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Chilean Food 🇨🇱

Pork roll whose ingredients include garlic, cumin, pork meat pulp, garlic, slices of bacon and pepper.

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A sandwich with thinly-sliced beef and cheese.

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Fried donut, similar to a beignet.

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Spanish for “cooking pot”. A stew with meat and vegetables typically cooked and served in a clay bowl.

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Simpler than Peruvian ceviche. Normally just onion, fish, lemon sauce. It’s really cheap from fresh seafood stores on the coast. They always have merken (a smoked chili powder) nearby to add.

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French fries with onion, meat, and fried eggs on top.

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Alcoholic Christmas drink consisting of milk, aguardiente, and cinnamon.

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A Chilean hot dog. The “completo italiano” is the most popular, with avocado and tomato.

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Known as Chilean sea bass in other countries. It’s delicious and much cheaper than in other countries. It’s more common and much cheaper in Southern Chile.

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The same dough used for empanadas, but folded multiple times to make a flaky bread

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Empanada with slow-cooked beef filling. The variants with cheese are great too.

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Chile’s classic empanada. Very tasty with ground beef, onion, egg, and olive.

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Similar to Mexico’s tamale. Corn meal, onion, and aji wrapped in a corn husk and boiled.

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Quechuan soup with beef, corn, onion, garlic, and peppers. Mainly in the north of Chile.

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A mollusk. Tasty in soups and ceviches.

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Sandwich with thinly slicked crunchy pork. Like the completo, it’s popular to order it “italiano” with avocado and tomato.

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Merken’s a mild smoked chili powder from the indigenous Mapuche people. It’s great added to soups, chowders, and ceviche.

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Chile’s version of bubble tea. Sweet juice with husked wheat and peaches.

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Warm wine cocktail for winter consisting of red wine, cinnamon and orange.

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My favorite Chilean dish. It’s a sweet corn pie with onions, olives, beef, and chicken.

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Cocktail consisting of pisco, lime juice, and sugar. Unlike the Peruvian version, it doesn’t have egg white.

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Braised brisket pieces.

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Tasty bean and sweet corn soup.

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Bean soup

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Flat fried bread with different recipes depending on the region. In some areas it’s more of a savory bread made with pumpkin, in others it’s sweet and frosted with sugar.

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A pie with nuts and a cake filling. Get it at a cafe / coffee shop.

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