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{{Use American English|date = April 2019}}
{{Short description|Chilean condiment}}
{{Refimprove|date=November 2006}}
{{Infobox prepared food
| name             = Pebre
| image            = Pebre_chileno.jpg
| image_size       = 250px
| caption          = A [[paila]] with pebre.
| alternate_name   = 
| country          = [[Chile]]
| type             = [[Condiment]]
| served           = [[Chilled food|Chilled]]
| main_ingredient  = Tomato, onion, ají, oil, red wine vinegar, parsley, coriander, salt
| calories         = 
}}{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2019}}'''Pebre'''<ref>Word taken from catalán (1555) "pebre", thus from [[Latin]] ''piper, -eris'' - Coromines, Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua Castellana {{ISBN|978-84-249-1332-8}}</ref> is a Chilean condiment made with coriander, parsley, chopped onion, vinegar, a neutral oil, ground or pureed spicy [[Capsicum baccatum|ají]], and usually chopped tomatoes. Pebre is most commonly used on bread. It is also used on meat, or when meat such as [[choripán]] is provided in a bread roll. In [[Norte Grande, Chile|far northern Chile]], the term '''pebre''' refers to a sauce more like Bolivian [[llajwa]].

==History==

The word ''pebre'' in [[Catalan (language)|Catalan]] means pepper of any type, in this case ají cultivars of [[chilli pepper]]. In the rest of Spain, it refers to a sauce made of vinegar, pepper, saffron, clove, and other spices.<ref>Sebastian de Covarrubias Orozco, Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española {{ISBN|84-7039-685-4}}</ref>

The origin of pebre as a sauce in Chile dates to the arrival of [[Catalan people|Catalan]] engineers and highly skilled masons under the supervision of the [[Italian (people)|Italian]]  architect [[Joaquin Toesca]], for the construction of the Tajamares de Santiago, the fluvial channels, river walls and bridges for the main river that intersects the city of [[Santiago de Chile|Santiago]], the [[Rio Mapocho]] (Mapocho River). Catalan workers made a simple sauce (salsa) with cilantro, oil, vinegar and salt, called pebre for its main ingredient, the [[Capsicum baccatum|ají]].

==See also==
* [[Pico de gallo]]
* [[Vinagrete]]
* [[List of tomato dishes]]

==References==
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{{Cuisine of Chile}}
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