List of Chilean ingredients

This is a list of ingredients found in Chilean cuisine which are mostly those used in Mediterranean and Andean cuisine.

Grains and maize

 * Wheat
 * Mote
 * Maize
 * Quinoa, a grain-like crop grown primarily for its edible seeds.

Legume

 * Bean

Meat

 * Beef
 * Charqui, a form of jerky common in South America made from dried and salted meat, usually horse, llama or beef.
 * Pork
 * Goose

Seafood

 * Cod
 * Crab
 * Juan Fernández lobster
 * Chilean mussel
 * Rainbow trout
 * Chilean sea urchin
 * Salmon
 * Centolla, a species of king crab, found off the Pacific coasts of South America
 * Corvina - Chilean Sea Bass
 * Congrio, the family of conger and garden eels
 * Merluza, a family of cod-like fishes, including most hakes.
 * Loco, a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk native to the coasts of Chile and Peru.
 * Picoroco, a species of giant barnacles native to the coasts of Chile and southern Peru.
 * Piure, a class in the Urochordata subphylum of sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders.
 * Cochayuyo, algae

Dairy products

 * Milk (although rarely in fresh form in cities; long-life milk is standard).

Vegetables

 * Potato
 * Chuño, a freeze-dried potato product
 * Chilean rhubarb
 * Sweet potato
 * Tomato
 * Artichoke
 * Basil
 * Cabbage
 * Carrot
 * Coriander
 * Garlic
 * Key lime
 * Onion

Fruits

 * Avocado
 * Magellan Barberry
 * Grape
 * Olive
 * Olive oil
 * Quince
 * Cherimoya, a fruit
 * Lúcuma, a subtropical fruit of Andean origin.
 * Mountain papaya, a fruit usually cooked as a vegetable, but is also eaten raw; like Papaya, it is rich in the digestive enzyme papain.
 * Murta, a shrub native to southern Chile. The fruit is a small red, white or purple berry 1 cm diameter with a strong strawberry flavour.
 * Piñón, The seeds are edible, similar to large pine nuts, and are extensively harvested in Chile.

Mushroom

 * Changle, fungi
 * Digüeñe, an orange-white coloured edible ascomycete fungus native to south-central Chile.

Herbs and spices

 * Boldo, herb
 * Matico
 * Yerba mate, grown in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.
 * Sugar cane
 * Merkén, It is a smoked and dried red hot chili pepper cacho cabra, which is ground into a powder.