A Taste of Chile

Chef Jose Montan grew up eating this food — and now he's bringing the vibrantly bold flavours of Chilean home cooking to the Get Cooking kitchen. The evening opens with sopaipillas con pebre, deep-fried pumpkin pastries alongside Chile's classic fresh salsa, before moving to anticuchos: grilled skewers of chicken, beef, chorizo, onions, and red peppers basted with a rich herb vinaigrette. A bright Chilean salad of tomatoes, onion, cilantro, and lemon rounds out the table, and the meal closes with pastel de choclo, a baked casserole of savoury, richly spiced beef topped with a golden layer of puréed sweet corn.