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Perico

Name: Perico
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Venezuela
Ingredients: 4 Egg; 1 Tomato; 1/2 Onion; 1/4 Red bell pepper; 2 Green Onion; 15g Butter; 1/3 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper

Side Dish

⏱ 15 min

👥 Serves 2

Difficulty ⭐

Tomato, onion, and green onion sautéed and folded into fluffy eggs — Venezuela's morning staple with arepas.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Perico is scrambled eggs with sautéed tomato, onion, bell pepper, and green onion, a Venezuelan breakfast staple. It's eaten as is, stuffed into fresh arepas, or plated with black beans and cheese. The name is said to come from colors like a parakeet's (perico) feathers.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a weekday morning, a mother quickly makes perico and stuffs it into fresh arepas, preparing the family's breakfast and school lunches at once.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 2)

Egg 4
Tomato 1
Onion 1/2
Red bell pepper 1/4
Green Onion 2
Butter 15g
Salt 1/3 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dice the tomato, onion, and bell pepper small and slice the green onion.
Melt butter in a frying pan and sauté the onion and bell pepper until soft.
Add the tomato and green onion and cook until the tomato starts to break down.
Season the beaten eggs with salt and pepper and pour in.
Stir slowly in large strokes until softly set.
Serve, or stuff into arepas.

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