Market Stall · Cornbread Cake
Sopa Paraguaya
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Despite the name, it's not a soup at all; a popular Paraguayan legend says a cook for 19th-century president Carlos Antonio López added too much corn flour to his soup and baked the result.
A thick, moist cake of cornmeal, cheese, onion, and eggs, baked in large trays and sold by the slice at market stalls and roadside food stands across Misiones. It's eaten as a snack or side, never as a liquid soup.
Why it's made this way: Misiones' proximity to Paraguay across the border river brought this cornmeal specialty into the province's own street-food repertoire alongside chipá.
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