Chile

🇨🇱Chile

Alfajores

Two cookies filled with manjar (dulce de leche), sometimes coated in chocolate or powdered sugar, a beloved Chilean treat.

🇧🇴Lima, Bolivia

Anticuchos

Grilled skewers of marinated beef heart, a street food with pre-Columbian roots adapted during colonial times.

🇨🇱Chile

Arrollado Huaso

Rolled pork flank stuffed with herbs and spices, a traditional Chilean country dish, tender and well-seasoned.

🇦🇷Buenos Aires, Argentina

Asado

Argentina's national barbecue: a social ritual of grilling beef ribs, sausages, offal, and other cuts over wood or charcoal. The asador seasons only with salt and serves with chimichurri and salsa criolla.

🇨🇱Chile

Ave Mayo

Shredded chicken sandwich with mayonnaise, a simple and popular Chilean sandwich, moist and comforting.

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Barros Jarpa

Ham and melted cheese sandwich, named after Ernesto Barros Jarpa, a simple and classic Chilean grilled sandwich.

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Barros Luco

Hot sandwich with beef steak and melted cheese, named after President Ramón Barros Luco, a classic Chilean sandwich.

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Bean Soup

Sopa de porotos

Simple bean soup, often with vegetables, a comforting Chilean country dish, hearty and nourishing, traditional.

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Bean Stew

Porotos granados

Summer stew with cranberry beans, corn, squash, tomatoes, and basil, a seasonal Chilean favorite, fresh and creamy.

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Beans with Corn Paste

Porotos con mazamorra

Bean stew where corn is blended to a paste, a traditional Chilean central dish, creamy and hearty, seasonal.

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Beans with Reins

Porotos con riendas

Bean stew with spaghetti, squash, and sausage, a hearty Chilean country dish, creamy and comforting, traditional.

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Berlín

Chilean version of Berliner doughnut filled with manjar, a popular sweet treat, light and generous, fresh and fried.

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Blood Sausage

Prietas

Chilean blood sausage made with pork blood, spices, and sometimes rice or vegetables, a traditional asado accompaniment.

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Borgoña

Red wine mixed with chopped strawberries and sugar, similar to sangria, a refreshing Chilean summer drink.

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Brazo de Reina

Rolled sponge cake filled with dulce de leche, a traditional Chilean dessert, light and sweet, festive.

🇦🇷Patagonia, Argentina

Calafate Berry

Calafate

A small, dark-blue Patagonian berry from the calafate shrub, eaten fresh or in jams, ice cream, and cocktails. Local legend says whoever eats calafate will return to Patagonia.

🇧🇴Potosí, Bolivia

Calapurca

Kalapurka

A pre-Hispanic Andean soup of corn, meat, and potatoes thickened by a heated stone, prepared in highland Potosí and Arica during cold-weather celebrations.

🇨🇱Chile

Caldillo de Congrio

Hearty fish soup made with conger eel, onions, garlic, tomatoes, carrots, and cream, a Chilean coastal specialty.

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Calzones Rotos

Fried pastry strips dusted with powdered sugar, twisted into distinctive shape, a traditional Chilean dessert, crispy and sweet.

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Carbonada

Beef and vegetable stew with potatoes, carrots, and corn, often made from cazuela leftovers, hearty and thick.

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Carménère

Chile's signature red grape variety, originally from Bordeaux, rediscovered in Chile in 1994, produces distinctive peppery wines.

🇨🇱Araucanía, Chile

Catuto

Mapuche flatbread made from wheat or corn flour, unleavened and traditional, a sacred indigenous food, simple and hearty.

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Cazuela

Traditional stew with meat, potatoes, squash, green beans, corn, and rice in clear broth, served in clay pot, a Chilean classic.

🇵🇪Lima, Peru

Ceviche

Fresh raw fish cured in lime juice with red onion, aji amarillo, and cilantro. Peru's national dish.

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Chacarero

Steak or pork sandwich with green beans, tomato slices, and hot chili peppers, a hearty Chilean farm-style sandwich.

🇧🇴La Paz, Bolivia

Chairo

Chairo paceño

An Altiplano soup with lamb or beef, chuño (freeze-dried potatoes), carrots, onions, and herbs, a smoky and hearty classic.

🇧🇴Bolivia

Chancaca

A Bolivian unrefined cane sugar block, used in desserts and drinks

🇨🇱Chile

Chancho en Piedra

Variation of pebre with more sauce-like consistency, ground in stone mortar, a traditional Chilean salsa, smooth and fresh.

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Chanchoca

A rustic Chilean breakfast stew of pork, chicharrón, eggs, and potatoes, especially in the countryside.

🇨🇱Los Lagos, Chile

Chapalele

Chiloé potato dumpling made with cooked potato, flour, and lard, cooked in curanto or oven, soft and hearty.

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Charquicán

Stew originally made with charqui (dried meat), now with ground beef, potatoes, pumpkin, and corn, topped with fried egg.

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Cheese Empanada

Empanada de queso

Empanada filled with melted cheese, typically chanco or mantecoso, a popular fried or baked Chilean snack.

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Chicken with Peas

Pollo arvejado

Chicken stewed with green peas in tomato sauce, a comforting Chilean home-cooked dish, tender and creamy.

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Chilean Abalone

Locos

Chilean abalone, traditionally served boiled with mayonnaise and garlic-parsley, a prized and rare shellfish.

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Chilean Guava

Murtilla

Murtilla is a small native Chilean berry with tart, aromatic flavor, eaten fresh or made into preserves, syrups, and desserts.

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Chilean Strawberry

Frutilla

Chilean strawberry, particularly the native Fragaria chiloensis, smaller and more flavorful than commercial varieties.