Creamy Corn Soup with Lime, Chili and Baked Tortilla
This Mexican-inspired delicious and comforting creamy sweet corn soup with a zesty twist of lime and a kick of chili, accompanied by crispy baked tortilla strips, is a perfect dish...
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South American Cuisine
South America has become a culinary force to be reckoned with. Peruvian food has become a sensation, Brazilian food & restaurants can now be found pretty much anywhere, while Argentinean dishes are as popular as ever.
Discover some of the best traditional foods the continent has to offer from Colombian and Venezuelan to Ecuadorian and Chilian to perhaps lesser known, but equally delicious, Guyanese.
Paraguayan Food: Top 25 Paraguayan Dishes to Try Out
Paraguay, a land-locked country nestled in the heart of South America, is not well known for its cuisine! That does not mean that its food isn’t delicious or unique. Brazil,...
Best 25 Brazilian Dessert Recipes to Try Out
Having a diverse heritage and very fertile land, Brazilians have created a fantastic range of delicious desserts to suit every taste. These can use tropical fruits such as the cupuaçu...
Chilean Food: 25 Most Popular Dishes in Chile
Chile is not wildly famous for its gastronomy. And that’s probably because most of the country’s typical dishes are not fancy or complex, let alone pretentious. However, the raw ingredients...
Top 18 Most Popular Argentinian Foods (With Photos!)
The first things we associate with Argentina are tango and soccer – the latter made so famous by two of the greatest representatives of the sport, Diego Maradona and Lionel...
10 Must-Try Argentinian Desserts
Desserts are, without a doubt, an integral of Argentinian cuisine. As descendants of sociable Italians and Spaniards, Argentines are great lovers of after-dinner talk, especially on Sundays when family gatherings abound....
Top 25 Foods of Ecuador: From the Beach to the Amazon
Even by Latin American standards, Ecuadorian cuisine is intriguing and incredibly diverse. The variations in climate found in this relatively small country has led to each region developing a unique...
Top 30 Guyanese Foods To Try Out (With Pictures!)
Guyana, also known as the “land of many waters”, is the only English-speaking country in South America. This little country on the Amazon basin is a melting pot of cultures...
Peruvian Ceviche
This is perhaps the most famous Peruvian food, a dish that’s now treasured all over the world and which has put Peru on the world’s culinary map. Ceviche is a...
Best 30 Brazilian Foods (With Pictures!)
Brazil is a vast country with a diverse, multicultural heritage reflected in its traditional dishes. Despite its dark history as a Portuguese colony worked by African slaves, Brazil has a...
Top 25 Colombian Foods (With Photos!)
Colombia is known for being a tropical paradise with a diversity of interesting ingredients infusing its traditional cuisine. Colombia’s gastronomy is heavily influenced by its 5 different regions, each having...
Carapulcra (Traditional Peruvian Pork-Stew)
Carapulcra is a traditional Peruvian stew made with dehydrated potatoes and either pork or chicken which is then dressed with a combination of onion, garlic, clove, yellow peppers, salt and...
Pachamanca Clasica
Pachamanca is traditional Peruvian dish that’s cooked underground with the help of hot stones. Red meat, lamb, pork, cuy (Peruvian guinea pig), and chicken are cooked together along with potatoes,...
12 Popular Peruvian Christmas Foods
Peruvian food is incredibly tasty and has recently become very trendy at an international trendy, but what does Peruvian Christmas food look like? One surprising little fact is that Peruvians...
8 Popular Christmas Dishes in Argentina
In Argentina, Christmas is celebrated at the beginning of summer. These are very hot days in almost the entire country, which you would think would mean light, cold, low-calorie dishes. ...
15 Favorite Christmas Foods from Ecuador
Christmas represents a bumper period for the Ecuadorian travel and tourism industry, with thousands of people from the highlands flooding the popular coastal resort towns (good luck getting near an...
Christmas Food in Chile : A Mix of Northern and Local Traditions
Have you ever been to the Southern hemisphere for Christmas? For Europeans and North Americans, this is definitely an unusual experience, considering it’s summer down there. In Chile, for instance,...
Cuy Chactado (Peruvian Guinea Pig Recipe)
Guinee pigs, known locally as cuy, are a popular source of protein in many South American countries. In Peru, an estimated number of 65 million Guinee pigs are eaten every...
Delicious Guyanese Christmas Foods & Drinks You Must Try
Guyana may be a small nation in South America but it is big in flavors. This melting pot of traditions and cultures includes foods with influences from all around the...
11 Tasty Bolivian Christmas Foods & Desserts
Bolivia is a country with many traditions, both native and indigenous, as well as those from the influence of Spanish colonization. Like many other countries, it is also influenced by...
15 Traditional Uruguayan Desserts
In 1830 Uruguay had only 70,000 inhabitants. By 1900, the population had grown to 1 million. Europeans, mainly Spanish and Italian, arrived in the country and adapted their cuisine with...
24 of the Most Popular Bolivian Dessert Recipes
Bolivian cuisine is as diverse as its regions, climates, and cultures. From the eastern plains and the jungle zone with its warm and humid climate, passing through the temperate valleys...
Top 15 Most Popular Venezuelan Desserts
Venezuelan desserts are very diverse and full of flavor. Some are of aboriginal origin while others are influenced by European cuisine, which has left a mark on the local gastronomy....
Most Tasty Colombian Dessert Recipes to Try Out
Let’s face it, it’s not just the children who enjoy desserts. We all carry an inner child that drives us to try desserts, especially if we are traveling to a...