DISH RESEARCH · Bread
Cunape
Also known as: Cuñapé
Round starch-and-cheese breads with eggs, butter and milk, with optional cooked cassava.
About Cunape
Cuñapé is a small cheese bread associated with Santa Cruz in eastern Bolivia. The municipal culture and tourism recipe combines starch, grated cheese, eggs, butter and milk, with cooked cassava as an optional addition.
Cheese gives the bread its savoury dairy character, while butter and milk enrich the dough. Coffee is a customary optional accompaniment.
The breads are rounded and expand as they bake, developing a coloured surface. Their compact shape makes them easy to share as part of Santa Cruz’s horneados tradition.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Egg.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Cunape
Santa Cruz municipality’s baked cuñapé.
- StarchBase
- Grated cheeseBase
- EggsBinder
- Cooked cassavaBase · Optional
- ButterCooking medium
- MilkLiquid
- Prepared coffeeAccompaniment · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Starch: . The botanical species of the starch is unspecified.
- Grated cheese: . Cheese type, maturity and product formula are unspecified.
- Eggs:
- Cooked cassava (optional): . Broader cassava-root candidate for the already cooked input; upstream cooking formula is not given.
- Butter: . Shared dough butter and baking-tray grease.
- Milk:
- Prepared coffee (optional): . Broader brewed-coffee candidate; complete preparation and any additions are unprovided.
Origins & food traditions
Cuñapé belongs to the horneados tradition of Santa Cruz. The city’s municipal culture and tourism department presents this baked version and notes its customary pairing with coffee.
Cuisines & regions
- Cruceño Cuisine
- Bolivian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Santa Cruz lowland cuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.