# The best traditional Colombian dishes

A tour of Colombia's regions through their best-loved dishes, from bandeja paisa to ajiaco and lechona, according to Colombia.co and food guides.

- 33 votes · 16 items
- Apr 17, 2023 · Juan David P.
- https://even.best/en/l/132/the-best-traditional-colombian-dishes

## Top 15

1. **Bandeja paisa** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Beans, rice, minced beef, pork crackling, chorizo, fried egg, plantain, arepa and avocado; the dish of Antioquia.
2. **Sancocho trifásico** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Broth with beef, pork and chicken, cassava, plantain and corn; Sunday food all over the country.
3. **Arepa de huevo** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Fried arepa with an egg inside, typical of the Caribbean coast (Luruaco).
4. **Lechona tolimense** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Whole pig stuffed with rice, peas and its own meat, roasted for hours in a clay oven.
5. **Ajiaco santafereño** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Chicken soup with three potatoes and guascas herb, served with capers, cream and avocado; from Bogotá.
6. **Tamal tolimense** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Corn dough with rice, pork, chicken, egg and vegetables wrapped in banana leaf.
7. **Changua** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Milk broth with egg, spring onion, coriander and bread; breakfast in Bogotá and Boyacá.
8. **Colombian empanadas** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Corn dough filled with potato and meat, fried and served with ají.
9. **Mute santandereano** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Thick soup of hulled corn, chickpeas, meats and potato, from Santander.
10. **Posta negra cartagenera** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Beef cooked in panela and cola until dark and sticky.
11. **Fritanga** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A sharing platter of chorizo, blood sausage, crackling, criolla potatoes and plantain.
12. **Ternera a la llanera** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Veal slowly roasted on stakes beside the fire, in the Eastern Plains.
13. **Fried mojarra with patacones and coconut rice** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The beach lunch of Colombia's Caribbean coast.
14. **Cazuela de mariscos** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Creamy seafood stew with coconut milk, from the Pacific and Caribbean.
15. **Chuleta valluna** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Breaded and fried pork loin, typical of Cali.
16. **Mote de queso** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yam soup with coastal cheese and suero, from Córdoba and Sucre.

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