Cucharamama

Hot Soups

• White Bean And Tomato Cream Perfumed

  with chilean merkén and fresh basil

• Ecuadorian-style Creamy Corn

  Plantain, and Shrimp Soup with Plantain Empanadas

Salads

• Green Mixed Salad

• Shrimp And Palmito Salad

• Grilled Pineapple And Pumpkin Salad

  with pumpkin seeds and cacao nib vinaigrette

Main Dishes

• Assorted Seafoodand Fish

  in a spicy coconut milk sauce laced with culantro from ecuador’s esmeraldas province, white rice

• Shimp In A Spicy Peruvian Hot Pepper Sauce

  with fresh cheese, white rice, peruvian canary beans

• Peruvian-style Roast Leg Of Pork

  in ají amarillo adobo, white rice and stewed canary beans

• Spicy Braised Beef

  in the style of tarija (bolivia) with bolivian relish, white rice and venezuelan black beans

• Braised Short Ribs

  in a red wine sauce and brown loaf sugar and cacao, stir fried quinoa and swiss chard

• Argentinean-style Skirt Steak

  with chimichurri, colombian-style potatoes with tomato and cheese sauce

• Rib-eye Steak

  with chilean garlicky tomato salsa, yuca gratin and stir-fried broccol raab

• Pork Belly

  mussels, potatoes, and black olives in a savory ají panca and dark beer sauce

• Grilled Duck Breast

  over aromatic tamarillo sauce, creamy quinoa, sweet potato puree

• A Colombian Highland Classic From Antioquia

  skirt steak, pork cracklings, colombian sausage, arepa, rice and red beans, ripe plantains, and colombian hot sauce

From The Wood-burning Oven

• Spinach And Walnut Cannelloni

  in the style of the river plate region, creamy manchego and parmigiano-reggiano white sauce and tomato sauce

• Chilean Beef And Chicken Potpie

  with a fresh corn crust. spicy pebre sauce

• Boneless Chicken Breast

  in peruvian adobo roasted in our wood-burning oven, pumpkin and mango sauce, ripe plantain and eggplant puree from barranquilla

• Roasted Salmon

  with a catalan sauce of fire-roasted peppers and hazelnuts and golden potatoes

• Young Organic Free-range Chicken

  (by the half) roasted in our wood-burning oven, garlic bitter orange mojo, spicy red potato puree

Rice Dishes

• Colombian Rice

  with queso blanco

• Brazilian-style White Rice

Piqueo

• From Cuenca, Ecuador, Braised Meaty Pork Ribs

  with hominy

• Crunchy Green Plantain “sparks”

  with cilantro sauce

• Ecuadorian Crunchies

  green plantain chips (chifles), toasted andean corn, spicy ají (salsa)

• Octopus

  in a peruvian black olive and panca pepper sauce

• Chicken Croquettes

  panca pepper sauce

• Rice And Cheese Croquettes

  mirasol pepper sauce

• Peruvian-style Crunchy Quinoa-crusted Chicken Fingers

  chino-latino sauce

• Mussels

  in a spicy sauce of panca peppers, garlic, cilantro, and peruvian dark beer

• Crunchy Peruvian-style Calamari

  rocoto and tamarillo sauce

• Crisp Morsels Of Marinated Fish

  with peruvian red onion relish and andean yellow pepper

• Brazilian Salt Cod

  and potato fritters, aioli sauce

• Soups

  with a savory side

• Fragrant White Bean And Tomato Cream Soup

  with cabrales cheese and onion empanaditas fresh from our wood-burning oven

• Ecuadorian-style Creamy Corn, Plantain, And Shrimp Soup

  with plantain empanadas

Wood Burning Oven

• From Ecuador’s Manabí Province

  roasted ripe plantain with fresh cheese, curd, and cracked peanut seasoning mix from bahía de caráquez

• Fresh Corn Cakes

  served with salmon roe and venezuelan crème fraîche (nata)

• Yuca And Cheese Griddle Cakes

  with a spicy sauce from the ecuadorian amazon

• Argentinean Sausage

  with roasted peppers and onions, argentinean red chimichurri

• Shrimp

  in panca pepper sauce

• Piquillo Peppers

  from navarre filled with caribbean pumpkin and manchego cheese

Empanadas De Horno

• Beef Empanadas, Chimichurri Sauce

• Cocktail Empanadas

  filled with onion confit and spanish cabrales blue cheese

• Empanadas

  filled with savory fresh corn polenta

• Spinach

  with bacon-onion sofrito, manchego and parmigiano

• Pizzas

  a south american-italian heritage with a latin twist

• Pizza Serrana

  serrano ham, manchego, aged parmigiano reggiano, red onion, andean ají amarillo

• Pizza De Chorizo

  spanish sausage and sweet and sour

• Pizza De Zapallo

  kabocha squash and red onion confit with manchego cheese

• Our Crusty Peruvian Alfonso Olive Country Bread

  with serrano ham and manchego cheese ceviche and friends

• Ecuadorian Coastal Ceviche

  from the town of jipijapa, with tomato and citrus broth, crushed peanuts, and plantain chips (chifles)

• Roast Pork

  yuca and red onions in achiote-infused tropical ceviche salsa

• Peruvian-style Skewered Marinated Shrimp

  arequipa’s andean corn and queso blanco relish

Tamales, Humitas, Bollos

• Ecuadorian

  fresh corn tamal from los ríos

• Chileanfresh

  corn tamal, venezuelan ají de leche (milk and cilantro sauce)

• From Colombia’s Vallecauca Region

  cracked corn tamal filled with a potato and peanut hash, bogota’s creamy cheese and tomato sauce

• Fresh Corn Tamal

  with a choice of two toppings: duck braised peruvian-style with chicha de jora and mirasol pepper, marinated and roasted slab bacon

• Venezuelanchicken

  filled tamal with ají de leche

• Venezuelan Pork

  crackling tamal with crème fraîche

Menestras Y Potajes

bean soups to eat as soup or to spoon over rice

• Peruvian Canary Bean Stew

• Black Beans Venezuelan Style

  similar to cuban black bean soup but with the touch of sweetness venezuelans love

Side Dishes

• Sweet Potato Puree

• Yuca Gratin

• Creamy Quinoa

  with potato and cheese

• Stir-fried Quinoa

  and swiss chard

• Golden Fried Green Plantains

• Ripe Plantains

  with crème fraîche

• Ripe Plantain Eggplant

  puree from barranquilla

• Colombian-style Potatoes

  with tomato and cheese sauce

Para La Familia

we roast whole suckling pigs to order with a five-day notice

• Roast Suckling Pig

  special order, market price by the pound

• Whole Leg Of Pork

  served family style with choice of sides (special order for four or more)