A sampling of traditional bread recipes from all over South America. Find recipes for holiday breads, favorite everyday breads, and breads with unusual ingredients and flavors.
Photos with links to recipes for a variety of South American bread.
These breads from Brazil, Colombia, and Paraguay have many things in common, but each one is unique and calls for very specific ingredients. Learn about the specialy ingredients in these popular breads and how to find them.
This is a moist, high protein, wholesome bread. It has nutty texture that comes from the cooked grains of quinoa. It keeps very well, and is excellent toasted.
A quick and easy bread machine recipe for bread made with the nutritious Andean grain called quinoa.
These sweet whole wheat dinner rolls are made with cooked quinoa, a high protein grain from the Andes.
Cachitos are a Venezuelan breakfast treat - a delicious crescent roll filled with ham.
These delicious cheese rolls from Brazil (pao de queijo) are made with cassava (tapioca) flour, which gives them their distinctive taste and texture. They're also gluten free.
Pandebono is delicious cheese bread from Colombia made from cornmeal (masarepa) and tapioca flour, as well as farmer's cheese and eggs.
Serve this dense, savory corn bread with soup or stew, or enjoy it toasted with butter.
Fainá is an Italian-style flatbread made from chickpea (garbanzo) flour that is popular in Uruguay and Argentina.
A cheesy, flavorful cornbread with lots of South American flavor.
This recipe for potato rolls makes soft, slightly sweet dinner rolls. The mashed potatoes added to the dough help keep the rolls soft for several days.
Soft rolls with crumbled bacon bits inside and out, perfect for sandwiches.
Arepas con huevo are delicious fried corncakes, filled with an egg. Much better than an egg mcmuffin - they'll warm you up and keep you going all morning.
Arepas are corn griddle cakes made with a special ground corn. These arepas feature sweet corn and queso fresco.
This easy recipe for homemade cinnamon rolls uses two kinds of potatoes - regular white potatoes and sweet potatoes. It's definitely worth the extra effort - the cinnamon rolls are soft and tender and stay that way for several days.
Filled with dried pineapple and golden raisins, these scones are sweetened with brown sugar and cream of coconut, and topped with a tart passionfruit glaze.
This very moist banana bread gets great flavor from sweet potatoes, coconut, and candied nuts.
This warm cinnamon pumpkin bread will make your house smell wonderful as it bakes.
The tropical flavors of coconut and guava come together in these wonderful biscuits.
These flavorful coconut muffins have the perfect sweetness for a breakfast muffin.
Anis is a popular ingredient in South American desserts and baked goods. These small, slightly sweet rolls have a soft texture, and make a great afternoon snack with tea or coffee.
These corn cakes from Venezuela and Colombia are made from pre-cooked corn flour, water, and salt and cooked on a griddle.
These corn cakes are cooked in butter on a griddle. They're crispy on the outside, soft and cheesy on the inside, and full of corn flavor.
Roti is a grilled flatbread, and there are many variations of roti in the cuisines of Suriame, Guyana, and French Guiana.
Dhal Puri is an East Indian-style flatbread with a filling of seasoned lentils.
Onions, peppers, cornmeal and queso fresco cheese make these savory muffins a great addition to the dinner table.
Mango blueberry muffins combine the fresh tropical flavor of mango with blueberries and lime.
These muffins have two delicious tropical flavors folded into the batter: pineapple and passion fruit. They are topped with chopped Brazil nuts, brown sugar, and a sweet passion fruit glaze.
Chock full of nutritious tropical fruits and nuts, while low in fat and high in fiber, these muffins will keep you going all morning long.
