Pabellón Criollo

Pabellón criollo

Specialised

Shredded beef (carne mechada), black beans (CARAOTAS), white rice and fried ripe plantain (TAJADAS), on one plate. With a fried egg it is PABELLÓN A CABALLO; with an arepa it is a common breakfast. ⚠ THE USUAL READING — that the four components represent the peoples of Venezuela — IS A LATER INTERPRETATION, widely repeated and not documented as its origin. What is documented is that it assembles the cheap staples of the nineteenth-century household — beef, beans, rice, plantain — into a plate that became national.