Arepas De Queso Fritas - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups coarsely ground cornflour
1 egg yolk
3 cups water
1 teaspoon salt
cream cheese or ham, anything you want to fill them with
oil (for deep frying)

Preparation

Mix the water and the egg yolk.
In a large bowl mix the flour and the egg/water mixture.
Mix and kneed the dough for about 5 minutes until it is compact.
Cover with a damp cloth and set aside for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile heat a deep fryer to 170\u00b0C, or fill a frying pan with lots of oil and heat.
Take a small ball of the dough, the size of an egg and mold into a flat circle, about 1 cm thick.
Fry until golden brown, turning regularly.
Turn out onto crumpled absorbent paper and leave to cool slightly.
Split them open (like a pita bread) and fill with cheese, ham, butter, honey or whatever you wish. (If there is too much \"fluff\" inside, you can remove it with a spoon, leaving only the outer shell).
Serve immediately--they don't keep and don't re-heat.