Throughout Spain there are typical desserts, as well as types of wines, cheeses, and others, but today is the day of the Basque Country, and what better way to celebrate it than eating a goxua, a typical dessert of the area and that looks exquisite. . In addition, whoever tries it falls in love with him forever, and we are not surprised, but there is a small detail that has escaped us … is it healthy? Let’s not get too illusions.
There are healthy desserts beyond an apple. Having a balanced diet rich in vegetables, fruits, legumes and others is of vital importance. That does not prevent us from eating some toast with Nutella, a Coca-Cola, ordering a ColaCao in a bar, having lunch one day at Burger King, ordering pizza on a Saturday night or eating sweets at the movies. Nobody stops us and they are things that, rationed throughout the month, can be done, as long as the basis is a healthy diet and we do physical activity
Our diet is no longer healthy when we eat sugary and ultra-processed foods several times a week. This is why we are never strict, but not permissive, we must create a middle ground and that is where the balance between good nutrition and happiness is found.
If we want to know if the Goxua dessert is healthy, we will have to know its ingredients and the quantities, but we already anticipate that it is not the perfect dessert to eat it daily, but we want to have diabetes.
Wikipedia
One goxua is 30% sugar
This dessert does not have much time and is typical of Vitoria, goxua in Basque means “rich dessert” . The preparation of this recipe varies from one region to another, but the main ingredients such as cream, sponge cakes / sobaos and sugar or caramel, are always the same.
Having that small list of ingredients clear, we can already get used to the idea that it is a very caloric dessert with a lot of sugar. Specifically, although it depends on each person who makes it, we have about 150 grams of white sugar, 150 ml of whipping cream, 150 grams of sobaos, 1 egg, 20 ml of rum / sweet wine or whiskey and a stick of cinnamon.
Those 150 grams of sugar will be used to whip the cream, it will also be necessary to create the pastry cream, so you have to add more sugar, plus the sugar from the caramel plus that of the sobaos or the cakes that we choose. In short, a bomb of empty calories for the body capable of melting all palates, we cannot deny it. But it is not an unhealthy dessert. We can eat a small portion, or create a fit version, using erythritol, for example.
When we finish the recipe we will have a typical dessert of the Basque Country of almost 700 kilocalories , since we must add all the sugar, cream, cakes, eggs, milk and others. There will also be just over 10 grams of protein, 30 grams of fat of which 73% are saturated fat and almost 30% of the dessert is just sugar .
