Hallaca Research Paper

How to make Venezuelans Hallacas for Christmas
Venezuelans Christmas, the best holiday to celebrate with delicious hallaca. For all Venezuelans the hallaca is the most important plate serve in Christmas, families has the costume of organize parties just for make the hallacas, each family has a different way to make the hallacas. However, the main ingredients are always the same. December, the most significant holiday in the year need to be the partner of a big and delicious dinner. In my case, the best way to feel that Christmas is here is to be eating my hallaca on December 24 with all my family at my home.
The hallaca is the main Venezuelan Christmas dinner dish. The slaves created it during the colony times. They put the left-overs of
The dough will be ready when it has an intense orange color and it is shinny Once dough has rested, proceed to make 6-7 oz balls. In a small bowls, the ‘adornos’ (decorations)- onions, red bell peppers, capers, olives, salt pork, almonds and raisins. Place one of each over the spoonful of the stew on the dough, as a representation of the main ingredients used to make the three meat stew. Little cones of ‘papelon’ that is unprocessed sugar cane, a key ingredient in Venezuelan cuisine, both for sweet and savory dishes.
Take a ball of dough, and place over a previously oiled plantain leaf and flatten with a wood block or plate. Do not make it too thin that it will break, but do not make it too thick. Place a generous spoonful of three meat stews over the flattened dough. Decorations will be arranged over the stew. The ‘hallaca’ shall be folded over to close like a pocket. It should be wrapped with three leaves: the base, the second one that protects the ‘hallaca’ from getting water in while it boils and the ‘faja’ (belt), which holds the leaves