Colombian Breakfast Dishes

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Colombian Breakfast Recipes

Arepas with butter and cheese, huevos pericos, calentado made from last night's beans and rice, and hot chocolate with cheese melted in: the Colombian morning.

Huevos Pericos Calentado Arepas Changua +2
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Colombian breakfast is savory and substantial. Arepas come first, with butter, cheese or an egg on top; huevos pericos are scrambled with tomato and scallion; calentado reheats yesterday's beans and rice with a fried egg; and in the highlands changua and hot chocolate with cheese keep the cold out.
Huevos Pericos
Colombia's Everyday Eggs

Huevos Pericos

Eggs scrambled with tomato, scallion and a little butter, served with arepas and hot chocolate. The breakfast every Colombian grew up on, ready in ten minutes.

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Calentado
Calentado
Last night's beans and rice fried together and topped with a fried egg and arepa.
Arepas
Arepas
The corn cakes griddled every morning, split and buttered or topped with cheese and egg.
Changua
Changua
Bogotá's milk and egg breakfast soup with scallions and cilantro.
Colombian tamales
Tamales
Banana-leaf bundles of corn dough, pork and chicken, eaten with hot chocolate.
Almojábana
Almojábana
Boyacá's soft cheese-and-corn buns, eaten warm with coffee.
Pan de Yuca
Pan de Yuca
Chewy yuca-flour cheese rolls from the coast, a breakfast and a snack.

A Guide to Colombian Breakfast

A Colombian breakfast starts with an arepa and builds from there: huevos pericos scrambled with tomato and scallion, or calentado, the fried leftovers of beans and rice that Colombians will tell you taste better on day two. Bakeries add almojábanas and pan de yuca still warm, and in the cold highlands the bowl is changua, a milk broth with an egg poached in it.

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