List of Chilean ingredients Facts for Kids

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

Grains and maize

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

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

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.

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

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