Colombian gastronomy varies greatly by region, with dishes originating from indigenous, European, African, and mestizo influences. While there is no single national dish, arepas and sancocho are widely representative. Core foods include tubers, cereals, meats, vegetables, fruits, legumes. Regional cuisines highlight ingredients like potatoes, guasca, seafood, bananas, yams. Dishes include the paisa tray from Antioquia, Bogota's ajiaco, Valle del Cauca's atollado, and the diverse sancochos of the Caribbean Coast made with ingredients like fish, shellfish, turtles. Traditional snacks and swe
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Colombian Gastronomy
Colombian gastronomy varies greatly by region, with dishes originating from indigenous, European, African, and mestizo influences. While there is no single national dish, arepas and sancocho are widely representative. Core foods include tubers, cereals, meats, vegetables, fruits, legumes. Regional cuisines highlight ingredients like potatoes, guasca, seafood, bananas, yams. Dishes include the paisa tray from Antioquia, Bogota's ajiaco, Valle del Cauca's atollado, and the diverse sancochos of the Caribbean Coast made with ingredients like fish, shellfish, turtles. Traditional snacks and swe
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Colombian gastronomy
Colombia's gastronomy varies among its different regions: Antioqueña,
Costeña, Cundiboyacence, Tolimense-Opita, Nariñense, Santander, Pacific, Valluna, Llanera and Amazonian. Although there is no consensus regarding a single dish that represents all of Colombian gastronomy, the arepa and sancocho stand out as the most representative. Other outstanding regional dishes are the paisa tray, the Bogota ajiaco, the Tolima suckling pig and the coastal cheese mote, among others. The Colombian diet is tubers, particularly potatoes, cassava and yams; meats such as beef, chicken, pork, fish and different forest animals (wild) depending on the region; cereals, mainly corn and rice; vegetables such as onion, garlic, chili and tomato; fruits such as banana or banana, watermelon, passion fruit; legumes such as beans, peas, lentils and chickpeas. Colombia has a great variety of fruits, many considered exotic, common in Colombian forests and fields. The climate and geography also favor a great variety of crops, as well as species of fish from both freshwater and sea. In the Antioquia region, apart from international gastronomy, traditional gastronomy deals with dishes that were born and developed in rural contexts isolated from the rest of the country for generations, which have survived the processes of industrialization, urbanism and globalization. The Paisa Tray. The typical Antioqueño dish is made up of a tray with beans, rice, egg, slices of ripe fruit, pork rinds, ground meat, blood sausage and avocado; The gastronomy of Bogotá and the Cundiboyacense highlands arises from the Muisca indigenous people and European traditions. The Muiscas consumed mazamorras de mazamorras and mazamorras de papa as traditional foods seasoned with guasca to give the spicy flavor. With the arrival of Europeans, chicken and other condiments were added that transformed the porridge into pots and then developed different types of popular dishes and soups such as ajiaco, sancocho, Asado. the mazamorra, tripe, etc. Potatoes and guasca are indigenous ingredients of the Andean region and specifically of the area today included by Cundinamarca, Boyacá and part of the Santanderes. Valle del Cauca cuisine was created in the center of Valle del Cauca in the vicinity of Buga and Cartago. Valle del Cauca cuisine originated from the cuisine of the Cauca Grande in Popayán and includes ingredients from the cuisine of the Pacific coast. In 2005, Unesco designated the city of Popayán as the first city of gastronomy due to its variety and significance for RICE intangible heritage of Colombians. The ATOLLADO Cauca cuisine was selected for maintaining its traditional methods of preparation through oral tradition. The dishes of the Caribbean Coast vary in preparation and ingredients by region and incorporate the traditions of indigenous, European, black and mestizo cultures. There are ingredients such as pigeon pea soup with sea and river fish, seafood, beef, chicken, salted meat. pork, bush animals, cassava, banana, yams, legumes, derived from milk, rice, corn and native fruits. The most popular dish in the region is the sancocho that varies in preparation and ingredients: beef, fish, shellfish, turtles, hen, goat, deer, among other native species. Egg arepas. Veal a la llanera Boiled gumarra Cachapas of tender corn Beech Creole Carapacho from Morrocoy Chanfaina Dulce de Huevo from Terecay Empantalonao from Morrocoy or Galápago Stew from Curitos Criollo minced beef a la llanera. Pisillo de Chigüiro or ground Chigüiro Pisillo de Cola de Baba Sancocho Criollo de Cachicamo Baba egg omelette Amasijos Las pambasas (traditional bread). Las allullas (traditional sweet bread). Flour empanadas with stew based on cooked rice and peas, (the compound stew can vary infinitely). Never with potato-based stew. (See empanada in Colombia) Añejo empanadas with stew based on cooked rice and peas, (the compound stew can vary infinitely). Never with potato-based stew. (See empanada in Colombia) The puff pastry or flour tortillas Cheese fingers Cheese cake (cakes made in soft sweet puff pastry) The ears (solid puff pastry and sugar) The berlinas (kind of donut or donut) Drinks Boiled ones: Hot drinks made with fruit juice, usually lulo, blackberry, or passion fruit, and ochapil brandy type liquor. Canelazos: The previous drink, prepared with cinnamon infusion.