Have you ever heard the word "fritanga"? It's a dish that ever single visitor in Colombia must try!
“Fritanga” is a typical weekend lunch for Colombians. It is a varied dish served in a basket and enjoyed not with cutlery but your hands. When ordering fritanga you can mix and match, but it's ingredients are commonly potato criolla (or “papita bogotana”), grilled banana, blood sausage (blood sausage), long spicy pork sausage (longaniza), fried cassava (“yuquita frita”), stuffed potato, crackling (chicharrón), chorizo and chunchullo (fried pork small intestine). Nicknamed “the vitamin Ch” plate: chunchullo, chorizo, chicharrón are considered indispensable in it, and normally it is served with a beer, “una cold”.
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