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Traditional Venezuelan Arepas Recipe.
Traditional Venezuelan Arepas Recipe. Since I posted my arepas enriched with eggs and cheese, I got tons of suggestions to make carrot and sesame seeds arepas, herbs and crushed red pepper arepas, arepas with crunchy bacon bites and so on. Honestly, I didn’t know our arepas were that versatile and I promise I’ll start experimenting more with Harina PAN.
Traditional Venezuelan Arepas Recipe. Since I posted my arepas enriched with eggs and cheese, I got tons of suggestions to make carrot and sesame seeds arepas, herbs and crushed red pepper arepas, arepas with crunchy bacon bites and so on. Honestly, I didn’t know our arepas were that versatile and I promise I’ll start experimenting more with Harina PAN.
On the other hand, one reader from Chile asked me for the recipe to make plain grilled arepas. I thought that was so cute, because the recipe is printed on the Harina PAN package and if you follow those directions you will get the perfect dough. That’s exactly what I do. My only “secret” is I don’t add any salt.
Another story is to give the arepas their perfect round flat shape and this is why, among other reasons, arepa makers are so popular these days: you just make a little ball of dough and the arepa maker will do the rest.
For those of you unfamiliar with the art of making arepas, here is the not so secret formula to make the best plain ones! By the way, this is the same recipe used yesterday by Empresas Polar in my home country to celebrate the 50 anniversary of Harina PAN and enter the Guinness record book with an arepa weighing 493.2 kilos!
For those of you unfamiliar with the art of making arepas, here is the not so secret formula to make the best plain ones! By the way, this is the same recipe used yesterday by Empresas Polar in my home country to celebrate the 50 anniversary of Harina PAN and enter the Guinness record book with an arepa weighing 493.2 kilos!
These arepas are gluten free and can be filled with almost anything (but peanut butter and jelly, I would say), including cheese, ham and cheese, tuna salad, cheese and bacon, chicken salad… you name it…
Arepas
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
12 mins
Total Time
17 mins
These are the classic, traditional Venezuelan arepas to be eaten with your favorite filling.
Course:
Arepas
Cuisine:
Venezuelan
Servings: 10 arepas
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups of luke warm water
- 2 cups of Harina PAN pre cooked arepa flour
Instructions
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Pour the water in a bowl.
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Add the flour and mix with your hands until well incorporated.
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Let stand for 2 minutes.
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Form dough balls according to the size of your arepa maker.
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Cook following the instructions of the arepa maker. In the case of my Miallegro arepa maker, it takes 12 minute to have the arepas done.
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I love these soooo much- i was in Caracas ten years ago had arepas, and have been on a search ever since!! Turned out perfect. I added a little oil before cooking as the cook. Love!!!
Yesss! thank ypu Felicia!
I have always wanted to make arepas, do you know where I can find the masa pan and can I use something different to the arepa maker?
Buy Harina P.A.N. at the Latino grocery store… no need for an arepa maker. You can use your best comal. I’ll make a video to show you.
These are super duper easy to make and so good!
Yes! They are the best! Thanks for visiting Denise!