Weekly Meal Plan – Latin America – Spicy & Vibrant

📅 Full weekly plan

Day	Lunch	Dinner
Monday	Pozole Pozole is an Aztec ritual soup — the Nahuatl word literally means foamy corn.	Milanesa Milanesa arrived in Argentina with the Italian immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, carried directly from the cotoletta alla Milanese of Lombardy.
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…	La Bandera La Bandera — The Flag — is the Dominican Republic's national plate, eaten at midday in homes and small restaurants across the country.
Wednesday	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…	Tamale The tamale is one of Mesoamerica's oldest prepared foods, dating back several thousand years before European contact.
Thursday	Chili con carne Chili con carne is more Texan than Mexican — the dish was popularized in San Antonio in the nineteenth century by street vendors known as the chili…	Lomo Saltado Lomo saltado is one of Peru's most emblematic stir-fries, born from the chifa tradition — the fusion of Cantonese cooking with Peruvian ingredients…
Friday	Moqueca Moqueca is a slow-simmered Brazilian fish stew that exists in two distinct regional forms.	Arroz Chaufa Arroz chaufa is the Peruvian name for a style of Chinese fried rice that became its own distinct dish through the kitchens of the Tusán community —…
Saturday	Ropa Vieja Ropa vieja — 'old clothes' in Spanish — is Cuba's national dish: beef braised until it falls into shreds, then cooked in a sofrito of tomatoes,…	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.
Sunday	Chiles en nogada Chiles en nogada is considered Mexico's most patriotic dish — its colours mirror the Mexican flag: green from the parsley, white from the walnut…	Tacos Tacos are the soul of Mexican street food, a tradition far older than the 20th century, traceable to colonial-era silver mines where workers wrapped…