This is a list of 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 1cm 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.

See also