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How to Cook dishes from Latin America
Latin America is home to a wide range of different cuisines, inspired by
many different influences including
Spanish cuisine,
Portuguese cuisine, and
native American cuisines.
It should be remembered that regions a range of different climatic areas,
including the agricultural and cattle-ranching regions of
Argentina, the Andes mountains in
Peru,
Mexico,
and of course the Spanish-speaking islands of the Caribbean.
Each of these regions of course produces different agricultural
and food products, and has its owns culinary traditions, and so, as a result,
Latin American cuisine is very diverse.
Some popular Latin American recipes and dishes include:
- Aji de gallina - This Peruvian recipe
is made by coating thin strips of chicken with a spicy yellow sauce
made from yellow chilis with bread, cheese, milk and walnuts.
- Burrito - This Mexican recipe is made from
a tortilla filled with meat, such as beef, chicken or pork.
In Mexican cuisine meat is used for
the only filling and the tortilla is thinly rolled.
The dish has of course also been widely adopted in the
the United States,
and in American cuisine other ingredients
(such as beans, cheese, rice,
salsa, sour cream, tomatoes, etc.) are often
added into the filling.
- Empadas - Pastry pies from Brazilian cuisine.
Many different fillings can be used, including
beef, cheeese, chicken, palmito (heart of palm) and shrimp.
In many cases, pieces of olive are mixed into the filling.
- Empanadas - Baked or fried pastries usually containing various savory fillings
from Argentine cuisine.
There are many different varieties and fillings, including chicken, beef, boiled-egg, cheese,
ham and cheese, fish, spinach, or humita (sweetcorn with white sauce).
There are also dessert varieties, which normally contain fruit fillings.
- Enchilada - This dish from Mexican cuisine
is based around a corn tortilla. The tortilla is
dipped in oil or lard and echilada sauce, filled, rolled, and placed in a casserole dish.
Sauce is then poured into the dish, and the whole thing baked in the oven.
- Feijoada - This is stew from Brazilian cuisine
is sometimes considered to Brazil's national dish.
It contains black turtle beans and assorted meats, the meats usually
including
bacon, beef, jerked beef, salted pork, sausage, and smoked pork ribs.
Feijoada is traditionally served together with rice, refined collar greens, roasted
cassava flour, and an orange.
- Milanesa - This dish from Argentine cuisine
is somehwat similar to
Austrian cuisine's Wiener schnitzel.
A thin slice of meat (usually beef, but sometimes chicken or veal),
is dipped in eggs, seasoned, and then covered with breadcrumbs and fried.
The dish is often served
with mashed potatoes as
"milanesa con papas".
- Mofongo (also known as "fou-fou") - This dish is found in
Cuban cuisine and
Puerto Rican cuisine.
It is made from
mashed plantains which are stuffed with chicken, pork or seafood.
- Pachamanca - This is one of the most famous dishes in
Peruvian cuisine. It is made by cooking marinated
meat and assorted vegetables in an earthen oven (which is known as a "huatia").
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