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Chancaca is a typical Bolivian, Chilean and Peruvian, warm, sweet
sauce In cooking, a sauce is a liquid, cream, or semi- solid food, served on or used in preparing other foods. Most sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavour, texture, and visual appeal to a dish. ''Sauce'' is a French wor ...
made of raw unrefined
sugar Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose Glucose is a sugar with the Chemical formula#Molecular formula, molecul ...
from sugarcane. It is often flavored with orange peel and
cinnamon Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus ''Cinnamomum''. Cinnamon is used mainly as an aromatic condiment and flavouring additive in a wide variety of cuisines, sweet and savoury dishes, biscuits, b ...
, 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 The coconut tree (''Cocos nucifera'') is a member of the palm tree family (biology), family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus ''Cocos''. The term "coconut" (or the archaic "cocoanut") can refer to the whole coconut palm, ...
candy.


See also

* List of dessert sauces


References

Peruvian cuisine Chilean sauces Bolivian cuisine Dessert sauces Types of sugar {{peru-cuisine-stub es:Chancaca