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Ajiaco Bogotano
Bogotá's great contribution to the world's soups — a hearty, warming chicken and three-potato stew thickened with guasca herb, served with capers, cream and avocado.
⏱ 110 min🔥 490 kcalMedium
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13 recipes using garlic — Ajiaco, bandeja paisa, arepas — hearty and vibrant Andean cooking.
These 13 colombian garlic recipes are ready in about 173 minutes on average, with 360–1280 kcal per serving, and 0% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
Colombian cuisine — Ajiaco, bandeja paisa, arepas — hearty and vibrant Andean cooking — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Colombian cooks work with garlic, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, frying and grilling.
The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with ground cumin, onion, eggs, spring onions, fresh cilantro and avocados sliced. The dishes here span colombian classics ready in as little as 65 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Empanadas Colombianas is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 3,210 ratings.
Bogotá's great contribution to the world's soups — a hearty, warming chicken and three-potato stew thickened with guasca herb, served with capers, cream and avocado.
Colombia's most legendary meal — a monumental platter from the Antioquia region featuring red beans, chicharrón, minced beef, chorizo, fried egg, sweet plantain, avocado, hogao sauce and rice.
Crispy corn dough empanadas filled with seasoned beef, potato and egg — Colombia's most popular street food, fried golden and served with ají sauce.
Colombia's legendary platter from the Paisa region — a mountainous spread of beans, rice, ground beef, chicharrón, fried egg, chorizo, avocado, and plantain.
Colombia's great restorative soup — a slow-simmered stew of chicken or beef with yuca, corn, plantain, and potatoes in a deeply flavored broth seasoned with cilantro and cumin.
Colombia's iconic slow-roasted stuffed whole pig, packed with rice, peas, and spices — the king of festive cooking.
Bogotá's iconic thick chicken soup made with three types of potato and guascas herb — hearty, unique and deeply comforting.
Colombia's great hearty stew — chicken, yuca, plantain, corn and potato simmered in a golden, herb-scented broth. Sunday lunch across the nation.
Colombian whole roasted pig stuffed with rice, peas and spiced pork — the ultimate celebration centrepiece from Tolima.
Bogotá's three-potato chicken soup with corn, capers, cream, and guascas — Colombia's most comforting bowl.
A creamy, herb-perfumed Andean soup of chicken, three varieties of potato, sweet corn and the indispensable native herb guascas, finished with capers, cream and avocado — the soul of Bogotá.
Colombian platter with beans, rice, beef, chicharrón, eggs, plantain, avocado — Antioquia's mountain feast.
Bogotá's iconic chicken and three-potato soup with corn, capers, and cream — Andean comfort.
Pick firm, heavy heads with tight, papery skin and no green shoots or soft spots. Fresh garlic far outperforms jarred pre-minced, which tastes flat and slightly sour.
Crush to release more of its pungent compounds, slice for a milder bite, or roast whole until jammy and sweet. Add minced garlic late and keep it moving — it burns and turns bitter in seconds.
Eaten in small amounts, but a source of allicin and other sulphur compounds linked to heart and immune benefits.
Most of these 13 Colombian garlic recipes are ready in around 173 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Empanadas Colombianas, takes about 65 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 720 minutes.
Across this collection they range from about 360 to 1280 kcal per serving, averaging 645 kcal — Empanadas Colombianas is the lightest option at 360 kcal.
Empanadas Colombianas is a great place to start — it's rated medium and comes together in about 65 minutes. 0% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
In these recipes, garlic is most often paired with ground cumin, onion, eggs, spring onions, fresh cilantro and avocados sliced. Colombian kitchens also lean on its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends.