Bandeja Paisa

Name: Bandeja Paisa
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Colombian
Ingredients: 400 g Dried red kidney beans, soaked overnight; 1 Green plantain, grated; 500 g Pork belly for the chicharrón, cut into thick strips; 4 Colombian chorizo; 400 g Minced beef; 300 g White rice; 2 Ripe plantain, sliced on the diagonal; 4 Eggs; 2 Avocado; 4 Arepas; 2 Onion, chopped; 3 Tomato, chopped; 4 Spring onion, sliced; 2 tsp Ground cumin; 4 tbsp Oil; 3 tsp Salt; 2 L Water for the beans

Red beans, rice, minced beef, chicharrón, chorizo, a fried egg, fried plantain, avocado and an arepa — all on one enormous platter, and all of it is the dish.

Fonte

Ricetta di Paisa kitchens of Antioquia · 🏺 Tradizionale · Mountain farm cooking built for a long day's work — beans, rice, pork and plantain on one plate, and nobody apologising for the size of it.

Colombian · Antioquia platter — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms the Antioquia/paisa origin, the platter format and the full component list — beans, rice, minced meat, chicharrón, chorizo, fried egg, plantain, avocado and arepa. Quantities and method are this book's own.

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Passaggi

Drain the soaked beans, put them in a big pot with the water and grated green plantain and simmer 1 hour 30 minutes until soft.
Make a hogao: fry half the onion, half the tomato, the spring onion and 1 tsp cumin in 2 tbsp oil for 15 minutes until it collapses. Stir half of it into the beans.
💡 Hogao is the base of half of Colombian cooking — onion, tomato and spring onion cooked down slowly. Make double and keep it in the fridge.
Score the pork belly rind, salt it well, and fry it slowly in a dry pan for 30 minutes until the fat has rendered and the rind blisters hard.
Cook the rice. Fry the chorizo. Fry the minced beef with the rest of the hogao, onion, tomato and cumin.
Fry the ripe plantain slices in oil until dark gold and sweet at the edges, then fry the eggs.
Load a large platter per person: beans, rice, beef, chicharrón, chorizo, plantain, egg, avocado and an arepa. Nothing is optional.

💡 Consigli

This is a working farmhand's plate from Antioquia and it is genuinely enormous. Two people can share one and nobody will be hungry.
Cook the beans the day before. They are better and it turns a three-hour job into a one-hour one.
The chicharrón has to be dry-fried slowly from cold. Hot oil gives you a hard strip with soft fat inside.