Create allergy card
← Browse dishes

DISH RESEARCH · Dessert

Dulce de Batata

Chilled Dominican sweet-potato pudding with coconut milk, evaporated milk, cinnamon and cloves.

Dulce de Batata — illustrative food image

About Dulce de Batata

Clara Gonzalez's dulce de batata, also called jalea de batata, is a creamy Dominican sweet-potato pudding. She describes it as a classic roadside-stand dessert with little variation in its familiar preparation.

Batata, coconut milk and evaporated milk give the pudding its body and richness. Cinnamon and cloves supply warm spice, while granulated sugar provides sweetness.

The chilled dessert appears in individual bowls. Optional raisins add their chewy sweetness, and toasted coconut flakes provide a contrasting finish over the smooth, thick pudding.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Milk.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.

Explore ingredients See countries & cuisines

Ingredients in Dulce de Batata

Clara Gonzalez's Dominican dulce de batata, or jalea.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Batata, white sweet potato: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual57 local Dominican batata variety, broader sweetpotato candidate; orange sweetpotato alternate107 unselected, no unsupported botanical equivalence.
  • Coconut milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual87 named standard product, exact complete formula unknown.
  • Evaporated milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual88 dairy evaporated milk.
  • Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Cinnamon powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Clove powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • White granulated sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Raisins (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual93 explicitly optional despite unqualified method101.
  • Toasted coconut flakes (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual94 explicitly optional despite unqualified method105; prepared toasted flakes broader coconut, full product formula unknown.
  • Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual97 explicit unsalted batata boiling water, retained input despite drain.

Origins & food traditions

Countries

Cuisines & regions

AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.

Sources & references
  1. Clara Gonzalez, Dominican Cooking - Dulce de Batata or Jalea de Batata