🌶️ Weekly meal plan

Latin America – Spicy & Vibrant

Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Cuba on your plate. Black beans, corn, avocado, spiced meats and vibrant colours.

2 people 7 days ~€42–55 / week 177 ingredients

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Day	Lunch	Dinner
Monday	Pepian Pepian is a Guatemalan national sauce with pre-Columbian Maya roots — a rich blend of toasted sesame and pumpkin seeds, dried chilies, tomatoes, and…	Morocho Morocho has its origins in Ecuadorian Andean traditions, where the large-kernel corn, also called morocho, has been cultivated for centuries at high…
Tuesday	Pastel de Choclo Pastel de choclo is Chile's national corn pie — a clay pot in which boiled chicken with onion, olives, hard-boiled eggs, and raisins hides under a…	Hornado Hornado is the festive dish of central Ecuador's markets, especially in the towns of Latacunga and Machachi, where the vendors known as 'hornaderas'…
Wednesday	Mole Poblano Mole poblano is the great national dish of Mexico, claimed by Puebla nuns who, legend has it, improvised the sauce for an unexpected archbishop in 1681.	Encebollado Encebollado is Ecuador's most celebrated street food and most cherished hangover remedy — a thick fish stew of fresh albacore tuna, cassava, and red…
Thursday	Pozole Pozole is an Aztec ritual soup — the Nahuatl word literally means foamy corn.	Cuy Asado Cuy Asado is far more than food for the people of the Ecuadorian Andes — it is a culinary heritage dating back thousands of years, with guinea pigs…
Friday	Picadillo Picadillo is everyday Cuban food — a flavorful hash of ground beef cooked with tomatoes, onion, garlic, bell pepper, and the surprising sweet-salty…	Guatita Guatita is a staple dish of Ecuador's highland cuisine, where peanuts grown in the region's warm valleys became the defining ingredient of many traditional sauces and stews.
Saturday	Bandeja Paisa Bandeja paisa is Colombia's national dish and Latin America's most generous plate — a massive platter with 9-11 components: frijoles (red beans),…	Moqueca Moqueca is a slow-simmered Brazilian fish stew that exists in two distinct regional forms.
Sunday	Tlayudas Tlayudas are Oaxaca's pizza — a large (30 cm) semi-dried, crunchy corn tortilla smeared with frijoles negros (refried black beans), covered with…	Fritada Fritada is one of the oldest dishes in Ecuador's everyday cuisine, born from the practical technique of preserving and cooking pork without…

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177 ingredients

All ingredients for the week, sorted alphabetically. Estimated ~€42–55 for 2 people.

💰 ~€42–55 / week 177 ingredients

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