What is Pionono?

Pionono is some of the many foods found in one or the other Spanish -speaking country. The common factor between them is that they are somehow rolling during the preparation. In Spain itself, Pionono is a sweet pastry, while in South America it is a mushroom cake that rolls around sweet or salty fillings. Caribbean pionons are made of paid. There is no agreement on where the name came from, but in Spanish "Pio nono" means "pious nine" and many believe that the baker in Spain has created the name pionono for its version of sweet pastries in honor of Pope Pius IX. With a creamy mixture and spilled by sprinkling cinnamon. The combination of honey and cinnamon taste extends to at least the 10th century, during the Moorish occupation of Spain. Piononos, as they are now made, probably orina at the end of the 18th century. The same layer of sweetened cake is used for both sweet and salty fillings. Rolls used as desserts are often filled with Dulce de Leche, a strong milk caramel milk filling. Other sweet options include different wLights and fruit mixtures, jams or chocolate cream.

Savory Piononos can be made with any sandwich filling. Classic mixtures include a number of cheeses such as Swiss and ham, eggs with hard bath, roast red pepper and green olives. Mayonnaise is a common accessory together with salad, tomato and blue cheese.

In the Caribbean pionons, they have a spicy filling and the roles around the fillings are plantain, a type of banana that must be cooked before eating. Yelplantains of the low stage are peeled, cut on longitudinally, fried until they look, then plunged into circles and fill. The ends are immersed in an egg or a mixture of flour and eggs and the roles are fried on both sides to seal in the filling. In Portor, the whole Pionono is sometimes fried.

Beef fillings are popular, especially those like Picadillo, where the meat is mixed with spices, green olives and raisins. Other options include cheese, chicken lobster, shrimpor vegetable fillings. The yellow stage bananas are sweet, so like the South American salty pionono use a combination of sweet and salty taste.