Colombian Ajiaco Recipe

Name: Colombian Ajiaco Recipe
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Colombian
Ingredients: 3 pc chicken breast; 12 cups water; 3 pc fresh corn; ½ tsp salt; ¼ tsp black pepper; 2 pc chicken stock cubes; 3 pc scallions; 2 pc garlic cloves; 3 tbsp fresh coriander; 2 cups Andean potato; 3 pc white potatoes; 3 pc red potatoes; ⅓ cup guascas (herb); 1 cup heavy cream; 1 cup capers

A hearty Bogotá-style chicken and three-potato soup flavoured with corn and guascas, finished with cream and capers.

95 min 432 kcal/serving serves 6

432kcal26gprotein49gcarbs17gfat

Erica DinhoView the original on mycolombianrecipes.com More from Erica Dinho on Mello

🍗chicken breast

💧water

🌽fresh corn

🧂salt

🧂black pepper

🍗chicken stock cubes

🧅scallions

🧄garlic cloves

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About Erica Dinho

Colombian home cook and founder of My Colombian Recipes

Erica Dinho is the creator of My Colombian Recipes, a long-running blog dedicated to traditional Colombian home cooking. She has spent years documenting regional dishes and family recipes, helping introduce Colombian cuisine to a wider audience online.

Her recipes stay close to traditional Colombian home cooking, built around staples like plantains, corn, pork, and beans, with dishes ranging from hearty soups such as ajiaco and sancocho to fried snacks like patacones and buñuelos. She favors classic techniques and familiar regional flavor combinations over reinvention, aiming to make dishes like tamales antioqueños and bandeja paisa approachable for home kitchens.

Ten Colombian recipes on Mello, imported from mycolombianrecipes.com.