Marquesitas

As tradition built it

Marquesitas

Makes 12 · 1 hour

Ingredients

• 500g flour to 500ml water, with sugar and evaporated milk wafer batter, for a thin, crisp rolled wafer
• 2 tbsp per wafer (350g for a batch) queso de bola, shredded
• 1 to 2 tbsp condensed milk, Nutella or fruit, for modern fillings

Method

1. Cook the wafer batter into a thin, crisp wafer and roll it.
2. Fill with shredded queso de bola.
3. In modern versions, add condensed milk, Nutella or fruit.

What a modern chef changes

Dehydrated cheese, sous vide condensed milk, direct-heat caramelisation

Method

1. Dehydrate a portion of the shredded queso de bola briefly before folding it in, concentrating its savoury edge against the wafer's sweetness.
2. Make a version of condensed milk in-house by reducing full-fat milk slowly and gently, sous vide at a controlled low temperature over several hours, for a cleaner, less cloying result than a tinned version.
3. Finish the rolled wafer briefly under direct Big Green Egg heat rather than a domestic grill, for real, fast caramelisation on the exterior in the seconds before the cheese inside can overmelt.