Arepas de Choclo (Colombian Sweet Corn Cakes with Cheese)
Colombian Arepas de Choclo are corn cakes made of sweet corn, stuffed with cheese. Sweet-and-salty, buttery and cheesy, this 7-ingredient recipe will make an easy and tasty breakfast or snack.
1/2cupwhite, precooked corn meal (for example from the brand P.A.N.; corn meal to make arepas)
milk as necessary, 0- 4 tablespoons
vegetable oil or butter for baking
slices of cheese(doble crema, campesino, cuajada in Colombia, replace with a cheese of choice, or with mozarella)
Instructions
Place corn, melted butter, whisked eggs, panela (or sugar) and salt in a food processer/blender and mix for a couple of seconds. The mixture needs to be quite liquid, and not completely smooth. It's perfect if some bigger pieces of corn are visible
Add mixture to a bowl, together with the cornmeal. Mix with a fork and add up to a couple of spoons of milk if necessary. The batter needs to be a little bit firmer than pancake batter, but more liquid than the dough of arepas or bread
Warm up butter/oil in a frying pan. Use about 1/4th of the batter to make one arepa, in size resembling an American pancake. Cook for a couple of minutes per side, until golden. You might have to cook them in batches
When you cooked all four arepas, add the cheese. Place cheese on top of one arepa, and stack a second arepa on top it, as if you were making a sandwich. Repeat for the other arepa. Place in the pan, turn down the heat and place a lid on top until the cheese starts melting and oozing out
Serve as a whole, or cut into halves. Serve while warm with a cup of coffee, tea, Colombian chocolate or aguapanela
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