Chancaca is a typical Bolivian, Chilean and Peruvian, warm, sweet
sauce
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made of raw unrefined
sugar
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from sugarcane. It is often flavored with
orange peel and
cinnamon
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, and is consumed on
sopaipillas or
picarones.
Chancaca is also a synonym for
panela
Panela () or rapadura (Portuguese pronunciation: ) is an unrefined whole cane sugar, typical of Latin America. It is a solid form of sucrose derived from the boiling and evaporation of sugarcane juice. Panela is known by other names in Lati ...
, the unrefined sugar used to make chancaca syrup. Chancaca can be used to prepare
chicha de jora
Chicha de jora is a corn beer or chicha prepared by Germination, germinating maize, extracting the malt sugars, boiling the Wort (brewing), wort, and fermenting it in large vessels (traditionally huge earthenware vats) for several days. The proces ...
, Peruvian maize beer.
In Colombia,
chancacas are a traditional
coconut
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candy.
See also
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List of dessert sauces
References
Peruvian cuisine
Chilean sauces
Bolivian cuisine
Dessert sauces
Types of sugar
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