Ingredients:
Paisa Platter must be served in large oval-shaped trays. There are 13 main ingredients that must be present for the dish to be considered a canonical Bandeja Paisa:
- Red beans cooked with pork
- White rice
- Ground meat
- Pork rind
- Fried eggs
- Plantain Patacones
- Chorizo with Lemon
- Arepa
- Hogao sauce
- Black pudding
- Avocado
There are several variants of the dish all over the country with deletion or addition of ingredients, which cannot be recognized as Bandeja Paisa in stricto sensu. Some Antioquian restaurants offer an “extended” Bandeja Paisa, also known as “Seven Meats Platter” which contains, besides the afforementioned ingredients: grilled steak, grilled pork and Liver. A dieting friendly version of the dish is very popular inBogota, which replaces pork with grilled chicken breast, black pudding with salad and chorizo with a weenie. -(Wikepedia)
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