Venezuelan Recipes

"The way we make traditional Venezuelan arepas in our house. Every Venezuelan family has their own way of making it. You can skip the griddle/oven steps if you have a "Tostiarepa" (think panini press for arepas) but since my husband thinks it's sacrilegious, we do it this way. We'll start with the measurement recommendations on the back of..."

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Ingredients: salt, sugar, water...

"This recipe does not contain avocado. This is the kind of guasacaca you would find at food carts selling arepas on the calle de hambre (hunger streets) in Venezuela. Every family has their own recipe, and this is ours. Adjusting the taste is very simple once the ingredients are in the blender. Just add more of whatever you'd like."

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Ingredients: cilantro, corn oil...

"It looks just fine in the picture, but after the first bite, it becomes a mess! a GIANT WAVE! Its aspect is horrible, ugly, revolting, disgusting, and to some, even nauseous, and it also tends to spill onto the eater ---but wow! The sight is worth it! What a great taste---A TRUE TSUNAMI GIGANTIC TASTE EXPLOSION! Careful, you might bite your tongue! Great..."

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Ingredients: white cheese, hot dog buns...

"Posted for ZWT 7"

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Ingredients: cilantro, fresh parsley...

"Be sure to suit your own tastes with the dressing using more or less mayonnaise, pickle juice, salt and pepper. I got this Venezuelan recipe from All Recipes.com to use for ZWT 2011."

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Ingredients: pepper, pickle juice...

"Posting for the Central/South American region of ZWT. A popular breakfast dish in Venezuela is perico, eggs scrambled with onions, tomatoes and peppers. It's colorful name means "parakeet" in Spanish, and it can be eaten with bread or stuffed into arepas. Found this on Whats4eats.com."

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Ingredients: eggs, oil, onions...

"I've had various tasty arepas before, usually the storebought kind, and I'd always get frustrated because the store by me only sells the ones that are just corn cakes with some cheese in the dough, not the kind I got in my freshman year of college that had the corny, cheesy dough but were chock full of real gooey cheese in the middle! So I looked at..."

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Ingredients: cornmeal, warm water...

"Back in Venezuela, when I was a child, my family usually had this Chicken Chupe in a get together every January 1st. to celebrate the New Year. Now I bring that tradition to my family and friends having this fabulous and really easy recipe and I make it every time my family ask for it. It's so good that everybody loves it!! I prefer using chicken..."

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Ingredients: cilantro, white cheese...

"Now here is a real exotic plate of soup for you and the family, that makes up an entire meal. Have a plate of this for lunch, but I recommend you do so on a sunday, so you can spend all the day in bed. This is a typical Venezuelan dish, and if you're an OSSO BUCCO lover, you will really like this, since these famous veal shanks are one of the..."

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Ingredients: cilantro, yucca root, eggs...

"Adapted from Chef Rafael Palomino's recipe, found on OChef.com. Posted by request. Arepas may be made in advance through step 8, covered with a damp towel and refrigerated up to 1 day before grilling."

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Ingredients: corn kernels, cornmeal...

"This is a typical and very popular Venezuelan breakfast dish, accompanied with a few slices of bread or toast and butter. It's easy and fast to prepare."

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Ingredients: cilantro, eggs, onions...