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🇻🇪 Traditional dishes from Venezuela

3 dishes people actually cook in Venezuela: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

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Arepas rellenas

40 min · medium · 6 ingredients

Arepas rellenas, a traditional dish from Venezuela

Delicious cornmeal pockets stuffed with savory fillings.

  • 500 g cornmeal
  • 300 ml water
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 200 g cheese
  • 2 avocadoes
  • 400 g black beans

Hallaca

180 min · hard · 13 ingredients

Hallaca, a traditional dish from Venezuela

Savor the festive flavors of traditional Venezuelan hallacas!

  • 500 g corn flour
  • 300 g beef
  • 300 g pork
  • 300 g chicken
  • 1 onion
  • 1 bell pepper
  • 2 garlic
  • 100 g olives
  • 50 g capers
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 4 banana leaves

Pabellón criollo

120 min · medium · 10 ingredients

Pabellón criollo, a traditional dish from Venezuela

Savor the rich flavors of Venezuela's national dish!

  • 400 g black beans
  • 300 g rice
  • 500 g shredded beef
  • 2 plantains
  • 1 onion
  • 3 garlic
  • 60 ml vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper

What do people eat in Venezuela?

The three dishes from Venezuela documented in Copper are Arepas rellenas, Hallaca and Pabellón criollo. Black beans and cumin each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are fried. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 23 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Venezuela?

The three recipes need 23 ingredients between them, of which 4 are shared by more than one dish. Black beans is the hardest to find: of the 588 dishes in Copper's atlas, 9 use black beans. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Venezuela take?

Arepas rellenas is the quickest at 40 minutes. Hallaca is the longest at 180 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 120 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Venezuela is easiest to make at home?

None of the dishes from Venezuela here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Arepas rellenas is the shortest way in.

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