DISH RESEARCH · Bread
Bollo de Coco
Corn-husk parcels of fresh maize mixed with freshly extracted coconut milk.

About Bollo de Coco
Paola describes this fresh-maize bollo with coconut as a traditional Panamanian preparation. Tender corn is ground into a soft mixture, while grated coconut is squeezed to provide the milk that enriches it.
Salt seasons the corn and coconut mixture, with sugar optional for a lightly sweet touch. Clean corn husks hold the portions and are tied closed before cooking.
The wrapped bollos are boiled, then rested briefly before their ties and husks are opened. Paola offers them hot or at room temperature for breakfast or an afternoon snack.
Allergens in this recipe
Allergen details are not yet confirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Bollo de Coco
Paola’s Panamanian fresh-maize bollo with coconut.
- Fresh maize kernelsBase
- CoconutBase
- SaltSeasoning
- SugarSweetener · Optional
- Corn husksCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- WaterCooking medium
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Fresh maize kernels: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual7/14 maiznuevo tender maize, ground here not prepared driedcornmasa.
- Coconut: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual8/15 wholecoconut grated and pressed through cloth into own milk, full supplied extraction expanded; no separate opaque coconutmilk ingredient.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Sugar (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual10/17 explicitly optional.
- Corn husks: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual12/18 cleaned food-contact wrapping husks, no cane/banana alternative borrowed.; Ingredient page link pending verification or catalogue review
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual20 boilingwater explicit, no extractionwater invented when15 only squeezes coconutpulp.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Panama
- PanamaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Panamanian Cuisine
- Panamanian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
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