Today I teach you how to prepare Rica Snack for the family: Las Arepitas Dulces. Arepitas Dulces de Anís Estrellado, were prepared by my girlfriend, this recipe is fast, simple and economical ideal to enjoy with both children and adults.

While she was preparing them, I took charge of taking the pictures.

These were the ingredients to use and step by step:

Ingredients:

1 cup precooked cornmeal
1 spoon of sugar
1 pinch of salt
7 units of star anise
1 cup of water

STEP 1

We put in a pot, a cup of water with star anise, let it boil until it takes a caramel color.

Step 2

In this way, the water must remain.

Step 3

In a bowl place the cup of precooked cornmeal.

Stage 4

Add the sugar and a pinch of salt.

Step 5

We put the water of star anise and begin to knead until it has a soft and manageable dough.

Step 6

We take a small portion of dough and with the palms of our hands we begin to give it a rounded shape.

Step 7

In this way should be the arepa, the finest possible can be about 3 centimeters, so that our arepitas can be bulked.

Step 8

In a pan, place 1 cup of vegetable oil and let it heat for 3 minutes so that when placing the arepa it can float without problems.

.

Step 9

Here we are with the arepa in a pan, the cooking time is 2 minutes, once it is cooked we take it in adsorbing napkins to eliminate the excess oil. And then we bring them to serve.

Step 10

In this way our snack was, the fantastic thing about the arepitas of star anise, is that they allow to place any type of filling such as: grated cheese, ham, mechado meat, chicken mechado. etc. We accompany it with a rich butter.

I hope you can enjoy and implement our easy recipe. regards