Sopapilla cheesecake is a deep-fried South American pastry with sweet, savory, and filled variations. Combining sopapilla dough with cheesecake produces sopapilla cheesecake. It’s not the healthiest food, but it’s available in many restaurants offering Mexican and South American cuisine.
Sopapilla cheesecake is a popular dessert dish in South American cuisine; it seems to be especially prevalent in the cuisines of New Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The word sopapilla comes from sopaipa, a Spanish term for fried bread, and sopapilla is actually a puffy, deep-fried South American pastry, with many sweet, savory, and filled regional variations. Sweet sopapillas are eaten with honey or syrup, savory ones are eaten with mustard or salsa, and filled ones may have a filling of beans, meat, or pepper. Combining the sopapilla dough with a regular cheesecake produces the sopapilla cheesecake. There are also variations of these cheese dishes, including some that incorporate different types of cream cakes and desserts.
The ingredients needed to make sopapilla cheesecake include cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, butter, cinnamon, and dough. Instead of dough, you can buy ready-made half-moon buns. If ready-made buns are not available, they can be made by mixing together dry yeast, warm water, warm milk, sugar, flour, salt, and butter in a bowl. The resulting dough should be kneaded well until soft and smooth, and then set aside to rise for about an hour. The risen dough should then be lightly dusted with flour, rolled into a flat circle and cut into triangular sections.
For the sopapilla cheesecake filling, the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla are mixed together. This sweet filling is spread over a triangle of pastry and a second triangle of pastry is placed on top of the filling. The seams of the two sheets of dough are pressed close together and the filled pieces are set aside to rise for half an hour. The pieces are then brushed with melted butter, placed in a roasting pan and baked in the oven for approximately 20 minutes. The sopapilla cheesecake is ready when the outer crust has turned a rich golden brown.
Sopapilla cheesecake is generally available in many restaurants offering Mexican and South American cuisine; this dish doesn’t seem to appear in purely Mexican cuisine. It can be a delicious dessert, but, with its high sugar and fat content, it’s not the healthiest food around. It’s recommended that you indulge in these cheesy dishes in moderation and perhaps make or seek out healthier versions that contain low-fat cream cheese and a sugar alternative.
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