DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
Quimbolitos
Pacheco’s raisin quimbolitos use a butter-and-egg batter with orange zest, portioned onto achira leaves and cooked in a tamalera.
About Quimbolitos
Research draft based on the references below. These notes describe particular recipes and presentations; ingredient connections are still being reviewed.
Chef Alejandro Pacheco’s quimbolitos, published by the Asociación de Chefs del Ecuador, are raisin-filled cakes portioned onto achira leaves and cooked in a tamalera. The source locates this recipe in Cotopaxi and describes quimbolitos as popular in Ecuador and southern Colombia.
Butter and sugar are creamed together. Yolks from the listed three eggs are incorporated one at a time while beating at medium speed.
Milk and supplied orange zest are added, followed by the listed flour and baking powder. The mixture is beaten for about three minutes and reserved.
The egg whites are beaten to peaks, then folded gently into the reserved batter. The listed Spanish anise and raisins are mixed in.
Sixty-gram portions are placed onto the achira leaves and cooked in the tamalera for thirty minutes. This raisin version follows the source’s plain route, bringing butter, eggs and orange zest together inside the leaf-supported cakes.
Ingredients in Quimbolitos
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- Wheat flourbase
- Cow Milkbinder
- Sugarsweetener
- Raisinsfilling
- Banana Leafcoating
- Buttercooking medium
- Eggbinder
- Batterbase
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Origins & food traditions
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- Countries & places
- Ecuador, Colombia
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