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Chipa

Name: Chipa
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 16
Cuisine: Paraguay
Ingredients: 400g Tapioca starch; 200g Melting Cheese; 50g Parmesan cheese; 2 Egg; 80g Butter; 80ml Milk; 1 tsp Anise seed; 1/2 tsp Salt

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⏱ 50 min

👥 Serves 16

Difficulty ⭐

Chewy ring-shaped bread of cassava starch and cheese — from Paraguay.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Chipa is a chewy Paraguayan bread made by baking cassava (mandioca) starch with cheese, eggs, and anise. It's said to have been born from the meeting of Indigenous Guaraní food culture and Spanish influence. Vendors calling 'chipa, chipa' on roadsides and buses are an everyday Paraguayan sight, and families bake them in large batches for Holy Week.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a morning in Asunción, a vendor with a basket on her head sells fresh ring-shaped breads at the bus stop as commuters take warm paper bags.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 16)

Tapioca starch 400g
Melting Cheese 200g
Parmesan cheese 50g
Egg 2
Butter 80g
Milk 80ml
Anise seed 1 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the room-temperature butter and eggs well.
Add the cheeses, anise seed, and salt.
Add the tapioca starch and work it in by hand, adding milk little by little until soft as an earlobe.
Divide the dough into 16, roll into ropes, form into rings, and arrange on a baking sheet.
Bake at 200°C for 20 minutes until lightly colored.

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