Whether you are looking forward to watching the Big Game or you’re just in it for the commercials, food is key to an amazing Big Game party! Let me be honest, I don’t like to watch football! The truth is, most of the time I don’t even know what is happening. So I try to hide my ignorance by excusing myself to cook delicious food for everyone to enjoy throughout the game, while showing up for the halftime show and all the cool commercials.
Pork and Avocado Stuffed Arepas with Hatfield Quality Meats
Ingredients
- 6 arepas
- 1 Hatfield Quality Meats Oven Roasted Pork Loin Filet
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 small ripe avocados
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1 cup red onion slices
- ¼ cup fresh cilantro
Arepas
- 2 ¼ cups of water
- 2 cups arepa flour pre-cooked corn flour
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- ½ teaspoon salt.
Instructions
- To cook the pork: In a large sauce pan, heat the oil over high heat, add the strips of pork loin and cook for about 10-12 minutes or until browned, stirring frequently. Keep aside on a warm plate.
- In a small bowl mash the avocado and mix with lime juice and salt. Keep in the fridge until ready to assemble the arepas.
- To make the arepas: In a medium bowl add the water, arepa flour, butter and salt. Mix with your hands, making circular movements while breaking the lumps that may form with your fingers, until you have a dough. Let rest for 5 minutes.
- Preheat a non-stick skillet over medium heat. Form balls and flatten them gently until they’re about ½ inch thick discs.
- Place the discs on the skillet and cook the arepas for about 3 minutes on each side or until lightly golden brown. Cover them with aluminum foil to keep them warm.
- Split each arepa in half and fill them with pork, avocado mixture, cilantro and onion slices and serve.
My goal this year is to inspire you, my readers, to be creative and make something different for your Big Game party. Instead of the usual, chicken wings and pizza, let’s make one of my favorite recipes, Pork and Avocado Stuffed Arepas. This dish is simple, delicious and bursting with flavor, but also easy to make and perfect for watching the Big Game! If you are not familiar with arepas, they are basically corn cakes made with precooked corn flour and are very popular in Colombia and Venezuela. The arepa is one of my favorite dishes and they can be stuffed or topped with many different ingredients.
As an arepa lover, I’m always looking for new ways to enjoy them. This time I stuffed them with pork, avocado, cilantro and red onions. The Hatfield Quality Meats Roasted Pork Loin Filet was a perfect stuffing for my arepas. I loved the flavor so much that I didn’t have to marinade the pork before cooking it and that was a huge time saver for me.
The Hatfield Quality Meats Roasted Pork Loin Filet can be cooked in the oven, on the grill or on the stovetop. For my Pork and Avocado Stuffed Arepas, I cooked it on the stovetop in a skillet for 12 minutes. How’s that for quick and easy?
For more delicious recipes and inspiration, visit the Hatfield Quality Meats Big Game page. They also have an interactive build-your-own game-day playbook on their site where you can get simple meal recipes customized to your game-day event.
Elizabeth pergande
I am making chicken sloppy joes. thanks for the chance.
Elizabeth pergande
https://twitter.com/eliza_elliott/status/825032928086233088
Anonymous
Hola Erica,
I am a gringa and love to prepare Colombian food in Chicagoland. I am looking for a good sancocho gallina recipe. How about Mamitas?
I have the carne sancocho down, but want to learn gallina. One recipe i found had to,atoes in it and i have never eaten it that way.
Saludos,
Peggy Margarita
Will G
I don't think I will be making anything for the big game.
Will G
https://twitter.com/willgriesmer/status/825107232211730436
Chrissy
I am making buffalo chicken dip for the big game! It goes great with veggies, chips, beer batter bread - basically everything! 🙂
Chrissy
I tweeted! https://twitter.com/krisgan07/status/825182629611847680
Lisa Brown
Since it is just me and my husband, we are just having hamburgers.
jslbrown2009 at aol dot com
Lisa Brown
tweet-https://twitter.com/LuLu_Brown24/status/825298781897756672
jslbrown2009 at aol dot com
Julie
I will be making chicken wings, nachos, salad, brownies.
