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Venezuelan Sancocho de Gallina
Hearty Venezuelan chicken and vegetable stew with corn, plantain, and yuca — the ultimate comfort soup.
⏱ 95 min🔥 380 kcalMedium
★4.8(287)
3 recipes using potatoes — Pabellón criollo, arepas, hallacas — rich, corn-based comfort food.
These 3 venezuelan potatoes recipes are ready in about 115 minutes on average, with 380–480 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.
Venezuelan cuisine — Pabellón criollo, arepas, hallacas — rich, corn-based comfort food — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Venezuelan cooks work with potatoes, 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 and sautéing.
The comforting carbohydrate that roasts, mashes, fries and bakes its way into cuisines worldwide. In this collection it's most often cooked with ground cumin, yuca and green plantain. The dishes here span venezuelan classics ready in as little as 95 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Sancocho de Gallina (Venezuelan Hen Stew) is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 720 ratings.
Hearty Venezuelan chicken and vegetable stew with corn, plantain, and yuca — the ultimate comfort soup.
Venezuelan hearty chicken and root vegetable stew with corn, yuca and plantain — a complete one-pot meal.
Venezuela's nourishing soul soup — a whole hen simmered with corn, plantain, yuca, and potato in a deeply aromatic herb broth.
Match the type to the dish: floury/starchy potatoes (Maris Piper, russet) for fluffy mash and crisp roasts; waxy ones for salads and gratins that need to hold their shape. Avoid green or sprouting tubers.
Store cool and dark, never in the fridge. Parboiling then roughing up the edges gives the crunchiest roast potatoes; soaking cut chips removes surface starch for crisper frying.
A filling source of potassium, vitamin C and resistant starch — most of the fibre and nutrients sit just under the skin.
Most of these 3 Venezuelan potatoes recipes are ready in around 115 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Venezuelan Sancocho de Gallina, takes about 95 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 150 minutes.
Across this collection they range from about 380 to 480 kcal per serving, averaging 447 kcal — Venezuelan Sancocho de Gallina is the lightest option at 380 kcal.
Venezuelan Sancocho de Gallina is a great place to start — it's rated medium and comes together in about 95 minutes. 0% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
In these recipes, potatoes is most often paired with ground cumin, yuca and green plantain. Venezuelan kitchens also lean on its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends.