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Empanadas

These fried or baked dough pastries are often filled with cheese, shellfish, or a pino combination of ground beef, oil, egg, and onion. While Chileans eat empanadas all year, handmade empanadas de pino are one of the primary traditional delicacies presented at Chile’s Fiestas Patrias, which take place in September.

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Ceviche

Ceviche in various forms may be found across Latin America, particularly in Chile and Peru. Raw fish (typically reineta or corvina) is marinated and cooked with lemon juice before being served with onions, garlic, merkén, cilantro, cumin, salt, olive oil, and red peppers.

Cazuela

This delectable soup is created with big chunks of soft beef or chicken, potatoes, pumpkin, corn noodles, and cilantro, and is ideal for a chilly day or warding off the sniffles.

Try this classic meal, which has both Spanish and indigenous Mapuche roots, at one of La Vega Central’s marketplace cafés.

Choripán

Choripanes are grilled sausages served with fresh bread, which are often cooked during Chilean barbecues (asados). Chilean choripanes are typically served with toppings like as mayonnaise, mashed avocado, and pebre.

Humitas

This traditional South American food comes from pre-Hispanic Andean civilizations and may be found in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. Though humitas are made in the same way as a Mexican tamale, they are noted for their sweetness rather than their heat.

Humitas are formed with boiling flour and corn dough that has been fried with butter, onion, and basil before being wrapped in corn husks.

Mote with huesillos

This syrupy traditional beverage is created from mote (a kind of peach nectar), dried peaches, and huesillos (husked wheat). Because of local wheat supply, eating mote with sugar or milk became a common ritual in Chile throughout the nineteenth century.

The peach and syrup were eventually added, and the drink became a mainstay of Chilean cuisine, particularly in the country’s central regions.

Completo

Completos, Chile’s version of the hot dog, are unexpectedly one of the most popular Chilean dishes, available at sandwich shops and booths around the country. A classic completo includes sausage, diced tomato, mayonnaise, and sauerkraut.

Curanto

Curanto is a typical Chilean dish made with pork, potatoes, seafood, a potato bread called milcao, veggies, and dumplings. Curanto is distinguished by the fact that it is made using hot stones in a deep hole in the earth.

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Sopaipilla

This famous fried pumpkin flatbread comes in two varieties. Vendors on the streets will provide hot sopaipillas with spicy sauce or pebre. A less typical way to consume them is in a dish with sweet chancaca, a molasses-like sauce.

Pastel de choclo

This famous traditional meal is a great example of mestizo (mixed) food in South America, combining the components for Spanish empanadas with the indigenous Andean dish humitas.

Pastel de choclo is a sweet and savoury corn pudding dish that is traditionally baked in a ceramic bowl and served.

Machas a la Parmesana

This is one of several well-known Chilean seafood-inspired dishes. Machas a la parmesana are razor clams roasted in their shells with cheese, wine, and other ingredients that vary depending on the recipe.

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