Chile

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Chile

11 recipes

Lightly browned baked chapalele in a rustic bowl, with one broken piece showing its tender potato-rich center.

Chapalele

A baked Chiloé chapalele based on Gourmet's recipe: smooth cooked potato mixed with wheat flour, baking powder, sea salt and butter, shaped into 16 pieces.

Chiloé · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Thick round Chilean tortilla de rescoldo with a golden, ember-marked crust and a pale wheat crumb.

Tortilla de rescoldo

A Chilean hearth bread from Quilleco, leavened with instant yeast and bicarbonate, then cooked under hot ash in a traditional ember hearth.

Quilleco
· Grains and starches
A basket of plain, round, fork-docked pan amasado rolls, shown as an illustrative home-batch serving.

Pan amasado (Chilean Country Bread)

Small, fork-docked wheat rolls made with yeast, water, sugar and butter, a modern home version of Chilean pan amasado.

Chile · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Coarse red-brown merkén seasoning in a small ceramic bowl, with dried red chiles beside it.

Merkén

Merkén is the Mapuche seasoning of dried, smoked and ground ají cacho de cabra chile, sometimes with toasted coriander seed and salt, made in the Maule and La Araucanía regions of Chile.

Maule region, Chile
· Condiments
Golden Chilean marraqueta with crisp crust and the characteristic joined four-lobe shape.

Chilean marraqueta

A lean Chilean wheat loaf shaped as two joined lobes, chilled overnight, then baked with steam for a crisp, deeply browned crust.

Chile · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Illustrative serving of muday de trigo, a cloudy wheat drink with suspended cooked grain; not a verified photograph of the recorded Osorno batch.
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Muday de trigo

Muday de trigo is a wheat-and-honey fermented drink recorded from vendors at Feria Rahue in Osorno; this contemporary batch cooks and grinds the grain before fermentation.

Osorno (Feria Rahue) · Modern adaptation
· Drinks
Three thin, golden Chilean churrascas on a cast-iron skillet, one torn at the edge.

Chilean churrascas

Six quick Chilean wheat flatbreads made with oil, baking soda and baking powder, then cooked in a dry skillet.

Chile · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Pebre.

Pebre

Pebre is a Chilean condiment with many local versions. This partial fresh tomato version follows Chile Travel’s ingredients; vinegar is optional. Sources document picante heat and variants but no fixed proportions or precise origin.

Chile
Condiments
Golden fried milcao potato cakes, one split to show the pale potato interior, served on a plain white plate.

Milcao

Chiloé potato cakes combine cooked mashed potatoes with drained raw grated potato; this measured version is fried and yields 20.

Chiloé · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Smooth homogeneous Chilean chancho en piedra freshly ground in a dark stone mortar with its pestle.

Chancho en piedra

Chancho en piedra is a Chilean sauce of tomato, garlic, cumin and chilli, ground by hand in a stone mortar. Its name refers to the stone, not to pork.

Talca
Condiments
Three golden Chilean hallullas with characteristic fork marks on a linen cloth.

Chilean hallullas

Round Chilean yeast breads made with shortening, rolled and folded, then cut, pricked and baked until golden.

Chile · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches