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Some fruits and vegetables have different names in Chile than in other countries. I had those foods on the Vocabulary page before, but there were so many other unique dishes that I decided to make a whole page about food. I loved the food while I was in Chile, it makes me hungry everytime I update this page! ¡Provecho!
a lo pobre - served with fried onions and an egg
ají - chili pepper, also a hot chili sauce
ají pebre - green hot chili sauce
anticucho - shish kebab
asado - barbeque
cazuela - soup with a little meat, one potato, one small
cob of corn, chunk of zapallo, and other
vegetables
chancaca - solid brown sugar
charquicán - mashed potatoes mixed with zapallo,
ground beef, porotos, and corn
cochayuyo - brown alga or rockweed; a long tubular
seaweed boiled and used like pasta
cocho - harina tostada mixed with hot water or
milk and eaten as a hot cereal, ulpo
curanto - clambake
dulce de membrillo - fruit preserves made out of membrillos
empanadas - traditional turnover pie (de horno-baked,
frito-fried, de pino-with a meat and onion
filling, de queso-cheese, de mariscos-seafood)
ensalada chilena - salad of well rinsed sliced
onions, sliced tomatoes, vinegar, oil dressing, cilantro, and salt
estofado - stew
fiambre - lunch meat
guatita - tripe (cow stomach)
harina tostada - toasted flour
huevos a la copa - soft boiled eggs
humitas - mashed corn wrapped in corn husks and
steamed
manjar blanco - dulce de leche, sweetened condensed milk boiled until it turns caramel-like
once - "tea time"
parilladas - variety of meats cooked over a
charcoal grill
pastel de choclo - similar to a shepherd pie or
casserole, made with meat and layer of mashed corn
pastel de papas - similar to pastel de choclo but with a
layer of mashed potatoes instead of corn, served with
either sugar or salt sprinkled on top, dulce o salado
pino - ground beef with onions
pollo a lo spiedo - rotisserie chicken
puré de papas - mashed potatoes
prieta - blood and onion sausage
ulfe - type of seaweed
Sandwiches & Bread
ave palta - chicken and avocado sandwich
Barros Jarpa - ham and melted cheese sandwich
Barros Luco - steak and cheese sandwich
chacarero - steak and vegetable sandwich
chicharrones - bread with baked in dried pork
churrasco - marinated steak sandwich
completos - a hot dog on a fresh baked roll with tomatoes,
sauerkraut- chucrut, avocado, and
mayonnaise
hallullas - "pan especial" everyday bread
marraquetas - "pan frances" another type of everyday bread
milcao - Mapuche potato bread
pan amasado - homemade bread
pan candeal - bakery-style yeast bread
pan de pascua - Christmas fruit bread, similar to
fruit cake
Fruits &
Vegetables
alcayota - melon used to make jam
chirimoya - cherimoya or "custard apple", has a
very unique flavor; tastes like a blend of papaya, pineapple and banana
choclo - corn, instead of maíz (choclo is Incan
for corn)
damasco - apricot, albaricoque
frutilla - strawberry, instead of fresa
lúcuma - "eggfruit", often used in ice cream,
tastes like butterscotch
maní - peanuts, instead of cacahuate
membrillo - quince
mote - special type of whole kernel corn, similar
to hominy
níspero - medlar (fruit)
palta - avocado, instead of aguacate
papaya - the chilean papaya is a 5 sided yellow
fruit, different from the more common tropical papaya
pepino dulce - sweet fruit-like cucumber, tastes
like melon
porotos - beans, instead of frijoles
tuna - prickly pear fruit ( atún= tuna fish)
zapallo - squash, similar to pumpkin
Desserts & Pastries
alfajores - pastry filled with manjar and covered in either coconut or chocolate
berlin - jelly-filled donut
borrachitos - liquor filled pastry
cabritas - popcorn, palomitas de maíz
cachos - horn shaped pastry filled with manjar
calzones rotos - fried pastry, (literally "ripped
underwear")
chilenitos - pastry similar to alfajores, but covered with powdered sugar
churro - donut-like pastry rolled into a cylinder filled
with manjar
cuchufli - tubular pastry filled with manjar
küchen - type of german pastry
mil hojas - multi-layered pastry or tort with manjar
panqueque - rolled crepe filled with manjar or jam
picarón - ring-shaped cruller or friter
sopaipilla - type of flat scone made with zapallo
sopaipillas pasadas - sopaipillas covered with a
sweet syrupy sauce made from chancaca, traditionally made on rainy days
Beverages
aguardiente - liquor, apiado-liquor in which
celery has been left to steep, guindado- liquor in which cherries have
been left to steep
agüita - herbal tea, té de hierbas, agua monte
bebida - soda pop, instead of gaseosa or refresco
chicha - fermented fruit juice
cola de mono - alcoholic drink made with milk, coffee, cinnamon or vanilla, and
pisco
hierba mate - herb used in a hot drink, traditionally it
is put into a gourd called a mate and drunk with a filtered straw
leche con plátano - milk mixed with a fresh banana
mote con huesillos - traditional chilean drink made from mote
and huesillos(huesillos
are literally "little bones" but they're just dried peaches
ponche - alcoholic drink made of wine and peaches
in cubes
pisco - Chilean liquor made from distilling grape
juice
pisco sour - pisco with lemon juice
Seafood
almejas - clams
calamares - squid
camarones - shrimp
camarones grandes - prawns, gambas
centolla - Patagonian king crab
erizos - sea urchins
jaiva - crab, cangrejo
locos - different species of abalone
machas - razor clams
mejiones - mussels
ostiones - oysters
piure - a kind of shellfish (puré = mashed potatoes)
pulpo - octopus
Fish
albacora - swordfish
caldillo congrio - soup with conger, onions, and
potatoes
cojinova - Spanish hake
congrio - conger eel
corvina - deep-water fish, similar to Atlantic sea
bass
lenguado - sole
pejerreyes - small fish similar to Arctic
Norwegian whiting, sometimes called smelt
salmón - salmon
trucha - freshwater trout
Hungry for more? Some of the information on this page can be found in the book
"Three Generations of Chilean Cuisine" by Mirtha Umaña-Murray.
It's an excellent book that has a lot of great recipes and other
miscellaneous information about Chilean food. I highly recommend it.
The recipes are authentic recreations using ingredients easily found
in the United States. It has the best empanada recipe that I have found since I've been back in the States!
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