Bocadillo con Queso

Guava Paste and Cheese

Preparation info
  • 12

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Secrets of Colombian Cooking

By Patricia McCausland-Gallo

Published 2004

  • About

Bocadillo originally came from the town of Velez in the department of Santander, a town in Colombia famous from its bocadillo wrapped in dry plantain leaves and packaged in wooden boxes called bocadillo veleño. In Colombia, especially in the coastal areas, we eat many sweet things with cheese: bananas and cheese, pineapple with cheese, and all of the fruits in syrups with cheese; in the Pacific and Andean zones, they eat sweets with Cuajad