Argentine cuisine is perfect for meat lovers. Europe had a great impact on the cuisine of Argentina, especially Italy and Spain. Even though Argentine restaurants can be found around the world, the best beef can only be tasted in Argentina itself. The country is famous for quality red wine, which we highly recommend.
Fideos is a typical Italian dish, a famous kind of stuffed pasta. It is usually prepared with fresh pasta to which homemade tomato sauce is added. It is good that, if you want to eat this dish in a restaurant, you can pick the toppings. You can even mix different toppings to make one that is perfect for you. Mozzarella, prosciutto, ricotta cheese, spinach, as well as different spices and sauces are the most common choices for the topping. Interestingly, this dish is never stuffed with meat, but almost exclusivelly with cheese and vegetables.
Dulce de Leche or milk cake, is the perfect cake to try on your trip to Argentina. It is made of condensed milk which, when mixed with sugar, creates a dense caramel sauce, to which vanilla is added to amplify the taste further. This is often served as a cake or ice cream topping, or added as an extra layer on an empanada. As there is no default way of eating this delicious paste, you can use it on pastry, ice cream, or even eat it alone, with a spoon, and no way is less enjoyable than another.
Alfajores are an Argentine take on the French macarons. These small rolled cookies with different toppings are Arabic in origin. During their conquests through Spain, the Maori people brought with them recipes for this delicacy, and these recipes were later brought by the Spanish to South America. The toppings on these cookies range from sweet jams to dulce de leche, and in Argentina, people eat them for breakfast, dessert, as well as a tasty snack with coffee. Argentina is the world’s top consumer of Alfajores.