Julie
tweet-https://twitter.com/JewelWood/status/825328845477732352
mami2jcn
We're having wings.
mami2jcn
tweet--https://twitter.com/mami2jcn/status/825356485060345856
Natalie
I will be making teriyaki meatballs, homemade guacamole and salsa and chips, mini sliders and cupcakes for the big game!
Natalie
tweet - https://twitter.com/yarbr012/status/825373741358129157
Kristina
I'm making 7 layer taco dip and probably also pizza bites. We'll have chili in the slow cooker.
Steve
We are going to be making taco dip, shrimp, onion rings, mozz sticks, cheese and crackers and other good stuff
groogruxking40 @ gmail dot com
Steve
tweet- https://twitter.com/groogruxking40/status/825398847358787588
Elena
I am making chicken wings
Elena
https://twitter.com/ElenaIstomina/status/825399582242676736
Mita
https://twitter.com/mitajdav/status/825441476079411200
Mita
We are making Pizza, vegetable rice, Salads and the Hatfield Quality Meats Roasted Pork Loin Filet.
Jessica To
I am planning on making Buffalo Chicken dip and loaded potato skins.
Dana
Those look delicious! I am thinking about making Meatball Sliders but I might make this instead!
Dana
https://twitter.com/tatzgrrly/status/825512418411429889
Jessie C.
I am making honey BBQ chicken strips and pork cabbage dumplings.
tcarolinep at gmail dot com
Jessie C.
tweet-https://twitter.com/tcarolinep/status/825571889149997058
Rachel
For the big game I plan on making shredded beef sandwiches and nachos.
Rachel
https://twitter.com/RachelGriesmer/status/825740124696739841
Kristen
I am not cooking this year for the game...we are going out and will probably eat burgers and sweet potato fries, or maybe wings. But I am pinning this recipe to try very soon...it looks so delicious!
Kristen
tweeted
https://twitter.com/rubylorikeet/status/825794758555561984
Kelly D
I will make a bread bowl with spinach dip.
Kelly D
tweet
https://twitter.com/Kellydpa/status/826146476422287360
Susan Smith
I will be making chicken wings, nachos and chili.
Susan Smith
https://twitter.com/susan1215/status/826258674872094721
Tee
We are having hamburgers, veggie, fruit and cheese plate, spinach dip and chips.
Tee
I tweeted https://twitter.com/Teeanderson01/status/826614647839145984
aaron reck
We like bean nachos so that is what we will be having.
aaron reck
https://twitter.com/areck0001/status/826616916030681089 here is the link to my tweet.
Susan Smith
https://twitter.com/susan1215/status/826822120109985792
Jeannett
I absolutely must make this!!!!
heather
Let's see for the Big Game Day I am making nachos, wings, hamburgers and lots of dips for the chips.
heather
My tweet - https://twitter.com/myway070/status/826968692256681984
Madeline
I'll make tacos because they're always a hit and even the younger crowd enjoys them.
Madeline
Tweet link: https://twitter.com/shala_darkstone/status/827235048692789249
rachel
I'm thinking nachos! And something sweet, like brownies shaped like footballs 🙂
Stefanie G
I am making chicken wings & chocolate cupcakes!
Stefanie G
tweeted https://twitter.com/stephcouponsxx/status/827588551575470081
Rebecca W
My kids really love buffalo chicken wings for football games, although we might just do a pizza. I love veggies and dip.
Rebecca W
https://mobile.twitter.com/Michael64263870/status/827965408980369408
Allison Marie
I'm making philly cheese steaks and cheese sticks with marinera sauce for the big game.
LAMusing
Home alone so I just picked up a meatball sub 🙂
LAMusing
tweeted - https://twitter.com/LAMusing/status/828492635203477505
Debbie B
that looks delicious but i just made a queso dip with tortilla chips for the big game!
