At home challenge: Cooking up a culture experience (South America)
- Amelia
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min read
South America and Central America have a variety of recipes that will bring there culture to your kitchen.
Cholado Colombianos (Colombia)
This is a drink, dessert, and treat wrapped up into one cup. It originates from the Valle del Cauca region in Colombia. It consists of crushed ice, fresh fruit, condensed milk, passion fruitl, and Colombian blackberry syrup, and is topped with shredded coconut and a maraschino cherry. Since Colombia is so close to the equator, this treat is used as a way to stay cool. Experience this and make it following the recipe at https://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/cholados-colombianos-colombian-cholados/
Sopa De Frijoles (Honduras)
Beans are a common ingredient in lots of South America countries. Beans are a cheap, coomon, protein packed ingredien making it great to use in cooking. This dish in an example where beans are the star of the dish. This soup is simmered slowly allowing all the flavors to blend together into a cohesive dish. Beans, spices, garlic, cloves, onions, and peppers are a few of the ingredients in this meal. Create this dish at https://hispanickitchen.com/recipes/sopa-de-frijoles-hondurena-slow-cooker-honduran-bean-soup/
Curried Mango (Trinidad and Tobago)
This islands cooking is known as a carnival full of flavors, exotic ingredient, and its broad variety. The island itself has some of the most diverse flora and fauna on the planet. Recipes from this country, feature these foods including this dishes main ingredient of mango. This dish combines the sweet mango with the savory curry. Taste this dish by following the recipe at
Tembleque (Puerto Rico)
“Tembleque” translates to “wiggly.” True to this, this dish is a coconut pudding that is a gelatin like substance. It is one of the most renowned desserts in Puerto Rico and rightly so. The coconut flavor combined with cinnamon creates a unique one of a kind dish. Learn how to make the dish at https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/238693/tembleque-puerto-rican-coconut-pudding/
Boucanage (French Guinea)
This is a method of how to prepare meat and fish. This country lies along the coast, offering a plentiful amount of fish. To prepare the meat or fish, gently wrap it in bananna leaves. The meat wrapped in leaves are then slowly roasted over an open fire. Learn more about this dish at
Chilean Empanadas (Chile)
Although Empanadas can be found all around the world (particularly in Latin American countries) each empanad has a unique flavor. The empanad originated from Spain before finding its way to South America and Chile. The word “empanadar” means enbreaded. True to this, the empanada is meat, corn, and other ingredients all stuffed into a bread pocket. The Chilean empanada that is most popular is called Pino. The pino is filled with meat, onions, hard-boiled eggs, black olives, and raisins. This strange combination creates an orgianal flavor and can be ordered all across Chile. Create it following the recipe at https://www.curiouscuisiniere.com/empanadas-de-pino/
Churchills (Costa Rica)
This snow cone treat was created in the city of Puntarenas in the 1940s. It is named after the businessman nicknamed “Quinico.” He would go and get snow cones all across town. He would mix a variety of strange flavors so they wanted to create one flavor out of it. He resembled Winston Churchill, and so they decided to name him after the flavor. Today these snow ones can be found throughout the streets of Costa Rica. Learn more about it at https://mytanfeet.com/about-cr/costa-rican-copo/
Bolinhas de arroz (Brazil)
These fried rice balls are similar to hush puppies, but with rice. They can be found throughout the Southeast coast of Brazil. They are a common street food or appetizer. Other ingredients in the dish include cheese, parsley, onion, and spices. Sinew all these foods can be easily found in a kitchen, this dish is a great way to make a dish in a pinch. Make the dish by following the recipe at
Agua de Jamaica (Jamaica)
This means Hibiscus tea and is made out of hibiscus flowers, berries, sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and other ingredient. This sweet tea is used as a way to cool off especially on an island hot like Jamaica. It has a bright color and it has exotic flavors, making it a drink you want to try! Learn about different types of this drink and how to make them at
Chipa guasu (Paraguay)
This is famous side dish that is served throughout Paraguay. It has an interesting combination of corn, water, onions, eggs, cinnamon, milk, and cheese as it’s ingredients. This dish was created during the 1850s. A war was defistsing the country and since food was scare, people began to make This dish out of corn. Corn is plentiful in Paraguay, making it a popular ingredient. The word chipa refers to a corn based cake. Guasu means it is large. Therefor it is a large corn based cake. Learn more on how to make it at https://www.196flavors.com/paraguay-chipa-guazu/
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