Tequeños (Venezuelan Breaded Cheese Sticks)
Tequeños (Venezuelan Breaded Cheese Sticks) — a cheese recipe, 6 ingredients.
contains glutencontains dairycontains eggs
Ingredients
US
Metric
- 1 kg flour
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 kg white soft cheese
Make it lactose-friendly
- 1 kg white soft cheese → lactose-free or aged hard cheese (naturally lower lactose)
Steps
- Mix the flour, oil, egg, salt and sugar in a bowl to make a dough.
- While kneading, add 1–2 tablespoons water. Keep kneading until it does not stick to your hands.
- Let the dough rest for 1–2 hours.
- While the dough is resting, cut the cheese into finger-like strips, roughly 1 x 1 x 7 cm (½ x ½ x 3 inches).
- After the dough has rested, shape it into palm sized balls.
- Roll them out until they are ½ cm (¼–0.125 inch) thick.
- Cut the rolled-out dough into long strips that are 1½ cm (¾ inch) wide.
- Wrap the cheese strips with the dough strips.
- Make sure you cover all the cheese and seal it inside the dough, because otherwise the cheese will leak out of the dough when frying.
- After you have wrapped the cheese in dough, dust the raw tequeños with flour and deep fry them in hot oil until golden.
- Serve with guasacaca, in either its mild (green) or spicy (red) formats.
Source
Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0