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Fiestas Patrias (Chile)

Chile fills its fairgrounds with baked beef empanadas, grilled meat and sweet young wine.

People dancing cueca in the Palace of La Moneda
Photo: Osmar Valdebenito, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Fiestas Patrias (Chile)

On 18 and 19 September Chileans celebrate the start of their independence. Towns set up fondas, fairgrounds with dance floors for the cueca and long rows of grills. The food is fixed by custom. Empanadas de pino are baked with a filling of beef, onion, egg and olive. Meat is grilled as asado, sausages go into bread as choripán, and skewers are sold as anticuchos. People drink chicha, a sweet lightly fermented grape or apple drink, and the terremoto, white wine with pineapple ice cream.

The dishes

EmpanadaBaked with beef, onion, egg and olive.AsadoGrilled meat, the main business of the fairgrounds.ChoripánGrilled sausage in bread.AnticuchoSkewers of meat from the grill.ChichaSweet young grape or apple drink.TerremotoWhite wine with pineapple ice cream.Mote con huesilloCold drink of wheat and dried peaches.
About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Fiestas Patrias (Chile)" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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