Colombian Arepa with Shredded Beef is a wonderful lunch. This arepa is topped with carne desmechada or ropa vieja, ripe plantains and avocado.
Arepa con Carne Desmechada (Arepa with Shredded Meat)
Ingredients
- 4 arepas corn cakes, cooked
- 1 carne desmechada shredded meat recipe
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 large ripe plantain peeled and diced
- 1 avocado diced
- fresh cilantro for ganish
Instructions
- In a medium skillet, melt the butter and add the diced plantains. Brown the plantains for about 3 minutes and set aside.
- Place an arepa on a serving plate, top with the carne desmechada and add avocado and plantain.
- Sprinkle fresh cilantro and serve.
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If you are a regular reader you know that my little sister is visiting from Colombia and we are having a lot of fun together. We laugh, talk and eat all day! It is great having a little sister around, don't you think? I love my brother and sister very much and I wish I could spend more quality time with them. The hardest thing about living away from my country is not being able to see my family as often as I would like.
Anyway, let's talk about arepas, shall we? This week I made this arepa recipe for lunch and we both loved it! Just think about a corn cake topped with your favorite ingredients. To me, there is nothing better than arepa 🙂
In this arepa I used shredded meat (carne desmechada), avocado and sweet plantain for the topping. Simple, but absolutely delicious.
Buen Provecho!
recetas rellenas
Thanks for recipe 😀
Carlos
The meat orginally used for this recipe is overbelly, the meat is cooked in hot water flavored with a bouquet garni,until very tender, along side this, there has to be a colombian mojo or (hogao) oftenly made with juicy tomatoes and long tail onions, sliced and cooked with cumin and bay leaf, and salt, until slighltly being reduced, mixed with the shredded meat (carne desmechada), this meat is put inside an arepa (corn cakes) cut in half.
Luz Adriana
I made last week carne mechada with ripe plantain for a potluck at office and everybody said that the taste of meat and plantain was soo good!
Chris Caldwell
Erica, Thank you for your receipe of Colombian tamales. I came to the
US when I was 13 and still remember those wonderful tamales, arepas
empanadas and so many other delicious food.
My mom had a friend that would make arepas with Masa Harina, she
would use bacon grease and brown sugar, they were so good. Maybe
not so healthy but delicious. Once a year wouldn't be so bad......
Thank you again for your receipe. Chris~
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y are the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Janis
I love the arepas with shredded meat. it remains me when i was leaving in venezuela..
google
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about arepas. Regards
Sandy
By the way - sharing you on facebook to everybody I know 🙂
Sandy
I am obsessed with your site! thanks thanks thanks! cant wait to start cooking Colombian food to my soon to be gringo husband 🙂 soy Colombiana and with zero to none experience in the kitchen, but your recipes are amazing and super easy to follow.