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Kiveve
Kiveve: creamy orange squash purée from Corrientes with milk, fresh cheese and a little cornmeal
Kiveve (also written quibebe) is Guaraní food, cooked across Corrientes and Paraguay as a side for grilled meat or a supper on its own: ripe squash is simmered with onion until it falls apart, then thickened with a spoonful of cornmeal and enriched with milk and fresh cheese until it is smooth, orange and as soft as polenta, slightly sweet and slightly salty. Correntinos often serve it with chipá or sopa paraguaya on the side. The cornmeal is easy to get wrong: added all at once to a hot pot, it clumps into dry little lumps, so slake it first in cold milk and pour it in while stirring. Queso fresco or queso criollo is usually made with animal rennet; choose a vegetarian fresh cheese if needed. Chef's tip: use the deepest orange squash you can find, ideally a ripe Argentine anco or a kabocha; a pale squash gives a watery, bland kiveve.
- Total time
- 40 min
- Difficulty
- easy
- Serves
- 4
Ingredients
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Method
0/6 doneStep 1: Heat 2 tbsp sunflower oil in a heavy pot over a medium heat and cook 1 onion until soft and pale gold.
6 minStep 2: Add 2 ¼ lb orange squash (anco, butternut or kabocha) and ¾ cup water, cover and simmer, stirring now and then, until the squash collapses when pressed with a spoon.
18 minStep 3: Mash the squash in the pot with a potato masher until smooth.
Step 4: Whisk 1 ¾ oz fine cornmeal into the cold 1 cup milk with 1 tsp sugar and ¾ tsp salt until there are no lumps.
Step 5: Pour the milk mixture into the squash, stirring constantly, and cook over a low heat until thick and creamy and the raw cornmeal taste has gone.
6 minStep 6: Stir in 5 ½ oz queso fresco or queso criollo and keep stirring until it softens into strings. Serve hot.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 270 kcal
- Protein
- 11 g
- Carbs
- 31 g
- Fat
- 12 g
- Fibre
- 4 g
Nutrition values are estimates.
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Good to know
- How long does kiveve take?
- About 40 minutes in total: 10 minutes to prepare and 30 minutes to cook.
- How many people does it serve?
- 4 as written. Change the servings above the ingredients and every amount scales to match.
- Is it vegetarian?
- Yes. It has no meat or fish.
- Is it gluten free?
- Yes, as written. Check the labels on stock, sauces and spice mixes, which sometimes contain gluten.
- What can I use instead of onion?
- 2 shallots per onion.
- What can I use instead of milk?
- Oat, soy or almond milk, same amount (use unsweetened for savoury dishes).
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