Appetizers
Colombian Empanadas
Corn dough shells filled with potato and shredded beef, deep fried until the outside is crackly and deep yellow…
🇨🇴 Cuisine
All 5555 recipes
Colombian recipes
Corn, beans and a plate that arrives fully loaded. 7 Colombian recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The 7 recipes cover 3 of the site’s categories, among them 3 appetisers and small plates, 3 dinners and 1 breakfast. None of them is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. For 2, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 2 easy and 5 medium.
As written, 3 are vegetarian and 4 gluten-free.
Colombian recipes — all 7 recipes
Dinner
Bandeja Paisa
The Antioquian platter: beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, minced beef, a fried egg, plantain, avocado and an arepa…
Dinner
Ajiaco
Bogotá chicken and potato soup, thickened by three kinds of potato breaking down at different rates, with guascas…
Breakfast
Arepa de Choclo
A thick, sweet corn pancake made from fresh sweetcorn, griddled in butter and folded around melted cheese. A…
Dinner
Sancocho de Gallina
A big Colombian soup of chicken with green plantain, yuca, potato and corn on the cob, simmered until everything is…
Appetizers
Aborrajados
Ripe plantain slices filled with cheese, coated in a light batter and cooked until crisp outside and soft and melted…
Appetizers
Colombian Bunuelos
Crisp, golden balls of salty white cheese, cornflour and egg, light and puffy inside, a Colombian breakfast and…