3 dishes people actually cook in Bolivia: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Bolivia? 3 traditional Bolivia dishes, from Pique macho (50 min, the quickest) to Salteñas (860 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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A Cochabamba platter of double-fried potatoes buried under beef, sausage, hard boiled eggs and enough locoto to earn the name.
A Bolivian baked empanada whose filling is a chilli stew set with gelatine overnight, so that it melts back into broth inside the sealed pastry as it bakes.
A breaded beef steak pounded so thin it covers the whole plate, laid over rice and fried potato slices and topped with a raw tomato salsa and a fried egg.
Copper documents three dishes from Bolivia: Pique macho, Salteñas and Silpancho. Eggs and garlic each appear in more than one recipe. All three are boiled. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 32 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 32 ingredients between them, of which 4 are shared by more than one dish. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these three are the Bolivia entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Pique macho is the quickest at 50 minutes. Salteñas is the longest at 860 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 60 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
None of the dishes from Bolivia here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Pique macho is the shortest way in.
Bolivia is part of South American.
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