Colombia 🇨🇴 Food and Travel Guide | Bogota | Salento | Pereira 2021 Vlog [4K]

Colombian cuisine is a compound of the culinary traditions of the six main regions within the country (Pacific, Amazonian, Andean, Orinoco, Caribbean, and Insular). Colombian cuisine varies regionally and is particularly influenced by Indigenous Colombian, Spanish, and African cuisines, with slight Arab influence in some regions. Furthermore, being one of the most diverse countries in the world, Colombia has one of the widest variety of available ingredients depending on the region from fish to meat.

Because the region of Quindio is known for its trout fisheries, Trucha or trout is a favorite of the Colombian people. Trout is very versatile and can be prepared by grilling, broiling, frying or baking.

I sampled lots of great food during my solo trip in Colombia, and here's some of it! From Salento to Bogota. Let's eat!

1. Arepa
The Arepa is a pastry that is made from maize flour or corn meal.

2. Assorted Colombian Bakery

3. Empanadas
Colombian empanadas boast an outer crust made with masarepa, which is Colombian precooked cornmeal.

4. Picada
The appetizing dish is a combination of meat, yucca, plantains and potatoes and anything else we want or have at hand. The delicious taste of papas criollas (Colombian yellow potatoes) takes center stage in the picada. Just imagine how deliciously they compliment chorizo or ribs.

5. Pollo en salsa de champiñones
Grilled chicken with mushroom sauce.

6. Trucha en salsa de champiñones
Trout in mushroom sauce.

7. Caldo de costilla
Caldo de costilla is a dish typical of Colombian cuisine, from the Andean region. It is made mainly from beef ribs boiled in water with slices of potato, some garlic, onion and cilantro leaves. The caldo de costilla is eaten mainly during breakfast, and it eaten often with arepa, chocolate and bread.

8. Pescado al ajillo
Trout with garlic sauce, pescado al ajillo is a popular dish on the Atlantic Coast of Colombia.

9. Yuka
Fried yuca or yuca fries is a dish that is very well known in many Latin American countries, Colombia being one of them. It is often served as an appetizer with lime wedges and any kind of dipping sauce such as pink sauce, garlic mayo or guacamole.

10. Tabla Mixta
All sorts of grilled meats come with rice, beans, salad, cassava, plantains and fries.

11. Bagre en salsa
Catfish in sweet and sour tomatoes sauce.

12. Bandeja paisa
Bandeja Paisa is regarded as the national dish of Colombia.This hearty dish includes red beans, white rice, chicharrón, carne en polvo, chorizo, fried egg, ripe plantain, avocado and arepa.

13Cabro Santandereano. Paella
Paella is a rice dish originally from Valencia. For this reason, many non-Spaniards view it as Spain's national dish. I found an authentic Paella restaurant in Salento, in which the chef and restaurant owners hailed from Madrid, Spain.

Some of the recommended Colombian dishes that are excluded in the video:

1) Changua
Changua is a popular Colombian breakfast soup with broth made from milk and poached eggs. Cilantro and chopped green onion flavor, this broth, while toasting bread is served on top to give this soup a unique look and texture.

2) Roscón
A ring pastry that topped with raw sugar and filled with guava paste. Roscón is very light and airy and when paired with fresh coconut ice cream it is a great finish to any good meal.

3) Colombian Ceviche
Served cold, this dish contains fresh fish such as red snapper, octopus or shrimp. When marinated in lime juice the seafood "cooks" by acidity and becomes very flavorful.

4) Cabro Santandereano
Marinated goat meat that has been marinated until tender, and then grilled to a smoky finish.

5) Maracuya
Maracuya is a rich source of Vitamin C and believed to aid in digestion.

6) Sancocho de Pescado con Coco
This coconut and fish stew usually includes chunks of local fish such as Spanish mackerel or snapper.

7) Sancocho
Colombian chicken soup includes large pieces of chicken and cob corn as well as chunks of yucca and plantains.

8) Ajiaco
Ajiaco is a hearty stew containing corn, chicken and three different types of potatoes, with one being the purple skinned Andean potato that is only grown in that region of the world. The chicken in Ajiaco is most often large pieces severed still on the bone and the corn included in this dish is served on the cob as well.

9) Pechuga a la plancha
Chicken breasts cooked on a flat-top grill or griddle.

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