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Hojaldre

Name: Hojaldre
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Panama
Ingredients: 250g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 1 tsp Sugar; 1/2 tsp Salt; 150ml Water; 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil; To taste Oil for frying; 4 Egg; 4 Sausage

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Puffy fried bread — the humble fried bread essential to a Panamanian breakfast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Hojaldre is the fried bread at the heart of a Panamanian breakfast: a dough of flour, baking powder, salt, and water is flattened and fried until it puffs up. It's eaten with sausage, eggs, cheese, or ground meat stew, and for Panamanians it's the very symbol of 'grandma's breakfast.'

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Sunday morning in Panama, grandmother fries one puffy bread after another in the kitchen and sets them on the table with fried eggs and sausage.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 250g
Baking Powder 2 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 150ml
Vegetable Oil 1 tbsp
Oil for frying To taste
Egg 4
Sausage 4

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, water, and oil and rest 30 minutes.
Divide into 8 balls and roll thin to about 12cm across.
Fry in 180°C oil, flipping when puffed, until golden on both sides.
Fry the eggs and cook the sausages.
Plate together with the fried bread.

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