Colombian Recipes & Cookbooks

How to Cook dishes from Colombia

• Ajiaco - A potato soup, typically also two or more kinds of native potatoes, chicken on the bone, and corn on the cob. It is flavored using guasca, which is a local herb, and gives the soup a very distinctive taste. Avocado, capers, and cream are usually mixed in just before eating, and then served over white rice.
  
  
• Arepa - This is a corn-based bread. It can be topped with butter, cheese, chocolate, or hogao (a sauce made from onions and tomatoes with cumin, oregano, pepper, and salt).
  
  
• Bandeja paisa - Grilled steak, fried pork rind (chicharrón), with chorizo, egg, red beans and rice, usually served with arepa, a slice of avocado, and sweet fried plantains.
  
  
• Sancocho - A stew based on traditions in Spanish cuisine. The Colombian recipe contains meat, cassava, plantain, potato, and other vegetables.

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Secrets of Colombian Cooking (Hippocrene Cookbook Library) By Patricia McCausland-Gallo Hippocrene Books Hardcover (251 pages) List Price: $24.95* Lowest New Price: $16.05* Lowest Used Price: $15.99* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 06:58 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Colombia is a country of vast exotic culinary creations and diverse territories that range from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, producing a plentiful variety of seafood; to the Amazon, Magdelena and Cauca rivers that bathe its soils with fertility; and to the Andean mountains that present coller climates. The author travelled throughout these regions to collect the most authentic dishes. With over 175 recipes and a glossary of ingredients, cooks will become acquainted with many of Colombia's indienous foods, such as cilantro, tamarind, tree tomatoes, gooseberries and sweet and hot peppers.

The Food and Cooking of Colombia & Venezuela: Traditions, ingredients, tastes, techniques, 65 classic recipes (Food & Cooking of) By Patricia McCausland-Gallo Anness Hardcover (128 pages) List Price: $29.99* Lowest New Price: $18.56* Lowest Used Price: $18.58* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 06:58 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Fully illustrated with 400 photographs, feast on food that celebrates the South American love of street parties, carnivals and hospitality, and create authentic Colombian and Venezuelan dishes in your own kitchen.