DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
Cafunga
Also known as: Cafunga de Barlovento
Banana, coconut and wheat parcels baked in banana leaves.
About Cafunga
Gastroguía records María Lourdes Chivico’s cafunga at Hacienda La Ceiba in Cumbo, Barlovento. She describes a sweet banana-and-coconut parcel that she has prepared and eaten throughout her life, using wheat flour and a banana-leaf wrapper.
Banana and grated coconut give the mixture its fruit flavour, with cloves providing spice. Cinnamon and sweet anise are offered as optional additions to this household preparation.
The mixture is shaped into small leaf-wrapped parcels and baked. Butter and cheese are suggested accompaniments, while the account also describes the family serving cafunga with a chocolate drink.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten).
Optional additions: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Cafunga
María Lourdes Chivico's Cumbo cafunga, recorded by Gastroguía.
- Manzano bananaBase
- Wheat flourBinder
- Grated coconutBase
- ClovesSeasoning
- Banana leavesCooking medium
- CinnamonSeasoning · Optional
- Sweet aniseSeasoning · Optional
- ButterAccompaniment · Optional
- CheeseAccompaniment · Optional
- Prepared chocolate drinkAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Manzano banana: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual9 manzano option selected over titiaro; broader banana mapping, cultivar retained in name and no plantain substitution. Not overly ripe as source specifies.
- Wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Literal9 harina de trigo confirms Wheat.
- Grated coconut: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual9/14 pulpa rallada, broader coconut candidate.
- Cloves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual9 clavo de especia; retained though abbreviated mixing14 does not repeat spice.
- Banana leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual9/14 roasted leaf food-contact wrapping.
- Cinnamon (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit optional10, form unspecified.
- Sweet anise (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit optional10 anís dulce; broader anise identity, exact form unprovided.
- Butter (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual10 optional accompaniment, dairy butter confirms Milk.
- Cheese (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual10 optional accompaniment, type/full formula unspecified; Milk positive.
- Prepared chocolate drink (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual15 household chocolate drink from own cacao; full drink formula unprovided, no invented milk/sugar/water allocation.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Venezuela
- VenezuelaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Barlovento Cuisine
- Afro-Venezuelan Barlovento CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.