful of recipes and they all contained similar ingredients but were very different. I personally don't like my Salpora too hard or too dry so I make them a little bit softer than normal. I experimented with a couple of recipes online and tweaked it to what i like my Salpora to taste. Below are some of the ingredients that many alternate:

• Fat: Some use Salvadoran sour cream, or vegetable shortening or butter.

• Cinnamon: You can use ground cinamon in you want the cinnamon taste but some use the cinnamon stick when mixing the ingredients to give it the cinnamon aroma.

• Flour: The main ingredient should be rice flour but I have seen some recipes that mix all purpose flour

• Egg: Some recipes have it, others don't.

Ingredients: 10-14 salporas

• 2 cups of rice flour

• 1 1/2 sticks or 1 1/2 cups of salted butter or unsalted. If you use unsalted add a pinch of Salt to the mixture.

• 1/2 cup of sugar. If you don't want them too sweet, add 1/4 cup of sugar.

• 1 tsp of ground cinnamon

• 1 tsp of baking powder

• 1 egg

• 1 tsp of vanilla extract

Instructions:

1. Sift the rice flour

2. Add all the dry ingredients into a bowl: sifter rice flour, sugar, baking powder, ground cinnamon, and mix well.

3. Add the egg, vanilla extract, butter, and mix well with your hand or stand mixer until the dough gains a playdough consistency. Wrap it in seran wrap and let it sit for 30 minutes, this will allow the flour to fully hydrate.

4. Make the Salporas. The traditional shape looks like an American football and it's pressed down with three fingers to give it the ridges. You can shape them into anything you want, hearts, circles, stars, etc. It's important to make the shape at least 1/2 inch thick so that when you press down it doesn't thin out too much and break.

5. Bake for 20-30 minutes at 350. Take it once it reaches your desired conssistency, I took them out at 25 mins because I didn't want them to be too hard. Let it cook for about 10 minutes and enjoy!

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