The origin of churros comes from Spanish nomadic shepherds.
These shepherds spent a lot of time in the highlands of the Iberian Peninsula and couldn’t constantly go to the cities to buy bread. The shepherds of that time invented an easy-to-make dough that could be cooked in a pan as a substitute for bread, since frying it over rudimentary campfires was much simpler than baking bread in wood-fired ovens.
The name “churro” comes from “churra” sheep, a native breed from Castilla y León and one of the most traditional in the Iberian Peninsula. The pastry was named after them because its shape resembled the horns of these sheep.
