not a spotted dick or apple crumble in sight.....

Here is a list of typical Chilean Food and Drink and what their equivalent is in English:
Arrollado de Chancho - Chunks of pork wrapped in pork fat smothered in red aj? (chili).
Bistec a lo pobre - beefsteak, French fries, fried onions, topped with a couple of fried eggs.
Carbonada - meat soup with finely diced beef and all kinds of vegetables such as potatoes, onions, carrots, broccoli, green pepper and parsley.
Chancho en Piedra - a typical Chilean seasoning. Tomatoes, garlic, and onions grounded together in a stone.
Charquican - ground or diced meat cooked with garlic, onions, potatoes and pumpkin all mashed. It is a mushy dish but great.
Cazuela de Ave - chicken soup with pieces of meat, potatoes, green beans or peas, rice or noodles.
Cazuela de Vacuno - beef soup with pieces of meat, potatoes, corn on the cob, carrots, onions, green beans, garlic, chunks of pumpkin, rice or noodles.
Charquic?n - Potato, pumpkin, mince, onion, carrot sometimes with peas and corn (both optional) all mashed together.
Costillar de Chancho - baked spare (pork) ribs.
Curanto en Hoyo - a typical dish from the south of Chile. Traditionally prepared by heating fish, seafood, potatoes, some meat, milcaos and types of bread over red hot rocks in a hole in the ground. The food is wrapped in big leaves and then covered with dirt so that it slowly cooks over a number of hours. (Similar to a hangi in New Zealand)
Curanto en Olla - same ingredients as the curanto en hoyo only that it is cooked in a pot instead of under the ground. See our photo of a Curanto en Olla we had at Angelm? (near Puerto Montt).
Empanada de Pino - typical turnover filled with diced meat, onions, olive, raisins and a piece of hard-boiled egg, baked in earthen or plain oven.
Empanada de Queso - typical turnover filled with cheese. (Photo on right)
Ensalada a la Chilena - sliced tomatoes and onions with an oil dressing.
Humitas - boiled corn leaf rolls filled with seasoned ground corn.
Milcaos - grated raw potato squeezed until dry then added to minced cooked potatoes and flattened to a bread-like form then baked or fried. This is one of the ingredients that can be found in a typical curanto.
Palta Reina - avocado filled with tuna fish or ham covered with mayonnaise and served on lettuce leaves.
Parrillada - different kinds of meat, sausages and sometimes entrails grilled over charcoal and served with potato salad or rice.
Pastel de Choclo - a typical Chilean summer dish. Ground corn and meat, chopped onions small pieces of chicken, pieces of hard boiled egg, olive raisins - baked in clay or regular oven. Similar to a shepherd pie.
Pebre - seasoning of tomatoes with chopped onion, chili, coriander, and chives. Usually served in a little clay dish.
Pernil - boiled whole hock (ham).
Pollo Arvejado - Chicken served with peas, onion and sliced carrots.
Porotos Granados - fresh bean dish with ground corn and pieces of pumpkin served hot.
Prietas - Blood sausages.
Sopaipilla - a flat circular deep fried 'bread' made of pumpkin and flour.

Posted By: Tombs on July 31st 2012 at 18:00:23

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