Salteña

A salteña is a Bolivian type of baked empanada. Salteñas are savory pastries filled with beef, pork or chicken mixed in a sweet, slightly spicy sauce containing olives, raisins, potatoes and sometimes egg. Vegetarian salteñas are sometimes available at certain restaurants. Salteñas are filled with a juicy gelatin-based stew that is solid when prepared, but melts when they are baked. Typically salteñas can be found in any town or city throughout the country, but each area has its variations; Cochabamba and Sucre claim to have the best version of this snack, and many will go out of their way to try the variation from Potosí. In La Paz and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, it is a tradition to enjoy salteñas as a mid-morning snack especially on sundays, although vendors often start selling salteñas very early in the morning. The pastries are sold anywhere from 7 am to noon; most vendors sell out by mid-morning.[citation needed] Historian Antonio Paredes Candia states that during the early 19th century, Juana Manuela Gorriti was the first person to create the current version of this dish. This lady later married President Manuel Isidoro Belzu. Gorriti was born in Salta, Argentina, and was exiled to Potosí, Bolivia, during the Juan Manuel de Rosas dictatorship. The Gorriti family endured extreme poverty, and they came up with the recipe in the early 19th century in order to make a living. A variation of these pastries was known at the time throughout most of Europe.

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