🇻🇪Venezuelan Recipes
Discover Venezuelan cuisine — arepas, pabellón criollo, hallacas, cachapas, and Caribbean-Andean corn-based cooking.
3 recipes
Venezuelan cuisine centers on maize, with the arepa (grilled corn cake, split and filled) as the daily staple and the reina pepiada its iconic filling. Pabellón criollo (shredded beef, black beans, rice, fried plantain) is the national dish; hallacas (banana-leaf corn parcels) anchor Christmas. Distinct from Colombian cooking through cachapas, the sweeter arepa style, and guasacaca sauce.
🧂 Essential Pantry
Masarepa (precooked corn flour)Black beans (caraotas)PlantainsQueso blancoSofrito (onion, pepper, garlic)CilantroBeefAnnatto (onoto)RiceAvocado
📂 Browse by category
mediumVenezuelan · Main Courses
Asado Negro (Asado negro) — Venezuelan Dark-Caramel Beef Roast
Caracas-style asado negro is a Venezuelan beef roast lacquered with dark papelon caramel and slow-braised until sliceable. It appears at Christmas tables with hallaca and in family meals alongside arroz blanco, caraotas, or an arepa for leftovers, part of the same beloved table culture as pabellon criollo.
245 min 8 428 cal
