Talk:Ecuadorian Guatita/@comment-174.52.208.10-20110214175232

Guatita is one of those dishes that causes predictable reactions if you’ve had it before you will look at it and your mouth will water (assuming you liked it when you had it), if you haven’t ever had it before and don’t like the idea of eating cow’s stomach or tripe or if you had tripe cook in a different way and didn’t like it, then you might say yuck, and if you’ve had tripe before and liked it you might be tempted to try this dish. I’ve had tripe in other dishes and it’s okay, it’s one of those ingredients that I can only eat a small amount of because the flavor is very strong, but tripe prepared this way in a potato peanut sauce with rice and pickled onions is just amazing and I can eat a lot of it, the tripe is cooked and then cut into very small pieces so you aren’t overpowered by the strong distinct taste it has and the flavor blends in with the taste of the potato peanut sauce. Guatita is served with white rice, curtido or a pickled onions, tomato slices, avocado slices and hot sauce.

Guatita is a typical dish from Ecuador and yes, like most of our typical dishes, it is also known as a great hangover cure. In each city there are restaurants that are known for being the best places to eat guatita and if you go by one of these restaurants on a Saturday or Sunday morning you will find them completely packed. This is a wonderful dish.