Venezuela Breakfast Dishes

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Venezuelan Breakfast Recipes

Arepas with perico, cachitos from the panadería, a bowl of pisca andina in the mountains and a tequeño for the road: Venezuelan mornings start with corn.

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A Venezuelan breakfast is an arepa split and filled with perico, cheese or carne mechada, with sweet coffee on the side. Bakeries add cachitos de jamón and golfeados; the Andes add pisca andina, the milk and potato soup; and Zulia adds mandocas. Every recipe below is written for a home kitchen.

Venezuelan arepas stuffed for breakfast
The Morning Staple

Arepas

Precooked cornmeal, water and salt griddled into thick cakes, split open and stuffed with perico, queso de mano or reina pepiada.

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Venezuelan cachitos de jamón
Cachitos
Soft crescent rolls filled with ham, the panadería breakfast.
Venezuelan perico scrambled eggs
Perico
Eggs scrambled with tomato, onion and pepper, the classic arepa filling.
Venezuelan tequeños
Tequeños
Fried cheese sticks, breakfast or any time.
Venezuelan mandocas
Mandoca
Sweet plantain and corn rings from Zulia.
Pisca andina breakfast soup
Pisca Andina
Potato, milk, egg and cilantro soup from the Andes.
Reina pepiada arepa
Reina Pepiada
Arepa filled with chicken and avocado salad.
Venezuelan cachapa
Cachapa
Sweet corn pancake with queso de mano.
Venezuelan golfeados
Golfeados
Sticky papelón and cheese rolls from the bakery.

A Guide to Venezuelan Breakfast

Breakfast in Venezuela is built around the arepa, filled with perico, cheese or leftover carne mechada. The panadería supplies cachitos and golfeados, the highlands a bowl of pisca andina, and Zulia its mandocas. On weekends the griddle comes out for cachapas.

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