Pantry guide
Best Guascas for home cooking
What Guascas is for, which kitchens use it, and where to find a jar worth cooking with.
Why cooks start here
The dried herb a Colombian chicken-and-potato soup is unfinished without: green, grassy, and local.
Add the dried herb toward the end of ajiaco so it stays fragrant. A little cream and capers on the table are the rest of the ritual.
There is no honest substitute. Parsley plus a bay leaf is a different soup. Buy the small bags labeled guascas if you want Bogotá in the pot.
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