Around The World Cultural Food Festival – FREEDOM PLAZA, downtown DC
Saturday, August 18, 2018, 11 AM to 7 PM
Breakfast foods from around the world
COLOMBIA
Chocolate santafereño
A simple, but very lovely Colombian breakfast spread is chocolate santafereño. In Colombia, one of the birthplaces of cacao, sweet hot chocolate is accompanied by savory cheese. While the cacao bean is native to Central and South America, it took a while for chocolate santafereño to become a specialty of Colombia’s chilly Andean regions.
Colombians love nothing better than dipping a special, melting cheese into a steaming hot mug of hot chocolate. This hot chocolate recipe is something you just have to try. Columbian Hot Chocolate with Cheese is creamy, rich, and the best part is the melty cheese. Pan de yuca (a large, flat cassava cheese bread) and almojábanas (a smaller, round cheese bread) are both traditionally topped with even more cheese.
Need to Know
While it might be tempting to go for an extravagant cheese in your chocolate, a simple one is best. A plain white cheese tastes great and doesn’t dissolve into the chocolate.
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