hi !!!
I am from Venezuela and here we have several typical dishes, so I will tell you some of the main ones ..
As everyone already knows the food most food in my country is the arepa, it can be roasted, fried, and stuffed with many things, it can be stuffed with chicken, meat, fish, grains like beans, vegetables, avocado, cheese, ham, or simply sauces. The arepa can be any type of filling and always tastes good.
Prepare it is very simple, you only need corn flour, you put it in a container, you add water and dough until you eliminate the lumps of flour, and make it soft, you add a little salt and ready, you make a ball with your hands and crush it until it is circular and put it to cook.
Another of the typical foods of my country is the pavilion, which is a dish with cooked white rice, meat, black beans (stewed and then stir-fried in butter or oil) and sliced
fried plantain.
For that you should soak the beans for about 4 hours, wash them and put them to cook in enough water until they are soft. Then you add the seasonings that you previously fried in a pan with oil.
Apart from that, you put the minced meat into pieces until it is soft, then you remove the water and let it rest so that you can rub it with your fingers.
In turn you must cook the white rice and apart in a pan put oil and you have to fry the bananas cut into slices that are called "slices" here in Venezuela.
And then you serve it, it's delicious, here I'll leave you a picture.
Another of the typical foods of Venezuela is the cachapa, is made of ground corn and has the shape of an omelette. The cachapas have a preparation similar to that of the pancakes, but without wheat flour, only ground corn.
It's cooked in a Teflon pan with oil, in a griddle or budare, it has a sweet flavor, it's folded in half at the time of eating and it's stuffed with butter, hand cheese, custard and you can even add meat, chicken or chorizo according to your preference
And finally I will tell you the typical food of my country in Christmas that is the hallaca, which is a dish that is cooked in days since the dough should be made one day before its preparation.
For your preparation you need banana leaves that are cut every 30 centimeters, eliminating those that are broken, washed and left to dry.
Then for the filling you should cut all the meat into small pieces, as well as the peppers, onion, leek and garlic among others.
To prepare the dough, water is added to the corn flour and kneaded until it forms a cream. (like the arepa recipe)
Once the dough is finished, spread on the banana leaves, in a circular and uniform way and in the center of the dough, place all the filling you want to taste.
The dough is closed and a second banana leaf is placed on top, wrapping the hallaca.
Once wrapped it is tied with a thread so that it is like a kind of package and it is boiled in salted water for one hour. and then it's ready to be eaten !!!
It's very delicious and without a doubt it can not be missing in the Venezuelan Christmas dish
I hope you get to try and cook some of these Venezuelan dishes, they are very delicious, I recommend them!
regards!!
