I have to confess that I was not a fan of “Cachitos de Jamon”! But as the saying goes: You do not know what you have until you lose it and thank goodness for this recipe. By the way, Cachitos de Jamon is how we called these delicious Ham Crescents in Venezuela. How this recipe was born was totally accidental. I was trying to make pretzels, and when my daughter tried them and she told me: “mami this dough taste like “cachitos”. So I cut some ham I had in the refrigerator and rolled them as a cachito and BAM! She was totally right. These are not just any cachitos but the best cachitos ever.
In Venezuelan, there is a bakery on every corner (I think I’ve mentioned it before). And when I say every corner I mean it literally. Every corner! … So the smell of freshly baked bread is something I grew up with and I love it. I remember how every Sunday morning my husband used to go out to buy breakfast at our closest bakery. He would come back home with empanadas, pastries, fresh bread … you know everything very light hahaha. That was a perfect breakfast for us and also it was a great way to start our day. However, cachitos were never my first choice when it came to breakfast. Looking back, I realize that what I did not like was the kind of ham they used to make the cachitos. It was a very fatty type of ham. But in this homemade version, I can say that the cachitos have a new fan. Of course, I always serve them along with “café con leche”.
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