05 September 2026
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World Kitchen Journal

The cuisine of Venezuela

Its dishes, its recipes and what its kitchens are saying today.

Arepas Made with Nixtamalised Rice and Filled with Bacalhau à Brás
Recipe

Arepas Made with Nixtamalised Rice and Filled with Bacalhau à Brás

Venezuela's corn cake made instead from rice treated with lime in the Mexican manner, so it holds and browns like corn, then split and stuffed with Portugal's scrambled salt cod. A sandwich that does not exist anywhere in the Atlantic, from a kitchen that thinks it should.

Typical dishes

The recipes that define the table of Venezuela