Breakfast Street Food · Fry Bread
Hojaldras
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Despite a name borrowed from hojaldre, Spanish puff pastry, Panama's hojaldras are simple fried dough — closer to fry bread than to a delicate pastry.
A simple dough is flattened into a disc and deep-fried until it puffs up golden and crisp. It's a breakfast staple sold hot from street carts, usually eaten with fried cheese, eggs or stewed sausage, or dusted with sugar.
Why it's made this way: Frying dough in a single pot of hot oil requires no oven, making it a practical, low-equipment way for street vendors to feed a morning crowd.
Roughly what's in it
300kcal
6gprotein
40gcarbs
13gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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