Colombia recipes
Recipes from Colombia: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Colombian Arepas: Thin Griddled Corn Bread with Hogao
A home recipe for Colombian arepas made thin with white masarepa and served with hogao. How to simmer hogao, how arepas differ by region, how masarepa differs from ordinary cornmeal, how to fix problems, storage, and how to serve them with breakfast and bean dishes.
Arroz con Coco: Coconut Rice from Colombia's Caribbean Coast
A recipe for arroz con coco, the coconut rice that belongs on every table in Cartagena on Colombia's Caribbean coast. Coconut milk is cooked down into a caramel-colored titoté, then long-grain rice and raisins are cooked in it. It covers cooking it down without scorching, white versus black, and pairing it with fried fish.
Sancocho de Gallina: Colombian Chicken Stew with Green Plantain and Yuca
Sancocho de gallina from Colombia's Valle del Cauca, for 4: bone-in chicken and oxtail, green plantain broken by hand, and yuca. Regional differences, substitutes, accompaniments, fixes, storage and shopping notes.
Ajiaco Bogotano: Bogotá's Chicken and Potato Soup
How to make ajiaco the Bogotá way. Covers building thickness with three kinds of potato, chicken, corn, guascas, serving with capers and cream, substitutes and the ingredients you cannot replace, causes of failure, refrigerator storage, and serving it with avocado and white rice, all organized for home cooks.
Bocadillo (Colombian Guava Paste): Recipe and Serving Guide
How to make bocadillo, Colombia's sliceable guava sweet: simmering ripe guava, straining out the seeds, cooking with sugar and panela to 104–106°C, the leaf-wrapped Vélez style, serving with white cheese, frozen puree swaps, fixes and storage.
Mute: Colombian Hominy Soup from Santander
How to make mute, a hominy and meat soup from Santander, Colombia. Beef, pork, tripe, beans, and root vegetables, organized as a pressure-cooker version that is easy in a home kitchen, with annatto, substitutes, heat control, how it is eaten locally, and storage.