Food

Hallulla 

Small round or square loaves of white bakery bread

Manjar

i.e., Dulce de leche, which is comparable to caramel

Cazuela

Traditional soup with beans, squash (zapallo), potatoes, carrots, etc. and a big hunk of meat (beef, chicken, pork, what have you)

Completo

Hot dog in a dense bun with tomatoes, avocado, mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, onions, etc.

Empanada

Fried or baked pastry with any range of fillings - cheese, vegetables, seafood, meat, etc.  There are several specific types, but the most common are:
  • Pino - beef, onion, hard-boiled egg, olives
  • Napolitano - ham, cheese, tomatoes, olives

Chorrillana/Lomo a lo Pobre

French fries topped with beef, topped with onion, topped with eggs

Choripan

Hot dog/sausage in a bakery bread bun

Sopaipilla

Corn-based dough that's deep fried and covered with butter, manjar, honey, marmalade, powdered sugar, or any other array of toppings

Pastel de Choclo

Literally "corn pie," kind of like cornbread in a filling form with meat and olives on the bottom and some raisins thrown in there

Alfajor

Two cookie-type things layered with manjar between them and covered in chocolate

Hot Dogs, Ketchup, and Mayonnaise

These are the staples of the Chilean diet and complement pretty much anything.  For example, Alice has made me mixed vegetables, potatoes, and a hot dog on the side.  Or like pasta and a hot dog.  The other day at a church lunch we had tacos.....with hot dog.  Like, normal taco meat and toppings but with hot dogs to add to it.  Ketchup and mayonnaise can be used to top anything, too; tacos for example.

Mote con Huesillos

The "mote" part is dried apricots, and the "huesillos" (literally translated as "little bones") are wheat berries.  These are in a cup of a super sweet apricot juice/syrup with cinnamon mixed in.  

Tortilla

Not your typical flour tortilla; if you've heard of the Spanish (i.e. from Spain) version, it's more like that.  Enormous pan-fried, quiche-ish type of cake thing, usually with egg, spinach, maybe potato and some ham or sausage mixed in.  

Salad

The ingredients of the salads here are pretty similar, but nothing is mixed together.  Lettuce, tomato slices, grated carrots, avocado, olives, what have you, but all separate.  

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