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Cachapa

Name: Cachapa
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Venezuela
Ingredients: 3 ears (fresh, or 400g canned kernels) Corn; 80ml Milk; 2 tbsp Sugar; 1/2 tsp Salt; 3 tbsp All-purpose flour; 20g Butter; 150g Melting Cheese

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⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

A thick pancake of ground fresh corn folded around salty cheese — Venezuela's corn pancake.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Cachapa is a lightly sweet pancake made by grinding fresh corn kernels and cooking the batter. Fresh off the griddle it's filled with soft, salty queso de mano (hand-made cheese) and folded in half. The texture and sweetness of the corn against the salty cheese is its charm, and roadside stalls cook them one after another on big griddles.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a roadside stall outside town, the sweet smell of cachapas cooking on the griddle drifts by as a family on a drive pulls over to eat one each.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Corn 3 ears (fresh, or 400g canned kernels)
Milk 80ml
Sugar 2 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
All-purpose flour 3 tbsp
Butter 20g
Melting Cheese 150g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the kernels off the corn with a knife.
Blend the kernels, milk, sugar, salt, and flour into a batter with a little texture left.
Melt a thin layer of butter in a frying pan and pour in batter about 15cm across.
Cook over medium-low heat until bubbles form on top, flip, and cook 2 minutes.
Top with cheese while hot.
Fold in half and add a little butter.

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