List of Chilean ingredients
# 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.
