Chile Street Foods

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Chilean Street Food Recipes

From the loaded completo hot dog to golden empanadas de pino, Chile's kiosks and street carts serve up hearty, handheld favorites all day long.

Empanadas de Pino, Chilean Beef Empanadas Sopaipillas, Tasty Chilean Fried Dough Dessert Marraqueta: Chile’s Favorite Bread and Why You’ll Love It Completo, Chile’s Famous Hot Dog
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Chile's kiosks and street stands serve up hearty, portable classics, from loaded hot dogs to golden empanadas and fresh-baked bread, fueling daily life across the country.
Completo, Chile’s Famous Hot Dog
Chile's Most Iconic Street Food

Completo

Chile's beloved loaded hot dog: a soft bun piled high with mashed avocado, tomato, sauerkraut, and mayonnaise, sold at kiosks on nearly every corner.

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Empanadas de Pino, Chilean Beef Empanadas
Empanadas de Pino
Golden baked empanadas stuffed with seasoned ground beef, onion, olives, egg, and raisins, Chile's most popular hand pie.
Sopaipillas, Tasty Chilean Fried Dough Dessert
Sopaipillas
Pillowy fried dough rounds, crisp outside and soft within, sold hot from street carts especially on rainy days.
Marraqueta: Chile’s Favorite Bread and Why You’ll Love It
Marraqueta
Chile's everyday bread: a crusty, split-top roll baked fresh daily and piled high for sandwiches at bakeries and stands nationwide.
Glass of mote con huesillo
Mote con Huesillo
Sweet peach and wheat-berry drink sold from carts on every summer street.
Chilean humitas
Humitas
Steamed fresh-corn tamales, eaten with a spoonful of sugar or a slice of tomato.
Choripán with pebre
Choripán
Grilled chorizo in crusty bread with pebre, the sandwich of every Chilean asado.
Chilean anticuchos skewers
Anticuchos
Skewers of beef, sausage and onion grilled over coals at fairs and street stalls.
Chilean churros with manjar
Churros
Crisp fried dough dusted with sugar and filled with manjar.
Chilean ceviche
Chilean Ceviche
Chile’s lighter ceviche of white fish, lime, cilantro and onion.

Cooking Chile's Street Snacks at Home

Every recipe on this page is one you will meet on a Chilean sidewalk, and our guide to Chilean street food tells you where to find each one in Santiago and what it costs. Here you cook them: the completo with its tomato, palta and mayo; baked empanadas de pino; sopaipillas with pebre or chancaca; and the marraqueta that holds everything else.

Start with the recipes above, then see the full roundup of where to eat them in Chile, or explore all Chilean food and recipes from across Latin America and Spain.

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