Humita En Chala appears as a signature dish in 1 Argentina cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Humita en Chala · Buenos Aires
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.
Where to eat in Buenos Aires:
- El Hornero Tucumano
- El Sanjuanino
- Feria de Mataderos