# The best traditional Chilean foods

The most popular Chilean dishes, from Independence Day pino empanadas to Valparaíso's chorrillana, according to Forbes Chile and food guides.

- 78 votes · 14 items
- Nov 9, 2025 · Javiera González
- https://even.best/en/l/133/the-best-traditional-chilean-foods

## Top 12

1. **Empanada de pino** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — Baked and filled with minced beef and onion, boiled egg, olive and raisins; the queen of the September holidays.
2. **Pastel de choclo** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Beef and chicken filling under a sweetcorn paste with sugar, baked in a clay dish.
3. **Curanto** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Seafood, meats, potatoes and milcaos cooked in a pit with hot stones, from Chiloé.
4. **Cazuela** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Broth with a piece of beef or chicken, potato, squash, corn and rice.
5. **Sopaipillas** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Fried squash dough, with pebre or soaked in chancaca syrup in winter.
6. **Chorrillana** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Chips topped with strips of beef, onion and fried egg, born in Valparaíso.
7. **Caldillo de congrio** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Conger eel soup with potatoes and vegetables, to which Pablo Neruda wrote an ode.
8. **Completo italiano** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Hot dog with avocado, tomato and mayonnaise, the colours of the Italian flag.
9. **Paila marina** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Hot seafood and fish soup in a clay bowl.
10. **Humitas** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Sweetcorn paste with onion and basil wrapped in corn husks.
11. **Machas a la parmesana** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Razor clams baked with parmesan and white wine.
12. **Porotos granados** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Fresh beans with corn, squash and basil, a summer dish.
13. **Chacarero** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Steak sandwich with green beans, tomato and green chilli.
14. **Charquicán** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Stew of potato, squash and minced beef, served with a fried egg.

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