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Savory Baking

Mbeiju

Typical Paraguayan breakfast or merienda snack.

Recipe by Comida Paraguaya recipe book
Prep
20 minutes
Cook
20 minutes
Total
40 minutes
Serves
8

Ingredients

  • • 2 T lard or butter
  • • 3 eggs
  • • 4 c almidon
  • • 250 -500g cheese, half grated and half diced
  • • 1 T salt
  • • ¾ c milk

Instructions

Beat the lard or butter till softened. Add the eggs and keep beating. Add salt and grated cheese. Add the almidon, adding milk to make a slightly crumbly mixture. (Texture is such that dough can form balls, but can also crumble up again.) Gently mix in the diced cheese. Heat a little butter or lard in a frying pan. Add crumbly dough to thickness desired. Press dough down gently with your hand so it sticks together. You can make it anywhere from 7mm thick to an inch thick, but the latter is harder to cook without burning. Turn, using a plate if necessary. Serve with Paraguayan Cocido.

Tags

savory-baking fried cheese Paraguayan