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Typical food of Peruvian cuisine.
The cachanga, or cachangas, is a typical meal of Peruvian cuisine, and often
prepared outdoors, and in a wood stove (made of stones or brick). It is a meal
that you can prepare easily, and its ingredients can be found in a local
market; in addition, you can serve it with tea or lemon verbena. Learn how to
make cachangas in this recipe.
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| Cachangas Peruvian recipe. Image provided by Paolo @ Rojas via Flickr |
Ingredients for cachangas
- ½ kg of bread flour.
- 1 spoonful of yeast (it will serve to raise).
- Salt to taste.
- 1 teaspoon of sugar.
- 2 raw eggs.
- ½ cup of water.
- Butter.
Recipe procedure.
- In a large bowl, add all ingredients (except bread flour), and mix. Add dashes of water little by little.
- Add little by little, the bread flour and form a mixture.
- Form a dough, and move it with your hands for 30 minutes. Then, with a mallet, form the cachangas, and give it the desired volume.
- Then, in a frying pan with oil, start frying the cachangas.
- Remove, and drain the oil that may have; and serve, accompanied with your tea, or hierbaluisa.