Guys, you won’t believe how proud I am for introducing arepa de huevo to you. Finally. Think a fried corn flatbread that is filled with egg. Essentially it has only three ingredients: corn flour, egg, and oil (you can count water and salt as additional ingredients if you wish). It may sound simple, but boy, did I have difficulties making this snack. The first time I was fortunate enough of eating them was directly at the coast in Cartagena, Colombia. Arepa de huevo is famous in Cartagena and enjoyed throughout the country. I will never forget when I ate arepa de huevo at a street stall in Cartagena. This women seemed to touch the oil with her bare hands. She didn’t seem to get burned. It all looked so effortless, she was at ease and was frying arepas by the second. They are super crunchy at the outside and this egg in the middle, yum. Below you will see a picture of me in Cartagena enjoying the food.
I am introducing BBQ season today, Colombian style. Below you will find all recipes for the typical Colombian sides served at a BBQ plus links to the meats. I was not paid to do this, I wanted to give you a nice overview of where to get what for a Colombian BBQ when living in Germany. As I am married to a Colombian, he is always eager to eat Colombian food. So when we were on holiday in Spain and his family suggested an “asado colombiano”, he got super excited. I was excited as well and took the opportunity to snap pictures of it all. Some pictures are from another time as we didn’t have corn on the cob this time and I wanted to be sure to include it in the list of sides below.
Finally I am introducing the basic recipe for arepas on my blog! Arepas are a flatbread made from cornmeal. They are most popular in Colombia and Venezuela. As a German I have to say that these countries offer the same kind of varieties of arepas as breads are offered here. I already introduced arepas boyacenses, however, so far the basic recipe was missing. The reason being simple, I just felt I still didn’t know how to make perfect arepas even though it only consists of three ingredients, cornmeal, water, and salt. But now the waiting is finally over, below I am offering many tips. Hopefully they will make you confident enough so that your first arepas turn out great from the start. If making the very basic recipe, arepas are naturally gluten-free and vegan.
Today I am excited to say that this is a treat you most likely haven’t heard of if you are not Colombian: roscónes. Sweet yeast bread is already a good start, then add some cool guava paste (called bocadillo in Colombia, it has many other names in other Latin American countries) and you have a very exotic mix. I think only Colombians can create something, which is like breakfast and dessert merged into one piece of deliciousness. Yeast dough? For sure! Fancy braiding of said dough? You betcha! Excotic guava filling? Nothing less!








