Travelling Kitchen: March 2020

Saturday, 28 March 2020

Cheese Bread

Receta en Español

In Brazil this is a typical snack, it is originated from Minas Gerais. A region where gold and gemstones were found, in despite of that, in the XVIII century there was a little quantity of flour, then cookers of this region decided to use milk,eggs and cheese to make some bread with little flour.
Now they use cassava starch, I used normal flour to do them like at ancient times.

In Brazil, 70% of cheese bread is produced in Mina Gerais.

Ingredients (for 67 little breads):

- 500 grams grated cheese (half parmesan,half emmental).
- 500 grams cassava flour or starch.
- 250 ml milk if you use starch, 600 ml of milk if you use flour.
- 80 ml oil.
- 3 eggs.
- Salt.

Method:

1- Grate cheese.

2- Put in a casserole some milk, salt and oil. Heat until it reaches boiling point, then turn off the heat.

3- Add some flour and mix well.

Then add eggs one after one , mix well ,first with the help of a wooden spoon , then, once it is cold, use your hands.
The consistency of the dough reminds of marzipan if you use flour or something sticky if you use starch.

4- Take some dough with your hands , make little balls.
Put the balls on an oven tray protected with some parchment paper. The balls should be like ping-pong balls size.

5- Preheat oven at 180ºC for 10 minutes.
The cook for 30 minutes at the same temperature , until balls get slightly golden.

Here you have the recipe on my Youtube channel:

Where to buy the ingredients

cassava flour can be found at many shops where they sell latin american products.
I bought it in Madrid , in a shop at Hermanos Machado 24 , Metro Quintana.

Brazil

Tuesday, 17 March 2020

Bolivia

By M M from Switzerland (Bolivia) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

By Addicted04 (Own work with Natural Earth Data) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Recipes from Bolivia that I cooked:

Quinoa soup

Chicken Chancao

Sopaipillas

Bolivia in Internet

http://www.eabolivia.com/platos-tipicos-de-bolivia.html

http://www.arribabolivia.com/gastronomia.html

http://www.bolivian.com/cocina/platos.html

http://conociendoturismoboliviano.blogspot.com.es/2012/01/comidas-tipicas-de-bolivia.html

http://www.bolivia.com/el-sabor-de-bolivia/

http://www.recetas.com.bo/

https://calendariosaboresbolivia.com/

http://www.bolivian.com/
http://lacasadelakantuta.com/

Bolivia

By Caleb Moore (xrmap flag collection) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Saturday, 14 March 2020

Lephutsi

Receta en Español

Lephutsi means pumpkin in Setswana , the main language in Botswana, this is a popular way to cook pumpkin in this country. It can be a sweet (when you add some sugar to it) or a side dish.

Ingredients (For 5 people):

Pumpkin. (600 grams).

Salt.

Water.

25 grams of butter.

1 tablespoon of sugar.

Half a cinnamon stick.

Method:

1- Peel and cut pumpkin in little pieces.

2- Put pumpkin in a casserole , add some water until the pumpkin is covered in half. Add the cinnamon stick cut in pieces, salt and sugar.

3- Cook at medium heat for half an hour, until pumpkin is slightly soften.

4- Add butter in a frying pan , heat it until the butter is melted, then add the pumpkin. Fry until you see the pumpkin has turned a little more brown, as you see in the picture.

I copied this recipe from Freedes, an african girl who owns the blog: http://www.myburntorange.com/, In her blog you can see recipes from Africa . She was born in Botswana and traveled around many other african countries.