Pan de Bono (Colombian Cheese Bread)
Tapioca starch and fresh cheese baked into hollow rings that go crisp outside and stay stretchy within.
⏱ 45 min total🔪 20 min prep🔥 25 min cookEasyServes 8Colombian
Ingredients
- •250 g tapioca starch
- •120 g maize meal
- •200 g queso fresco, grated
- •1 large egg
- •120 ml milk
Directions
- 1Heat the oven to 220C and line a tray.
- 2Mix the tapioca starch, maize meal and grated queso fresco in a bowl.
- 3Add the egg and the milk and work it into a smooth, slightly tacky dough.
- 4If it cracks when you bend it, add milk a spoonful at a time until it holds.
- 5Shape into rings or small balls and space them well apart on the tray.
- 6Bake eighteen minutes until puffed and golden in patches, and eat while warm.
💡 They are only good hot. Pan de bono turns dense within an hour, so bake them for the moment you want them.
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