Venezuelan Arepa Pelua Recipe
Arepa Pelua Venezuelan recipe of arepas with shredded meat and yellow cheese.
This Venezuelan recipe of Arepa Peluda is very easy and simple to cook. It is a hearty dish that can be served for lunch or dinner.
In Venezuela, it is typical to use a variety of cheeses in the same arepa pelua because it has different textures and flavors.
It is a delicious dish that makes an excellent meal, especially when served with white rice and ripe plantain chips.
It gives you a Arepa con Queso?
Arepa Pelua with shredded meat and grated yellow cheese
Ingredients
- 4 tazas Water
- 1/2 cda Salt
- 4 tazas Precooked corn flour
- 200 gramos Carne mechada
- 200 gramos Yellow cheese
- 1 ración Butter
Instructions
Preparation of Carne Mechada
- For the preparation of the Carne Mechada we will follow the instructions of the recipe for arepas with carne mechada that we have already published.
Arepas Preparation
- For the preparation of the arepas we invite you to follow the instructions in the recipe of Traditional Venezuelan Arepas.
Preparation of Arepa Pelúa
- Having all the ingredients following the previous steps, we proceed to grate the yellow cheese.
- Now, open the arepas and spread butter to taste, add the shredded meat and then the grilled cheese. Then enjoy this delicious Venezuelan recipe.
Why is it called arepa pelúa?
The imagination and creativity of Venezuelans are of another dimension. And when it comes to naming things, they are "mandados a hacer". The arepa pelua or arepa peluda has this name, due to the resemblance that the strips of shredded meat and grated cheese have with the long hair of Venezuelan women.
Because of this resemblance they were "baptized" in this way, pelua or peluda because of the abundant amount of hair.
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