Cuisine
Paraguay
Paraguayan cooking is built on corn, cassava (mandioca) and cheese, with roots in Guaraní traditions blended with Spanish ones. Boiled cassava comes with many meals the way bread does elsewhere, and on hot days people drink tereré – cold yerba mate with iced water and herbs. Many dishes are traditionally baked in a clay oven called a tatakua.
- 3 dishes
- Breads and pastries: 2
- Drinks: 1
- vegetarian: 3
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bread · vegetarian
Sopa paraguaya
A “soup” that is actually a moist cornbread with cheese and onion – a fixture alongside a Paraguayan barbecue.
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bread · vegetarian
Chipa
Small cheesy rings of cassava starch with a hint of aniseed, crisp outside and dense within.
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drink · vegan
Mate
A bitter infusion of yerba mate leaves sipped through a metal straw from a gourd passed from hand to hand.
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