The origin of Colombian cuisine
Discovering Colombian gastronomy also allows you to travel through its history, full of crossbreeding between the different cultures that have crossed these lands and the indigenous peoples originating from the country.
To talk about the origins of Colombian cuisine, we have to go back to pre-Columbian times. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the Colombian territory was inhabited by hundreds of ethnic groups with diverse gastronomic customs.
Corn was considered a “God” for indigenous people, which is why it is currently an omnipresent ingredient in Colombian gastronomy. During colonization, Colombian cuisine merged with the ingredients, practices, culinary traditions and gastronomic customs of the different populations that immigrated.
The Africans, who arrived in slavery with the Spanish colonists, brought us rice, cassava, beans, palm and coconut oil. The Spanish brought wheat, sugar cane, as well as beef, pork, lamb and chicken. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, there was a historic immigration of populations from Syria and Lebanon to the territory of the Colombian Caribbean coast, and with them, eggplants and lentils arrived in gastronomy Colombian.
TYPICAL DISHES
In Colombia, there is not just one typical dish, but rather a feast of flavors that will make you dance!
Here are some of the most popular dishes that will make you say “oh my!”