All the gastronomy of Uruguay It is based on the typical Creole gastronomy, which has been transformed over the years and is also common to other countries such as Argentina, Peru, Bolivia or Chile, some of the typical products of Uruguayan gastronomy such as Creole empanadas or fried cakes are very common in countries like Paraguay or Argentina, however the original recipe usually varies from country to country.
If you want to prepare the typical Uruguayan recipe Creole cakes You need a kilo of flour, and later you must mix the flour with two eggs, a tablespoon of sugar and 100 grams of butter, then you must knead the dough well, mix all the ingredients and add warm milk until it forms a soft and light dough, you can leave rest the dough for a time of half an hour, if you want you can use 100 grams. more butter and make the puff pastry, forming the dough layer by layer.
After making the dough you will need a short dough and also an ingredient for the filling of said cakes, which can be a variety of sweet, such as quince paste or dulce de leche, you can select the classic quince paste or also if you want dulce de Sweet potato, which are the simplest elements, the next step is to stretch the dough until we have a thickness of 1 cm and then cut the dough into squares evenly.
Subsequently what you should do is cut the quince paste into small cubes and then place a piece of candy in the center of the dough and then close the cake by folding it towards the middle, so that we have a triangle, we make the repulgue, and if we wish we can paint it with water or with an egg to give it a golden color.
Cook the cakes in hot oil, and then place it on absorbent paper.
From Uruguay to the world, such as fried cake, empanada, dulce de leche, mate, barbecue, etc ... And always ´plagiarized by the Argentine little brothers ...
From Uruguay to the world, like fried cake, empanada, dulce de leche, mate, asado, etc ... And always plagiarized by the Argentine little brothers ...
or it will be the other way around ..