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Colombian National Dishes

Explore 268 Colombian recipes with measured ingredients, cooking steps and practical serving advice.

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Wide sancocho paisa spread with broth bowl, meat and vegetable platter, and ripe plantain.
Colombian National Dishes

Colombian National Dishes

Explore 268 Colombian recipes with measured ingredients, cooking steps and practical serving advice.

24 recipes
24 recipes
Bowl of Antioquia sancocho with beef, pork, yuca, potato, corn and green plantain.

Sancocho Paisa: Antioquia Beef and Pork Stew

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Bowl of Popayán peanut sancocho with pork, green guineo, yuca, potatoes, corn and beans.

Popayán Peanut Sancocho with Pork, Guineo and Cassava

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A full bowl of golden Popayán sancocho con coles with pork, beans, potatoes, ulluco, cabbage ribbons and cilantro on a rustic table.

Popayán Sancocho con Coles with Pork, Ulluco and Corn

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A bowl of thick Pastuso chicken sancocho with corn, plantain, cassava, potatoes, ulluco, broad beans and cilantro.

Pastuso Chicken Sancocho with Broad Beans and Ulluco

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Bowl of chicken-based Orocué sancocho with orange squash, cassava, green plantain and cilantro.

Orocué Sancocho with Ahuyama, Cassava and Green Plantain (Chicken Adaptation)

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Bowl of Cartago-style beef sancocho with ribs, sirloin, green plantain, cassava and cilantro.

Cartago-Style Valluno Beef Sancocho with Green Plantain and Cassava

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Sancocho criollo o llanero with carne oreada beef, green plantain and cassava in a rustic bowl.

Llanos-Style Sancocho with Carne Oreada, Green Plantain and Cassava

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Sancocho de cola with meaty beef oxtail, green plantain, cassava, squash and corn in a rustic bowl.

Valle del Cauca Oxtail Sancocho with Green Plantain and Cassava

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Atlántico guandú sancocho with pigeon peas, beef ribs, ripe plantain, yuca, ñame, pork cracklings and costeño cheese.

Atlántico Guandú Bean Sancocho with Beef Ribs, Ripe Plantain and Cassava

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Cesar goat sancocho with bone-in goat, green plantain, yuca, ñame, malanga, sweet potato, squash, corn and cabbage.

Colombian Goat Sancocho from Cesar with Plantain, Yuca and Regional Roots

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San Estanislao sancocho trifásico with pork ribs, pork shoulder, chicken, yuca, potato, ñame, ahuyama, green plantain and corn.

Sancocho trifásico from San Estanislao with Pork, Chicken and Roots

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A bowl of pork-head and tripe sancocho with green plantain, yuca, ñame and corn, photographed at a three-quarter angle.

Sancocho de Doña Conchita: pork, tripe and root-vegetable stew

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A bowl of thick Bishana-style bean, cabbage, maize and local-root soup beside one adapted arepa.

Bishana with cuna-tumaqueño arepas: a Kamëntsá-inspired soup menu

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A bowl of Antioquia sopa de arepa with potato, hogao, herbs and egg-coated corn arepa pieces.

Antioquia Sopa de Arepa (Potato Soup with Egg-Coated Arepa)

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Close view of Cabro Barichara goat with a toasted breadcrumb crust, boiled yuca and ají.

Cabro Barichara

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Bowl of Santander tripe and chickpea stew with rice.

Callos con garbanzos santandereanos

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Cúcuta-style braised goat in tomato guiso with white rice and boiled yuca, served in a ceramic bowl.

Chivo cucuteño

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Bucaramanga-style macaroni with shredded chicken, creamy cheese sauce and visible capers in a ceramic casserole.

Bucaramanga Macaroni with Chicken

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Opened patarasca leaf packet showing cooked fish with tomato, onion and red and green peppers.

Patarasca o chianti from the Colombian Amazon

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Cúcuta Pichones braised with red pepper, onion, parsley and mint, served with white rice.

Pichones from Cúcuta

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Whole butterflied smoke-roasted gamitana with patacones and lime on a banana leaf.

Gamitana Muguiada from the Colombian Amazon

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A golden Ocaña egg tortilla with cooked barbatusca petals, onion and green tomato, sliced on a platter beside a small Ocañera corn arepa.

Tortilla de Barbatusca from Ocaña

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Golden fried gamitana pieces with patacones, toasted cassava fariña and a bowl of fish-head broth.

Gamitana Frita from the Colombian Amazon

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Soft scrambled eggs with tomato, scallion and sliced anacuma shoots in a rustic clay dish.

Perico de Anacuma: Colombian Scrambled Eggs with Tender Shoots

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