Bolo do caco (Madeiran bread)
Bolo do caco (Madeiran bread)

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, bolo do caco (madeiran bread). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Remove the softened sweet potato from the water and keep the water for later use. Bolo do caco is a flat, circular bread, shaped like a cake and thus called bolo (Portuguese for 'cake'). It is traditionally cooked on a caco, a flat basalt stone slab.

Bolo do caco (Madeiran bread) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Bolo do caco (Madeiran bread) is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook bolo do caco (madeiran bread) using 8 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Bolo do caco (Madeiran bread):
  1. Make ready Sweet potato
  2. Get Bread flour
  3. Make ready Active yeast
  4. Take warm water (boil sweet potato)
  5. Prepare Salt
  6. Get Butter 1 small chunk
  7. Make ready Garlic
  8. Make ready Flat parsley

Hailing from Madeira, this rustic, leavened bread is prepared with wheat flour, mashed sweet potatoes, water, and salt. Traditionally baked on large basalt stone slabs, bolo do caco is typically flat and round, though it can vary in size. The "Bolo do Caco" bread is a food that establishes a link between Madeiran bread and the bread which the Hebrew people baked, as stated in the Old Testament. Made with wheat flour, homemade yeast, water and salt, it is kneaded and after raising, the dough is cut into rounded and flattened pieces.

Instructions to make Bolo do caco (Madeiran bread):
  1. Boil sweet potato in slightly salted water for 20 minutes.
  2. Remove the softened sweet potato from the water and keep the water for later use.
  3. Mash the sweet potato and let it cool down.
  4. Wait until the water that boil sweet potato to cool down to be warm and get 150ml water to mix with yeast. Leave the yeast mixture aside for 10 minutes.
  5. Add the yeast mixture into the mashed sweet potato and mix well. And then add in a tiny salt in.
  6. Mix the mashed sweet potato with the flour.
  7. Add in 80ml sweet potato water gradually in the dough and keep kneading until the texture shown as picture.
  8. Sprinkle a bit flour on the top and cover the dough by a tea towel or clingfilm and let the dough do the first 40-minute fermentation.
  9. When the dough is double sized, it’s ready for the further step.
  10. Sprinkle some flour and divide the dough into 6 small doughs. Sprinkle more flour on the top of the doughs and cover by a tea towel for 2nd 15-20 minute fermentation.
  11. Add mashed garlic, chopped parsley and salt into a soften butter and mix them well. And then put it into the fridge.
  12. Heat the pan and put one dough in. Flat the dough a bit and fry one side for 5-10 minutes (depends on the size). Make sure both sides turn into golden brown and get the hollow sound when patting the bread.
  13. Cover the ready cooked breads by a clean tea towel.
  14. When serve the bread, just slice the bread and put some garlic butter inside of the bread like a sandwich and then cut the bread into quarters. Enjoy.

The Madeiran gastronomy is traditionally tasty. Its secret consists in the use of fresh and varied ingredients, whose origin can be traced to the rich, volcanic nature of this island, abundant water, and favorable climate. From fish to meat, tropical fruits, sweets, bread (such as "Bolo do caco". There aren't enough food, service, value or atmosphere ratings for Madeira Bolo do Caco, Portugal yet. Be one of the first to write a review!

So that’s going to wrap it up with this exceptional food bolo do caco (madeiran bread) recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I’m confident that you can make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page in your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!