Venezuelan food (Arepas).

This is the first post referred to Venezuelan food and the obvious dish I must talk about is the arepa.  It is an everyday food in any Venezuelan table, specially for breakfast. It is a simple food made from cornmeal which looks like a small cake. It was already popular before the Spanish colonization and the tradition have been kept until today.

Also a traditional dish in Colombia and Panama, the arepa by itself is kind of flavorless but it is combined  with many other ingredients making this food's possible combinations limitless.

(Arepas cooked with firewood).

After preparing and cooking the arepa you open it helped by a knife like an oyster and you fill it with whatever you want: ham, cheese, butter, meat, chicken, eggs, pork, fish and many more.

Until some decades ago the process to cook arepas was long and complicated because the corn had to be milled first but everything changed since the corn flour was invented. It can also be fried (less healthy but tastier, like everything good in the world haha). Another type of arepa, made with wheat flour instead of corn, is prepared in the region of Los Andes. This variant of the dish is also very tasty.

It is not popular only for breakfast or dinner but it is also a very common food after going to a nightclub or parting until late because there are many establishments opened 24 hours called "areperas" that sells many kinds of Venezuelan food but specially arepas. It usually takes a few seconds from the moment you order it to the moment you are eating it and it is so helpful to avoid a hangover if you were drinking.

And now I will share this video I found in youtube where you can see how an arepera is and how the arepas are served.

Would you try an arepa? What are the most popular dishes in your country?