Northern Argentine corn parcels: fresh corn pureed with onion, paprika and cheese, wrapped in corn husks and steamed. Sweet, savoury and faintly smoky.
Humitas predate Argentine independence; they are a Quechua-Aymara Andean dish that crossed the Bolivian and northwest Argentine plateau. The Buenos Aires version comes via Tucuman migrants who set up tucumana counters across the city in the 20th century, serving humitas en chala alongside empanadas tucumanas. El Hornero Tucumano on Cordoba and El Sanjuanino in Recoleta still wrap and steam them daily.
3 editor picks for Humita en Chala in Buenos Aires, ranked by editorial score. All Buenos Aires signature dishes · Humita en Chala across every city.
El Sanjuanino ★ 4.3
recoleta · Posadas 1515, C1011 Buenos Aires
Recoleta empanada institution since 1976. Salteña, tucumana and cuyana empanadas baked or fried, tamales and winter locro; family-owned three generations.
Feria de Mataderos ★ 4.3
mataderos · Avenida Lisandro de la Torre and Avenida de los Corrales, Mataderos, C1440 Buenos Aires
Sunday Mataderos fair on the old livestock-yard plazas. Provincial empanadas, asado off open coals, winter locro, tamales; gaucho displays alongside.
El Hornero Tucumano ★ 4.0
balvanera · Avenida Cordoba 1857, C1120 Buenos Aires
Balvanera counter specialising in the Tucuman regional canon: hand-formed empanadas of cuchillo-cut beef, humitas en chala and tamales. Cheap, fast, packed.