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.
Nutrition
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!
Erica
Thank you everyone for your comments!
Faith
I hope you have a wonderful time with your sister! What a pretty dish! I bet the avocado pairs so nicely with the arepa and shredded meat!
Gera @ SweetsFoodsBlog
I want it!!! I love arepas and the photos is so enticing 🙂
All the best,
Gera
Lyndsey
Another fantastic recipe! I like having my sisters around too. I don't get to see them too often either, they live north and I'm in the south. When we are together, good food and drinks always seem to be on the agenda! It makes for good memories too!
ruth
The meat just looks perfect!! Wow, so jealous of your sister lol But she does have excellent taste for food!!
Stephanie
I have made arepas twice now. I am just not confident that I cooking them long enough. Should they be soft and sort of creamy inside? I would love to prepare them in this way!!
Fr@nciJoe
Arepa are sold on almost every corner here in Colombia. I love arepas with chicken and steak. I think I'm going to get one tonight for supper.,....
Sandra G
I know what you mean about sisters, I have four, but only one lives close to me everybody else is in Florida and I'm in Mass, but I digress how delicious this looks is like a Fiesta on a plate Yum!
Baking is my Zen
I've got to try this!!!!! This looks so good!
Ivy
Lucky sister!! Drooling, just drooling 🙂
Erica
Thank you guys 🙂
5 Star Foodie
THe arepas look so scrumptious with shredded meat and plantains! Yum!
norma
This is one one of my favorite foods...Arepas...give them to me plain or siegas as they call them..filled or topped of like this one. Great dish. My moth is watering......
COZY KITCHEN BY THE SEA
Oh how this looks soooooooooooo AMAZING !!
Tangled Noodle
Oh, the topping sounds marvelous, especially with avocado and plantain! I miss my family a lot, too, so thank goodness we can keep in touch via e-mail and phone calls. We're hoping to visit them in CA this summer - I wonder if my sisters will make me some of my favorite meals, as you've done for yours? 😎
Joan Nova
Your sister is going to return to Colombia with a few extra libras! 🙂
Looks delicious!