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Chicheme

Name: Chicheme
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Panama
Ingredients: 300g (canned) Hominy; 500ml Milk; 100g Sweetened condensed milk; 1 Cinnamon stick; A pinch Vanilla Extract; A pinch Nutmeg; 300ml Water; To taste Ice

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

White corn simmered with milk and cinnamon — a sweet Panamanian drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Chicheme is a traditional sweet Panamanian drink: white corn kernels are simmered soft and sweetened with milk, condensed milk, cinnamon, vanilla, and nutmeg. It's usually drunk chilled, spooning up the corn kernels as you go. It's known as a specialty of La Chorrera in western Panama.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a hot Panamanian afternoon, a cold sweet corn drink is poured from a big container into cups at a roadside stall.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Hominy 300g (canned)
Milk 500ml
Sweetened condensed milk 100g
Cinnamon stick 1
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Nutmeg A pinch
Water 300ml
Ice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rinse the hominy in water.
Simmer the corn, water, and cinnamon stick in a pot for 20 minutes.
Add the milk and condensed milk and simmer 10 minutes.
Add the vanilla and nutmeg and let cool.
Chill in the fridge and pour into glasses with ice.

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