chipa almidón

Chipa de almidón is a baked cheese bread whose dough is based on cassava starch. In a recipe shared by Ña Mirtha of the Los Delfines food stall, the starch is combined with grated cheese, fresh cheese, eggs, milk and butter or pork fat. Her preparation also includes baking powder and salt.^[1]

The ingredients are worked into a dough before baking in a hot oven. Mirtha suggests anise as an optional flavouring and mentions lining the baking surface with a banana leaf. She distinguishes the starch-based dough from chipa mestizo, which replaces part of the starch with maize flour.^[1]