Paraguay

🇵🇾Paraguay

Mbeju

Mbejú

Traditional flatbread made with cassava starch, cheese, and fat, crispy outside and tender inside, gluten-free.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Molasses Cake

Torta de Miel

Dense dark cake built on miel negra (raw cane molasses) rather than honey, a legacy of the Mennonite and German ovens of the Chaco.

🇦🇷Argentina

Pacú

A large river fish from the Argentine northeast (Entre Ríos, Corrientes), grilled or baked. Prized for its tender, white flesh, often served with mandioca and salsa criolla.

🇦🇷Argentina

Pancho

Pancho completo

The Argentine hot dog: a Vienna-style frankfurter in a soft bun, split and griddled, topped with mayo, mustard, ketchup, salsa golf, and sometimes crushed potato chips ('lluvia de papa').

🇵🇾Paraguay

Papaya in Syrup

Dulce de Mamón

Papaya boiled in water and sugar for hours until soft, flavored with cloves, orange or lemon juice, a traditional dessert.

🇧🇷Brazil

Passion fruit

Maracudja

Passion fruit, the seedy aromatic fruit of a climbing vine native to South America, ubiquitous in Brazilian juices, mousses and desserts.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Payagua Mascada

Payaguá Mascada

Croquettes made with cassava, minced beef, and chives, shaped flat and fried, traditional during San Juan celebrations.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Peanut Brittle

Ka'i Ladrillo

Rectangular peanut-and-molasses slabs whose name means 'brick' — peanuts held in dark cane syrup, cut sharp and sold wrapped in paper.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Pira Caldo

Fish soup made with river fish, fat, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, parsley, and spices, a traditional Paraguayan dish.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Puchero

Hearty beef bone soup with tomatoes, carrots, onions, bell peppers, and garlic, similar to Spanish cocido, served with yuca.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Pulp Guaraná

Paraguayan guaraná soda sweetened with natural fruit juice, lighter green and fruitier than the Brazilian brands and a point of national pride since 1988.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Queso Paraguayo

Quesu Paraguái

Fresh whole-milk cheese of curds pressed barely at all, so it stays moist, mildly acidic and crumbly — the defining ingredient of sopa paraguaya and chipa.

🇦🇷Argentina

Rice Pudding

Arroz con leche

Argentine rice pudding of rice, milk, sugar, cinnamon, and sometimes lemon zest or vanilla. A classic home dessert, served warm or chilled with a dusting of cinnamon.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Sopa Paraguaya

Savory cornbread made from cornmeal, cheese, eggs, milk, and onions, baked in a slab and served with asado.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Sopa So'o

Savory corn cake studded with chunks of beef — literally 'soup with meat' in Guaraní — baked like sopa paraguaya but heavier and meat-based, cut in squares for lunch counters and family tables.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Soyo

So'o Josopy

Thick soup of beef minced to a paste on the pestle (so'o josopy), simmered with vegetables until the broth turns silky and substantial — Guaraní technique in a colonial pot.

🇦🇷Argentina

Surubí

A large catfish from the Paraná and Uruguay rivers, grilled or used in chupín de pescado. A northeast Argentine specialty, prized for its firm, white flesh.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Sweet Corn Pudding

Mbaipy He'ẽ

Soft golden corn mush sweetened with miel negra and milk, a Guaraní-rooted dessert still cooked in rural kitchens and at Saint-related feasts.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Sweet Potato

Batata

Sweet potato, used in dulce de batata and as a side dish, a traditional Paraguayan vegetable, versatile and sweet.

🇦🇷Mato Grosso do Sul, Argentina

Tereré

A cold infusion of yerba mate in ice water, sipped through a bombilla from a horn or glass guampa, popular in Mato Grosso do Sul.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Vori Vori

Vorí Vorí

Chicken-and-vegetable soup with small cheese-cornmeal dumplings that swell in the broth, a fixture of Paraguayan Sunday lunches.

🇦🇷Argentina

Yerba Mate

The dried, ground leaves and twigs of Ilex paraguariensis, used to brew mate and tereré. Argentina is the world's largest producer, and yerba is a household staple.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Yerba Mate Kurupí

Bold, stem-heavy yerba mate blend milled for the strong hot water tereré demands, and one of the two brands most poured in Paraguay.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Yerba Mate Pajarito

Classic Asunción yerba mate brand since 1956, milled in the traditional Paraguayan style with pronounced bitterness and smoky depth for tereré and cocido alike.