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Arepas de Maiz

Ingredients

  • 2 ½ tazas de harina de maiz
  • 1 ½ tazas de harina (all purpose)
  • 1 huevo
  • 1 cda. de vainilla
  • 1 cda. de baking powder
  • ½ taza de azucar
  • a "pinch" de sal
  • 1 cda. de canela
  • 2-3 tazas de agua tibia

Directions

Mezclar todos los ingridientes de polvo. Añadir el huevo con el agua. Mezclar completo hasta que la mezcla este cremosa (que se pegue un poco a la cuchara). Dejar que la mezcla se enfrie de 3 a 5 horas para que el baking powder funcione. Echar en una caserola pequeña aceite. Freirlas en el aceiete hasta que esten doraditas, tienen que quedar en forma de bolitas.

Recipe sent by: Janis Quiles from Worcester.


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Find recipes like this and more in the recipe book Puerto Rican Cookery by Carmen Aboy Valldejuli. My mother gave me this recipe book on my 18th birthday and it has been my staple recipe book ever since.






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