Recipe of Homemade Bolo do caco (Madeiran bread)

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

Bolo do caco is a round bread that is traditionally cooked on a caco, a basalt stone slab. The bread is usually served simply with garlic butter and is usually eaten as a sandwich with typical Madeiran foods like octopus, meat skewers (espetada), milho frito, and also used as the bread for a typical. The "Bolo do Caco" bread is a prime exemple of Madeiran food.

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

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

The ingredients needed to make Bolo do caco (Madeiran bread):

1. {Get 375 g of Sweet potato.
2. {Make ready 375 g of Bread flour.
3. {Take 9 g of Active yeast.
4. {Make ready 220-230 ml of warm water (boil sweet potato).
5. {Make ready of Salt.
6. {Take of Butter 1 small chunk.
7. {Make ready 2 cloves of Garlic.
8. {Prepare of Flat parsley.

The "Bolo do Caco" bread has a cultural connection between the local bread and bread of Arab influence. Made with wheat flour, homemade yeast, water and salt, it is kneaded and after leavening, the dough is cut into round and. 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.

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..

Bolo do Caco is a local bread from the beautiful island of Madeira. It is a stovetop pan baked bread often served as an appetiser with garlic butter. Bolo do Caco Bread served with fresh cheese and olives, eaten in a restaurant overlooking the Marina at Funchal. Bolo Do Caco is a Madeiran flatbread with mashed sweet potato. It's a flat, circular bread, shaped like a cake.

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