The Best Dishes of Bolivia: The Salteñas

One of the principal characteristics here in Bolivia, especially La Paz, is that you can eat anywhere you want. There are a lot of food kiosks around the Perez street as well as on the 21st street in Calacoto. The best dishes that you can eat here in Bolivia, for me, are the Salteñas and the Anticuchos. These two plates are the most ordered and eaten here. There are very traditional here, specially the hours for eating them.

My favourite dish here in La Paz and I think that for almost very one are the salteñas. The Salteñas have a special flavour that you will not find anywhere else. Inside them there is a warm broth made from fine herbs and that it also is a little bit spicy. The majority of the salteñas is composed of potato and meat. There is a big variety of them, some are made with chicken, some are vegetarian which have no meat, and some of them are very hot. These changes create wonderful flavours that you to try! There are a lot of places here in Bolivia where you can buy them, especially here in La Paz, there is a lot of competition and in this case you could say that "Each one better than the other". 

The most common characteristics of the salteñas is that the dough always has a brownish golden color and a very brown crest, in some "restaurants" the crest works to differentiate them, if they are meat, chicken, vegetarian, or hot. For such a delicious food the price is also unvelibable since it is also Bs. 4,5 which is $0.6. The usual hour in which the salteñas are served at noon, it is like a type of food for a fast "break". My favourite place to eat them would be the restaurant La Paceña or Los Castores, both in the 21st street of Calacoto.