Maiz Yummy cakes !!!

This is a BEAUTIFUL dish once again from my beautiful country Venezuela and the central ingredient of this dish is" MAIZ " (corn). This dish is a very easy and simple dish that anyone, anywhere in the world can make it.

This dish is eaten all around the country; this dish can be found from a restaurant to little restaurants along the rural road where you can find the best cachapas ever.

Cachapas are very easy to make and I am going show you how. First you need the following ingredients:

·        Creamed corn

·        Egg

·        Flour

·        Milk

·        Sugar

·        Butter

Quantities might vary depending on how many people would be eating, so you might be mixing and adding as needed, just imagine you are making corn pancakes, the only thing you must be aware of is you should not use too much flour otherwise it will be like a corn cake which is delicious but im pretty sure you want to try cachapas first.

After you mix everything you just pour a bit of the mixture in the pan with butter and start making cachapas  “corn pancakes”.

Now we come to the fun part which is eating the cachapas and again cachapas can be eaten with everything and anything, but in this case cheese is the best option, any cheese?? Yes any cheese would be great. Obviously back at home we eat it with “queso Telita” which is a very soft kind of mozzarella cheese but it is a bit more salty and yummy!! Here in Australia you can eat it with Feta cheese.

That is the original and classic version of the cahcapa but im gonna tell you how you can make it fun. We have the following combinations of fillings:

·        Yellow cheese (queso Amarillo) – tasty cheese

·        White cheese (queso llanero)

·        Yellow or white cheese with pork

·        Shedders beef

·   Chicken

·        Ham

But as usual my favourite is cachapa with butter, it is just delicious!!

Hope you guys have a go and enjoy it !!!

                                  Joanna