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Milcao
Chiloé potato bread cakes combining mashed cooked potato with squeezed raw grated potato and lard.
About Milcao
Milcao is a traditional potato bread cake from Chile's Chiloé Archipelago. This profile follows Típico Chileno's plain baked version, without treating the fried and curanto-cooked forms as the same recipe.
Potato supplies a mild earthy flavour, enriched by savoury pork lard and salt. Combining cooked mash with squeezed raw potato gives the dough more character than an ordinary mashed-potato cake.
The cakes are compact, round and bread-like, with a lightly firm baked surface and a dense, tender centre. Fine strands of grated potato remain integrated through the paler mash.
Allergens in this recipe
Allergen details are not yet confirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Milcao
Típico Chileno's baked Chiloé Milcao.
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Potatoes: . One established potato route represents both the cooked and raw potatoes specified by the source
- Lard:
- Salt:
Origins & food traditions
Típico Chileno identifies milcao as the potato bread of Chiloé and supplies a complete baked recipe of cooked potato, raw grated and squeezed potato, lard and salt; Marca Chile independently describes milcao as a typical Chiloé dough combining mashed cooked potato with raw grated potato and notes fried, baked and curanto-cooked forms.
Countries
- Chile
- ChileCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Chilean Cuisine
- Chilote Cuisine
- Chilote CuisineCatalogue link pending review