Bandeja Paisa
Antioquia's monumental platter: beans, rice, ground beef, chicharrón, a fried egg, sweet plantain, avocado and an arepa — the paisa harvest on one tray. Ingredients: red beans, white rice, ground beef, pork belly for chicharrón, eggs, ripe plantains, avocado, hogao (tomato-onion sauce), arepas.
What it is
Antioquia's monumental platter: beans, rice, ground beef, chicharrón, a fried egg, sweet plantain, avocado and an arepa — the paisa harvest on one tray. Ingredients: red beans, white rice, ground beef, pork belly for chicharrón, eggs, ripe plantains, avocado, hogao (tomato-onion sauce), arepas. Recipe: 1) Stew beans with plantain and hogao until thick. 2) Fry a whole strip of pork belly into crackling chicharrón. 3) Cook rice, sear seasoned ground beef, fry plantain and eggs. 4) Arrange everything on an oval tray with avocado and a warm arepa. Serve: with mazamorra or a cold aguapanela — appetite mandatory. Flavor: beans and hogao depth, crisp pork, runny egg. History: the fuel of Antioquia's muleteers and coffee farmers; Medellín's restaurants codified the bandeja as Colombia's most famous plate. See also: Ajiaco Santafereño, Arepa de Queso.
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