With its long stretch of coastline, Chile has a wide variety of food and drink to enjoy. Chile boasts some of the best seafood in Latin America due to its extensive Atlantic Coast. Like it's neighboring Argentina, Chile also produces excellent red wine. Listed below are some items you may come across on a typical Chilean menu.

Empanda de Pine - A turnover filled with diced meat, onions, olive, raisins and a piece of hard-boiled egg.
Empanada de Queso -turnover filled with cheese.
Pastel de Choclo - a summer dish of ground meat, corn, onions, chicken, hard boiled egg, olives and raisins.
Bistec a lo Pobre - steak topped with fried eggs and onions and served with French fries.
Carbonada - A soup with diced beef and vegetables such as potatoes, onions, carrots, broccoli, green pepper and parsley.
Chanco en Peidra - Tomatoes, garlic, and onions grounded together in a stone, which is a typical seasoning used in many dishes.
Charquican - ground or diced meat cooked with garlic, onions, potatoes and pumpkin all mashed together.
Cazuela de Ave - chicken soup with meat, potatoes, green beans or peas, rice or noodles.
Cazuela de Vacuno - beef soup with pieces of meat, potatoes, corn on the cob, carrots, onions, green beans, garlic, chunks of pumpkin, rice or noodles.
Costillar de Chancho - baked spare ribs.
Ensalada a la Chilena - sliced tomatoes and onions with an oil dressing.
Humitas - boiled corn leaf rolls filled with seasoned ground corn.
Palta Reina - avocado filled with tuna fish or ham covered with mayonnaise and served on lettuce leaves.
Parrillada - various types of meat and sausages grilled over charcoal and served with potato salad or rice.
Pebre - a topping made of tomatoes, onions, chili, coriander, and chives and served in a small clay dish.
Pernil - boiled ham hock
Porotos Granados - fresh bean dish with ground corn and pieces of pumpkin.
Sopaipilla - a flat circular deep fried bread made of pumpkin and flour.

Chilean Seafood
Almejas con Limon - raw clams with lemon juice.
Caldillo de Congrio - conger-eel soup with onions, potatoes and carrots
Ceviche - minced raw sea bass in lemon juice.
Congrio Frito - deep-fried conger eel
Chupe de Locos - abalone bread pudding
Empanada de Marisco - turnovers filled with chopped seafood onions and seasoning
Mariscal - cold soup with different kinds of raw seafood
Ostiones a la Parmesana - scallops on the shells in melted butter and covered with grilled Parmesan cheese.
Machas a la Parmesana - parmesan cheese raisor clams

Chilean Sandwiches
Aliado - ham and cheese sandwich
Ave Palta - diced chicken meat and mashed avocado
Ave Pimienta - diced chicken meat and red pepper
Barros Jarpa - grilled cheese and ham on white bun
Barros Luco - grilled cheese and meat on white bread
Chacarero - sliced meat, green beans, chili and tomatoes
Churrasco - beef sandwich
Churrsco con Tomate - thin sliced meat and slices of tomato on white bun
Churrasco con Palta - thin sliced meat, mashed avocado on white bun
Hamburguesa - hamburger patty. It isn't always served between buns.
Lomito Completo - sliced pork meat with sauerkraut, mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup
Pan Amasado - homemade bread

Typical Chilean Deserts
Manjar - a brown spread or cake filling made from boiled milk and sugar. It is used in many cakes and desserts.
Mote con Huesillo - cooked dried peaches and stewed corn
Papaya con Crema - papaya preserves with whipped cream.
Bavarois de Lucuma - bavarois (type of custard) of a variety of eggfruit
Alfajor - a flat round pastry filled with manjar and covered in Chocolate
Berlin - a round donut filled with manjar or jam/jelly
Kuchen - a German fruit flan often found in the South of Chile

Chilean Drinks
Cola de Mono - Aguardiente liquor with milk, Cinnamon, coffee and sugar. Traditional holiday drink.
Jote - red wine with Cola.
Leche con Platano - fresh milk blended with banana.
Navegado - heated red wine with slices of orange and sugar.
Pisco - Chilean brandy liquor made from distilled grapes. Normally produced in the Valle del Elqui area in the Fourth region.
Pisco Sour - popular Chilean cocktail made with pisco, lemon juice and sugar, one egg white, and sugar, shaken well.
Piscola - pisco with Cola and ice.
Vaina - sweet cocktail drink. Ingredients: port wine and sugar - shaken together and after serving, sprinkled with cinnamon.
Vino Blanco - white vine.
Vino Tinto - red wine.

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