🇻🇪 Venezuela cuisine · #3

Hallacas

Hallacas
Time300 min
Serves20
Ingredients15

Corn dough filled with a meat stew, olives, raisins and almonds, wrapped in banana leaves and boiled — the jewel of the Christmas table.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Make a stew of finely diced meats and vegetables until thick; cool.
  2. Knead the flour with stock and achiote oil.
  3. Spread thin on an oiled banana leaf and add stew, olives, raisins and almonds.
  4. Fold into a rectangle and tie.
  5. Boil for an hour.