{"id":2380,"date":"2021-09-01T15:06:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2021-09-06T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T16:02:44","slug":"arepas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/01\/arepas\/","title":{"rendered":"Arepas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>J and I saw several <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arepa\">arepa<\/a> stands at a street fair. They didn&#8217;t look amazingly high quality (at least one stand was just heating up pre-packaged arepas), so J took it as inspiration to make our own!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arepas are Venezuelan and Colombian, mostly. We made the simplest variety, which is a cornmeal pancake cut in half and stuffed with mild cheese. The cornmeal has to be either pre-cooked (masarepa; the traditional way) or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nixtamalization\">nixtamalized<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masa\">masa harina<\/a>; will be slightly less fluffy) to form a dough properly. You can&#8217;t just use regular old cornmeal, but instant polenta might work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"931\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210828_172521630.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210828_172521630.jpg 931w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210828_172521630-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210828_172521630-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recipe<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>2 cups warm water<\/li><li>2 cups masarepa or masa harina<\/li><li>If using masa harina, some baking powder to add fluffiness<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Mix everything together. Let rest for 10 min. Dough should be moist and able to form balls without cracking, but not stick to your hands too much.<\/li><li>Form into patties (standard thickness is 1\/2 in). Deep fry, OR pan fry ~3 min on each side and then bake for 15 min.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J and I saw several arepa stands at a street fair. They didn&#8217;t look amazingly high quality (at least one stand was just heating up pre-packaged arepas), so J took it as inspiration to make our own! Arepas are Venezuelan and Colombian, mostly. We made the simplest variety, which is a cornmeal pancake cut in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/01\/arepas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arepas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}