Arepas (Colombian, with cheese)
Griddled corn cakes made from pre-cooked cornmeal and stuffed or topped with cheese.
Why It Works
Pre-cooked cornmeal hydrates instantly into a pliable dough; the simple starch-and-cheese combination creates a crispy exterior and molten, stretchy interior.
Key Ingredients
Similar Recipes (Corn Flatbread)
More Colombian Recipes
Antioquia's lavish platter of red beans, rice, ground beef, chicharron, fried egg, plantain, arepa, and avocado.
Bogota's signature chicken soup with three types of potatoes, corn on the cob, and the herb guascas.
Cornmeal cakes split and stuffed — Venezuela and Colombia's daily bread.
Hearty one-pot soup of chicken, yuca, plantain, corn, and potatoes in a tomato-cilantro broth.
Whole pig stuffed with rice, peas, and spices, roasted for 12+ hours until the skin is shattering crisp.
Corn-dough empanadas filled with seasoned potato and beef, deep-fried to a satisfying crunch.