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Colombian National Dishes

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Wide view of the Cundinamarca cocido feast on a wooden table, with a corn-husk bollo and local sides.
Colombian National Dishes

Colombian National Dishes

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

24 recipes
24 recipes
Choachí dry cocido platter with Andean roots, corn, beans and smoked goat, pork and beef, beside a cut corn bollo showing crisp pork pieces.

Cocido de chiguachía y bollo de supías: Choachí's Dry Cocido and Corn Bollo

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Opened Antioquia tamal with golden corn masa, boneless pork, potato, carrot and green peas on softened banana leaf.

Tamales antioqueños: Antioquia's Pork and Maize Parcels

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Opened Sácama tamal with yellow corn masa, pork, peas, potato and onion on banana leaf.

Tamal de Sácama: Colombian Pork and Corn Parcels

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Opened Huila rice tamal with beef, pork, chicken, peas, vegetables and egg on plantain leaves.

Tamal Huilense: Huila-Style Rice Tamales

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Opened Tabio tamal de calabaza showing golden corn mixture with pumpkin, pork, potatoes, peas and carrot, wrapped in plantain leaves.

Tamales de Calabaza from Tabio: Pumpkin and Corn Parcels

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Bowl of beef-tripe sancocho from San Estanislao with yuca, ñame, potato, green plantain, cilantro, scallion and a green ají.

Sancocho de Mondongo from San Estanislao: Colombian Tripe Soup

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Opened Tamal Tamareño with yellow corn masa, pork, Colombian chorizo, peas and potato beside banana leaf and boiled yuca.

Tamales Tamareños: Casanare Corn and Pork Tamales

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Opened Tamal de Pipián with soft corn masa around yellow potato and peanut filling, beside a folded banana leaf.

Tamales de Pipián from Popayán: Cauca Potato and Peanut Tamales

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Opened Tamal Valluno with corn masa, pork, yellow potato, carrot, peas and egg on banana leaf.

Tamales Vallunos: Valle del Cauca Pork and Hogao Tamales

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Opened Cartago-style tamal with corn masa, pork, beef, pork belly and yellow potato in banana leaf.

Tamales Cartagueños (Cartago-Style Colombian Tamales)

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Opened pale corn tamal de resplandor with pork, potato and egg guiso in banana leaf.

Tamales de Resplandor (Valle del Cauca, Colombia)

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Cojín de Lechona Tolimense (Tolima, Colombia)

Cojín de Lechona Tolimense (Tolima, Colombia)

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Golden pork-skin lechona with a cut slice showing rice, peas, pork, chicken, capers and olives, beside a corn arepa on a leaf.

Lechona Alcaparrada with Natural Spices (Boyacá, Colombia)

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Bowl of Caquetá country-hen sancocho with cassava, potato, green plantain and white rice on the side.

Sancocho Caqueteño de Gallina de Campo (Caquetá, Colombia)

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Country-hen sancocho in hogao broth with cassava, green plantain, potato, corn and rice on the side.

Sancocho de Gallina Criolla from San Sebastián de Buenavista (Magdalena, Colombia)

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Huila sancocho de pataló with river-fish steaks, plantain, cassava and potato in broth

Sancocho de pataló from Huila, Colombia

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Tolima lechona with browned pork skin, seasoned pork and yellow split peas

Lechona tolimense from Tolima, Colombia

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Mompox bocachico sancocho with fish, yuca, plantain, ñame, pumpkin and corn

Sancocho de bocachico from Santa Cruz de Mompox, Colombia

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Casanare hen sancocho with yuca, green plantain, potato and ahuyama in a clay bowl.

Sancocho de gallina or beef ribs from San Luis de Palenque

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Recetor hen sancocho with green plantain, topocho, yuca, potato and cilantrón in a rustic bowl.

El sancocho de gallina criolla from Recetor

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Pig-shaped Támara pork-skin roast with a cut opening showing pork, rice and yellow peas.

Lechona Tamareña from Támara

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A bowl of Ginebra hen sancocho with yuca and green plantain, served beside grilled hen, rice, avocado and ají.

Sancocho de Gallina de Ginebra

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A rustic bowl of golden Quibdó hen sancocho with green plantain, banana and cassava; rice and lime on the side.

Sancocho de Gallina Criolla o Correteada

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Putumayo-style red beans with green plantain and white rice on a ceramic plate

Fríjoles con Arroz

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