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A perfect party food, empanadas are crescent-shaped savory pastries that you can easily hold in your hand. Usually filled with meat, fish, cheese, and/or vegetables, then baked or fried, empanadas are delicious and fun to both make and eat, ideally with plenty of friends and family.
Carbonada
If you like hearty, comforting, filling stews, you’ll love carbonado, an Argentinian stew made with beef, which Argentina is a huge producer of. Usually made with dried fruit, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, onions, and squash, carbonado is perfect for the cooler months, especially served with some cornbread.
Alfajores de Maicena
Craving something sweet? Alfajores, soft cookies sandwiches filled with dulce de leche, just melt in your mouth in the most satisfying possible way. If you like to bake, you’ve got to try these.
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]]>This hot drink, originally from South America, is an infusion made from the dried leaves of a plant called yerba mate. The beverage produced by these leaves is beloved in countries such as Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil, and has started to grow in popularity worldwide.
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It can be tough to learn to make a mate the correct way, but it really isn’t that hard! So let’s go for it.
Ingredients
Mate gourd
A “bombilla” (a silver straw that filters)
Yerba mate
Cold water
Hot water (around 180 F), in a thermos
Instructions
Start off by filling your mate cup about 2/3rds of the way full with the yerba mate leaves.
Once you’ve done this, place your palm on top of the mate gourd and begin to gently shake the leaves back and forth a few times. This will help arrange the mate leaves into a “little mountain” that will form an incline inside of the cup once upright.
When you’ve set the cup down and the “little mountain” has formed, filling one half of the cup on an incline, add the silver “bombilla” to the empty side of the gourd, leaning against the “little mountain.”
Fill about half of the empty space with cold water. This will prevent hot water from burning the leaves and producing a bitter mate.
Next, fill the rest of the mate gourd with hot water.
Allow to steep for a couple minutes, and you’re ready to start sipping!
You can keep adding hot water until the beverage loses its flavor.
Enjoy!
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