Debbie B
i posted a tweet here:
https://twitter.com/purplepanda1966/status/828988079750914048
Rebecca Thomas
I made pulled pork sliders with maple-chipolte BBQ sauce!!
kjasus
i made chicken wings for the game
kjasus
https://twitter.com/raggammuffin/status/829017831144558593
Jeffrey
My wife had to work (in her eyes, she got to work) so it was just me and the boys watching the big game. We had homemade pizza, mine was topped with mozzarella, caramelized onions, roasted garlic, arugula, smoked gouda and anchovies! My oldest had a pepperoni pizza and my youngest had cheese.
Jeffrey
I shared on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FireRunner2379/status/829040242585894912.
OFG
https://twitter.com/OneFrugalGirl/status/829799001755152384
OFG
Cheesy beef nachos! Yum!
Elle
I made 2 different kinds of homemade pizza and a veggie platter with homemade dips and salsa.
Elle
Tweet: https://twitter.com/PrettyHotPink6/status/830470543207829504
Margaret Smith
We made wings, meatballs and mozzarella sticks. Thanks so much.
Margaret Smith
Tweeted: https://twitter.com/peg42/status/830946832670945280
Thanks again.
Cynthia C
I made chili with tortilla chips.
Cynthia C
Tweet
https://twitter.com/clc408/status/831203019689713667
Wanda McHenry
We had 3 varieties of chicken wings (Honey bbq, General Tso's and Buffalo) with celery, carrots and green onions along with ranch or blue cheese dressing .
Wanda McHenry
https://twitter.com/myfolly/status/831439467672113152
Kathy Persons
https://twitter.com/mkjmc/status/832275785486651393
Kathy Persons
I made pizza and chicken wings
Amy Tong
I made chicken wings. can't wait to try this out for other gatherings!
amy [at] uTry [dot] it
Anne
Please don't hate me if I say I didn't watch the Big Game! It was just me and the dogs in the house that weekend, and none of us really follow football. I did have some nice homemade yogurt though, with yummy granola and honey. 🙂
Anne
I tweeted about your lovely arepas recipe and the Hatfield giveaway:
https://twitter.com/NotherAnneOther/status/832682162264604672
Thanks!
Linda C
I made a big pot of Caldo de Res.
Linda C
Tweet https://twitter.com/Lindiac/status/833434206575407105
Stephanie Phelps
I am making pulled pork quesadillas and homemade guacamole and fresh pico as well as some smoked wings!
Stephanie Phelps
I tweeted
https://twitter.com/my4boysand1/status/833707608292859905
Barbara Montag
For the big game we all had hot chicken wings and drummies.
Along with cocktail weinies, guacamole dip chips and veggies.
thank you
Barbara Montag
Tweet https://twitter.com/JalapenoMama/status/833859892268109826
Allison Swain
I will make tacos. Thanks for the nice giveaway!
allisonrsdswain(AT)gmail(DOT)com
Allison Swain
Tweet:
https://twitter.com/allisonrswain/status/835006841604169728
Bert Ruiz
Sweepstakes entry- We had nachos, pizza & sub sandwiches.
Thomas Murphy
I made pizza for the game.
Thomas Murphy
tweeted
https://twitter.com/thomasmurphy40/status/835735444235112448
Bert Ruiz
#SweepstakesEntry tweet https://twitter.com/iamdadtastic/status/835735048254963712
Betty C
I didn't make anything special for the big game. My snacks are usually chips and dip.
Betty C
Tweet - https://twitter.com/willitara/status/835958298025295872
Kerry
We had meatball, veggie pizza, and a few other appetizers:)
Kerry
tweeted: https://twitter.com/KerryBishop/status/835964295078895617
Ellie Wright
We had burgers and nachos.
Ellie Wright
tweeted
https://twitter.com/eswright18/status/835988587988516866
Jerry Marquardt
I am making for Seered Alaskan King Crab the Big Game! How delicious. Nice large King Crabs served with both melted butter and red cocktail sauce.
Jerry Marquardt
I publicly Tweeted this giveaway: https://twitter.com/versatileer/status/835995166733398016
sarah k
I'm not sure, maybe some homemade pizza.
Anonymous
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