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Venezuelan Chicken Recipes

5 recipes using chicken — Pabellón criollo, arepas, hallacas — rich, corn-based comfort food.

Venezuelan cuisine is famous for its bold, distinctive flavours. These venezuelan chicken recipes range from quick weeknight dishes ready in under 30 minutes to impressive weekend feasts. Each recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions, and full calorie counts per serving.

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breakfast

Arepas Venezolanas

Venezuela's daily bread — golden, crispy-shelled corn cakes made from precooked cornmeal, split open and stuffed with any combination of cheese, black beans, shredded beef or avocado.

⏱ 30 min🔥 290 kcalEasy

★4.8(1,678)

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✨ Newbreakfast

Venezuelan Arepas

Thick, golden cornmeal cakes, griddled and then split open and filled — Venezuela's daily bread, eaten at every meal and endlessly versatile.

⏱ 35 min🔥 420 kcalEasy

★4.8(4,231)

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✨ Newdinner

Hallacas — Venezuelan Christmas Tamales

Cornmeal packages filled with a fragrant slow-cooked stew of beef, pork and chicken with olives, raisins and peppers, wrapped in banana leaves and steamed — Venezuela's most cherished Christmas tradition.

⏱ 240 min🔥 480 kcalHard

★4.9(2,143)

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dinner

Hallaca

Venezuela's Christmas treasure — corn dough filled with a rich stew of beef, pork, and chicken with olives, capers, and raisins, wrapped in banana leaves and steamed.

⏱ 240 min🔥 480 kcalHard

★4.9(890)

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