DISH RESEARCH · Bread
Arepa Andina
Venezuelan Andean wheat arepas enriched with butter and egg.
About Arepa Andina
Arepa andina is a wheat-flour arepa from the Venezuelan Andes. This version follows Juana Garrido’s family recipe, preserved in Julieta Salas de Carbonell’s Mérida memoir.
Butter and egg enrich the dough, with a little sugar balancing the salt. The recipe uses water rather than milk in the dough.
The round, fork-pricked breads develop a light crust around a soft interior. They are eaten hot, with yellow cheese and cuajada named as accompaniments.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Egg, Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Arepa Andina
Juana Garrido’s Mérida family wheat arepas.
- Non-self-raising wheat flourBase
- Baking powderBinder
- SaltSeasoning
- SugarSweetener
- EggsBinder
- WaterLiquid
- ButterCooking medium
- Oil for the griddleCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- Yellow cheeseAccompaniment · Accompaniments · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- CuajadaAccompaniment · Accompaniments · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Non-self-raising wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed
- Baking powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Polvo Royal named; exact product carrier/formula unresolved
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Eggs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed
- Oil for the griddle: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method-only cooking oil; botanical identity unspecified
- Yellow cheese (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Cheese variety unspecified; named serving accompaniment, not dough ingredient
- Cuajada (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Dairy curd accompaniment; exact local product mapping unresolved
Recipe-specific unresolved details
- Griddle oil and baking-powder product details are unspecified.
- Yellow cheese and cuajada exact product mappings are unresolved; they are accompaniments, while butter confirms milk in the dough itself.
- This recipe uses water and butter; milk is not added merely from the broader catalogue description.
Origins & food traditions
A Mérida family recipe credited to Juana Garrido in a memoir of Venezuelan Andean cooking; the wheat arepa identity is also named arepa andina by P.A.N.
Cuisines & regions
- Venezuelan Andean Cuisine
- Venezuelan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Andean Venezuelan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.