List of Chilean ingredients

This is a list of ingredients found in Chilean cuisine which are mostly those used in Mediterranean and Andean cuisine.

Grains and maize

• Wheat
  • Mote
• Maize
• Quinoa, a grain-like crop grown primarily for its edible seeds.

Legume

• Bean

Meat

• Beef
• Charqui, a form of jerky common in South America made from dried and salted meat, usually horse, llama or beef.
• Pork
• Goose

Seafood

• Cod
• Crab
• Juan Fernández lobster
• Chilean mussel
• Rainbow trout
• Chilean sea urchin
• Salmon
• Centolla, a species of king crab, found off the Pacific coasts of South America
• Corvina - Chilean Sea Bass
• Congrio, the family of conger and garden eels
• Merluza, a family of cod-like fishes, including most hakes.
• Loco, a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk native to the coasts of Chile and Peru.
• Picoroco, a species of giant barnacles native to the coasts of Chile and southern Peru.
• Piure, a class in the Urochordata subphylum of sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders.
• Cochayuyo, algae

Dairy products

• Milk (although rarely in fresh form in cities; long-life milk is standard).

Vegetables

• Potato
  • • Chuño, a freeze-dried potato product
• Chilean rhubarb
• Sweet potato
• Tomato
• Artichoke
• Basil
• Cabbage
• Carrot
• Coriander
• Garlic
• Key lime
• Onion

Fruits

• Avocado
• Magellan Barberry
• Grape
• Olive
  • Olive oil
• Quince
• Cherimoya, a fruit
• Lúcuma, a subtropical fruit of Andean origin.
• Mountain papaya, a fruit usually cooked as a vegetable, but is also eaten raw; like Papaya, it is rich in the digestive enzyme papain.
• Murta, a shrub native to southern Chile. The fruit is a small red, white or purple berry 1 cm diameter with a strong strawberry flavour.
• Piñón, The seeds are edible, similar to large pine nuts, and are extensively harvested in Chile.

Mushroom

• Changle, fungi
• Digüeñe, an orange-white coloured edible ascomycete fungus native to south-central Chile.

Herbs and spices

• Boldo, herb
• Yerba mate, grown in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.
• Sugar cane
• Chancaca
• Merkén, It is a smoked and dried red hot chili pepper cacho cabra, which is ground into a powder.

See also

• Chile portal
• Food portal