Colombian Yuca Bread (Pan de Yuca)
Ingredients
- 1 cup sour tapioca starch yuca harina
- 2 cups queso fresco
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 2 eggs
- ¼ teaspoon sugar
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 450°F.
- In a food processor, place the yuca flour, cheese, sugar and baking powder. Process until well combine. Add the eggs slowly while food processor is running.
- Divide the mixture into 12 equal size portions and shape into a ball.
- Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for about 15 minutes or until golden on top. Serve warm.
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Pan de yuca is a traditional Colombian bread made with yuca flour and cheese. It is delicious with a cup of hot chocolate for breakfast or for an afternoon snack with a cup of tea or coffee.
I don’t understand it, but I can’t seem to follow a recipe. Can any of you fellow food bloggers relate to this? I think this is the main reason that I don’t like to bake, as baking doesn’t allow me as much flexibility with a recipe. This yuca bread recipe failed more than once because I didn’t follow my aunt’s recipe. After ruining a couple of batches, I figured that I had better follow her recipe. It’s OK to be creative with some dishes, but sometimes it’s not such a good idea. So, here is my aunt’s pan de yuca recipe 😉 Enjoy!
Bread Lover Mommy
I'd like to make this, but coming from England (the real England) I have no idea what queso fresco is! Could you write your recipes with English equivalents on them, please? This looks delicious!
SAGOMO
fresh hard cheese=queso fresco
Carlos
Gracias, es la mejor receta y muy bien explicada.
Rose
Hi erica! I am living here at Colombia for 3 months now and every food seems to be perfect.. I first tried pan de yuca at my grandparents' town named Paipa. It is the best place to find the best Pan de Yuca of Colombia.. I really enjoy eating eat for breakfast especially with what you said, hot cup of chocalate and an addition... cheese! It is so amazing! And its typical shape is like a bull's horn. The picture you posted is the other kind of pastry, almojabana, tastes equally delicious but I prefer Pan de yuca..Thanks for the recipe. I sure will have a great time baking and afterwards, eating it.. Thanks!
Elizabeth Amparan
All the way from Belgium. Love your site!!! I have made some recipes already with great success. Thank you for sharing because I love cooking and your list of recipes are many that I am truely going to try. Love the bread made of yuca, the arepas, the empanadas and also have made the natilla. Mmmmmmmmmm!!!
Elizabeth
Erica
Elizabeth- Thank you so much 🙂 Glad you like the site.
Elizabeth Amparan
Wow, great site and love making a lot of the recipes here.
Thanks for your passion in cooking and sharing 🙂
Elizabeth from belgium
ap269
Hi,
I made pan de yuca based on your recipe a couple days ago but had to replace the queso fresco because we don't have it here. I used grated mozarella instead, and served with a cup of hot chocolate the cheese rolls were really yummy!
ap269
Hi, this recipe is really intriguing. I can't get queso fresco here, though. What could I replace it with? I've read grated mozarella or pressed ricotta would do - what do you think?
Erica
Ap269- You can try it!
C. Montero
Hi Eric,
I have trieeto make these on a number of occasions and they fail to rise. Any suggestions? My husband says they taste right but they do not look right at all.
Thanks!
Carie
SCruz
Erica,
Thank you for this recipe. I live in NY and the only place to get Colombian bread and bunuelos is in Jackson Heights, Queens. I've had to go there with a friend all the way from the Bronx on several occasions to just buy them!
There aren't any stores around here that sell the yuca flour, so this makes me sad. However, last month I found a specialty shop and bought all four boxes, since then they have not restocked...
The pan and bunelos are absolutely delicious and I'm Puerto Rican...I've put my family onto these and we can't get enough! I am in heaven!
Thanks a million!
SC
Respondon
I make it from the prepared mix (what's that brand?...I'm not in the kitchen right now!) and even then it's kind of fussy. And the Spanish and English instructions were different, which didn't help 🙂 But since I no longer live down the street from Tia (that's dating me, I guess) it's the best I can do.
La Hawaiana
Hot pan de yuca and pan de bono anytime of day or night. I miss that about Colombia. Thanks for the recipe, I will try it soon.
Stephanie
Just made this today, they turned out wonderful. Thanks for sharing your recipe and for your blog.
Erica
Stephanie-Thank you so much for your feedback and for your wonderful comment!
Tangled Noodle
I'm not much of a baker myself but when I do bake, I tend to stick very closely to the recipe because of fear of failure! 😎 Thanks so much for sharing your aunt's recipe; this bread looks fantastic and I can't wait to try it out, especially with the hot chocolate!
Erica
Thank you all for visiting my site!
Amber
I've never even heard of this bread but I love anything with YUCA. This looks so good! Thanks for sharing your aunt's recipe!
Felisha
Yum! 🙂 I hope to see more bread recipes in the future, since it is so hard to get a good one that doesn't waste a ton of cheese!! lol I have tried the mixes-colombiana and a few others but they just aren't the same as homemade. Sometimes the directions are wrong on the box. My secret to good bread such as pandebono and buñuelos is using two different kinds of cheese-queso fresco and queso cotija. One is dry one is wetter, and it gives a good consistency. But the cotija is very salty, so I only use a little.
Erica
Thank you, Felisha!