Roadside Stall · Cheese with Cane Syrup
Quesillo con Miel de Caña
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The best-known quesillo comes from Tafí del Valle, in Tucumán's highlands, where cheesemaking dates back to the Jesuit estancias of the 1700s.
Quesillo, a fresh stretched-curd cheese pressed into thin, flexible sheets, is drizzled with dark, thick cane syrup and sold at roadside stands and market stalls across Tucumán as a simple dessert or afternoon snack. The sweetness of the syrup plays against the mild, salty cheese.
Why it's made this way: Tucumán has been Argentina's main sugarcane-producing province since the 19th century, making cane syrup a defining local sweetener found on this dish almost nowhere else in the country.
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