TRAY PAISA

A fundamental characteristic of this dish is its enormous abundance, both in quantity and in variety of foods, so that, the complete paisa tray can only be served in large dishes called trays.

In its current from and composition, it is a dishes of recent development: no references appear in pre- 1950 cookbooks or in other documents prior to that date. It is probaly a commercial evolution, developed in the Antioquian restaurants of Medellin, Bogota and other places in Colombia of the traditional Antioqueño "dry" made up of rice, beans, meat, some fried arepa. It may also have envolved from another dish commonly used in the region, including today, widely known as "Typical Mountaineer" or simply "Typical".

Ingredients:

The dish is served in a wide, multi-piece and oval dish (tray type). In its traditional or traditional classic presentacion, it is tradityonallycomposed of fouteen invariable ingredients, twelve of them arranged in the mencioned trays or platews, and tow more as accompamiement, are these.

Invariable ingredients:

Beans with claw

Whithe rice

Ground meat

Pork rind

Fried egg

Pataco

Antoquian chorizo with lemon                                                             

Arepa Antioqueña

Hogao

Blood sausage

Sliced red tomato

Avocado

Accompaniment:

Clear or porridge with milk

Panela ground or "sweet male"

Refajo

Vriations are found in all the regions of the Departament of Antioquian in Old Caldas, in Tolima and Valle del Cauca which incorporate or replace some of their components, without all these variations being able to be called, strictly speaking. Tray Paisa.

Some typical restaurants in Antioquia offer a variation (or extension) of the original set of components of the paisa tray, with the name of Tray of the seven meats, which adds, to the fourteen initial components, grilled beef and pork, and liver of grilled pork that, together with the morcilla antioqueña, the chorizo ​​from Antioquia, the pork rind and the powdered meat, constitute the aforementioned seven meats.