Cuajada

Cuajada is a cheese product. Traditionally it is made from ewe's milk, but now it is more often made industrially from cow's milk. It is popular in the northern regions of Spain . In Latin America it is popular in Colombia and in the Central American countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Raw warmed milk is mixed with rennet or plant extracts and left to curdle. It was traditionally made in a wooden vessel called 'kaiku' and heated with a red-hot poker, giving it a distinct faintly burned taste. Cuajada means 'curdled' in Spanish. In Basque, it is called mamia.

Cuajada is usually served as dessert with honey and walnuts or sometimes sugar, and, less often, for breakfast with fruit or honey. In Colombia, it is typically served with melado, a thick syrup made of panela. In Nicaragua salt is usually added to the cuajada, which is eaten with güirilas,