Venezuelan Arepa
Breads & grains
Precooked maize flour and water form small pan-cooked arepas.
Prep: 10 min; Cook: 5 min (source) · 3-4
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Gather
- 2 ½ cups of water
- 2 cups of precooked corn flour
- Salt, a little, to taste (specified in source method)
- Cooking oil for the pan (specified in source method)
- Butter, for serving (specified in source method)
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Make
- 01
Combine the water, the precooked corn flour, and a little bit of salt in a large mixing bowl.
- 02
Mix the ingredients by hand until no clumps remain in the resulting dough and it has a smooth but solid consistency.
- 03
Preheat a pan with oil over low heat.
- 04
Take a piece of dough and form a ball the size of the palm of your hand.
- 05
Carefully slap the ball side by side to make a disk neither too thick nor too thin.
- 06
Repeat the process with the remainder of the dough.
- 07
Put the arepas in the preheated pan and wait for it approximately 2 minutes and a half to flip it over.
- 08
When both sides are cooked, take them out of the pan.
- 09
Cut through the middle of the arepas with a butter knife, and brush them with butter.
Leliel · Public Domain Recipes · Venezuelan Arepa. Public-domain dedication / Unlicense. Editorially checked for ingredient/method consistency. Not independently kitchen-tested by Herbologium. Source-reported and editorially estimated times are labeled separately.
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Leliel · Public Domain Recipes. (2025). Venezuelan Arepa.
https://publicdomainrecipes.com/venezuelan-arepa/
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Precooked maize flour and water form small pan-cooked arepas.
Editorially checked for ingredient/method consistency. Not independently kitchen-tested by Herbologium. Source-reported and editorially estimated times are labeled separately.
Filling suggestions are omitted; this card prepares the plain arepas.
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