Category:Colombian Vegetarian

Browse All Colombian Recipes: Colombian Appetizers | Colombian Beverages | Colombian Soups | Colombian Salads | Colombian Vegetarian | Colombian Meat Dishes | Colombian Snacks | Colombian Desserts Vegetarian Colombian meals include: rice, corn, beans, tomatoes, yucca, anise and plantain. The beans are used a lot in the vegetarian menu, as these contain a wide number of nutrients, especially proteins that substitute meat. The fried plantains are an easy to make snack or main dish. The peeled and cut plantains are fried in vegetable oil until they get a golden color, then salted and ready to eat. Rice with coconut is a traditional and loved vegetarian meal, made with fresh coconut and sweetened with sugar. The Colombian beans are prepared in canapola oil, with chopped onions, ground cinnamon, seeded and minced Serrano chili (which colors the hands), thyme leaves, vegetable stock, flaked coconut, dried and canned kidney beans and milk or even better, soy milk. The grilled Chile relents is a very spicy vegetarian meal, due to the chipotles and it is also meatless and fatless. Rice is also another vegetarian option, and it can be salty or sweet, leavened or unleavened, plain white or complexly cooked.