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Arepa de Huevo

Name: Arepa de Huevo
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Colombia
Ingredients: 250g Masarepa (precooked cornmeal); 300ml Water; 4 Egg; 1 tsp Salt; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

A corn arepa fried with an egg cracked inside — a breakfast favorite on Colombia's Caribbean coast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Arepa de huevo is especially popular on Colombia's northern Caribbean coast. A disc of corn dough is fried until it puffs, slit open, filled with a raw egg, and fried again — crisp outside with a soft egg inside. Locals love it for breakfast or as a snack at the beach.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a beachside stall in Cartagena, visitors eat hot arepas de huevo while looking out over the morning sea.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Masarepa (precooked cornmeal) 250g
Water 300ml
Egg 4
Salt 1 tsp
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix cornmeal with salt and water and knead into a dough.
Shape the dough into flat rounds.
Fry in 160°C oil until the arepas puff up.
Remove, cut a slit along one edge, and pour a raw egg inside.
Press the opening closed and fry again until the egg is cooked.

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