# The best dishes of Colombia's Caribbean coast

Arepa de huevo, sancocho, carimañolas, coconut rice and suero: Caribbean Colombian cooking with Indigenous, African, Spanish and Arab roots.

- 58 votes · 19 items
- Mar 5, 2019 · veggie.canalla
- https://even.best/en/l/3607/the-best-dishes-of-colombia-s-caribbean-coast

## Top 19

1. **Coastal sancocho** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Made with tripe, ribs, fish, hen or goat.
2. **Patacones** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Smashed fried green plantain.
3. **Coconut rice** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Rice cooked in coconut milk, served with fish.
4. **Egg arepa** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Fried arepa stuffed with egg, the most famous of the coast.
5. **Mullet rice** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Rice with salted mullet.
6. **Costeño cheese** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Salty white Caribbean cheese.
7. **Seafood stew** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Creamy seafood stew.
8. **Vermicelli rice** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Arab rice with toasted vermicelli.
9. **Boronía** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Mash of aubergine and ripe plantain.
10. **Bollos** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Wrapped cassava or corn rolls with suero and cheese.
11. **Kibbeh** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Arab heritage: wheat and meat croquettes.
12. **Soledad sausage** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Small sausages from Soledad.
13. **Enyucado** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sweet cake of cassava, coconut and cheese.
14. **Diabolines** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Starch biscuits from La Sabana.
15. **Coconut candies** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Coconut sweets sold by the palenqueras.
16. **Carimañolas** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Cassava fritters filled with meat or cheese.
17. **Fried mojarra** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Fried tilapia with patacones and coconut rice.
18. **Friche** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fried goat offal from La Guajira.
19. **Suero costeño** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Coastal sour cream, related to labneh.

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