Easter is the most celebrated holiday here.
The week before Easter is known as Holy Week.
No stores are open on Good Friday,
not even the grocery store!
One very old Easter tradition here is to make chipa the Wednesday or Thursday before Easter. Many "city Paraguayans" will take a trip to the country to visit their family and make chipa together!
This has become one of our new traditions also! We do our best to make good chipa though we don't have a big brick oven in the back yard to give it that Paraguayan flavor!
Mix in a blender:
1 cup milk
1 cup oil
4 eggs
100 grams of Paraguayan cheese
(this year our's came straight from the farm!)
1 1/2 tsp salt
100 grams corn flour
15 grams anise
Pour mixture into a bowl.
Add 800 grams mandioca (aka yucca) flour
and start to mix/knead by hand.
Form into little loaves or wreathes.
It is a PY tradition to let the kids make fun shapes!
Below is a little loaf.
Make light, diagonal slices along the top.
With the oven at the highest setting (ours goes to
about 450 degrees), cook each side for 7-8 minutes.
Enjoy!
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