Venezuelan Food

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And sear it.

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Into the pressure cooker with some beef broth.

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40 minutes of high pressure cooking later, take it out.

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And shred it, removing any bits of gristle.

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Now let's start our sofrito. We've got onion, bell pepper, tomato, garlic, culantro, and cilantro. I'm using dried culantro because my culantro seeds have not yet sprouted.

>tfw proper ajies dulces are rarer than unicorns in the US

oh fuck I love arepas

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Clean the pot and activate saute mode. Beginning with just the onions.

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Once the onions are translucent, add the bell pepper and tomato

>>7908182
Ultimate comfort food, tbqh

>Venezuelan
>having food

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After that's cooked down for a while, add the garlic, cook a couple minutes more, then add the cilantro and culantro.

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And mix in the meat. Add salt to taste at this point, and after cooking them together for a couple minutes, set it aside and keep it hot.

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Now let's start our arepas. If you're not mashing the corn by hand like in the olden days, then this is the ONLY corn flour you can use. No other brand will do.

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can you make me a piece of toast, OP?

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Mix the flour, a bit of salt, a glug or two of oil, and water until it looks like this.

>>7908205
Coming up, amigo.

>>7908193
send help pls

>>7908208
are you a rich Venezuelan? how can you afford all this food

are you abroad?

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Form the dough into patties. If crack appear at the edges, then your dough is too dry and you should add more water and reform them.

Now fry them in your favorite meme iron pan.

Since I'm frying these instead of baking them, they're technically tostadas instead of arepas. But there are no autists here that would get triggered by that, right?

>>7908211
I live in the US.

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Fry them until they're GB&D, as mi amigo Alton Brown would say.

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And with the magic of television, here's a bunch more!

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And finally, cut them open and fill em' up with carne mechada.

That's all, folks!

>>7908234
Looks good. Will try. Gracias.

There goes my no fap month.

>>7908247
Thanks man, you won't be disappointed.

>>7908211
>You have to be Venezuelan to make Venezuelan food

>>7908277
You don't, though I am Venezuelan. I'm also American though, which is why I'm not starving.

Thanks OP, there is an arepas place in my city, would be nice to make them myself. Are there any other traditional fillings?

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>>7908208
where's the toast you promised me

Noice. Gonna try this with some casava flour.

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>>7908295
Another very common one is black beans. To make them Venezuelan style, make the same sofrito I showed in this thread, but mix in cooked black beans instead of meat. To make what we call "domino", take that mixture and mix it with queso blanco. I've never seen Venezuelan queso blanco in the US, but Salvadoreno queso blanco is a very good substitute. The cheese should be white, hard, crumbly, and slightly salty.

We also do them with just butter and cheese, or with scrambled eggs. But really you can fill an arepa with just about anything at all. If it's edible, it probably tastes good in an arepa.

>>7908301
Here you go.