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Humitas

The heat of a firewood oven, clay pots are the main protagonists of many smells and flavors connected with the value of the land. Meat, tubers, grains and herbs are used to a great diversity of simple and delicious dishes.

Among entrees we have corn with Andean cheese, corn salad (tarwi), “mote con chicharron” (boiled corn with pork), “cancha” (toasted maize), “humitas” (grinded corn or maize and wrapped in their own leafs to be cooked), “papa a la huancaina” (slices of boiled potatoes with cheese cream and yellow chili) and inchik uchu (boiled yucca served with peanut sauce, chili and cilantro).

Main dishes: “pachamanca” (roast beef, lamp, pork, guinea pig cooked over hot stones, with broad beans, potatoes and “humitas”, in a hole covered with leafs and earth), “patasca” (mote soup), cuy chactado (roasted guinea pig with the pressure of a stone), “cecinaa” (dry and dehydrated meat), “puka picante” (boiled pork and potatoes with seasoning of chili and beet), “cuchicanca” (roasted pig), “olluco con carne” (olluco stew and cured dry sliced beef or llama beef), “pesque” (quinua stew), “huarjata” (pig’s head stew), “sajta” (chicken stew with peanut), “chuñu lawa” (chuño cream with slices of meat).

Chairo

Soups: “chochoca” (corn flour), “sopa verde – green soup” (potatoes, egg, cheese and paico), “kapchi” (of broad beans), “lawa” (fresh corn coup, broad beans, dry yellow chili and huacatay), “chuño or morraya” (dehydrated potatoes), “llunca cashqui” (wheat), “chairo” (of roast beef and lamp, wheat, potatoes, broad beans, zapallo, and chuño and other ingredients).

Desserts : “chapana” (yucca flour jelly), “quesillo con mile” (curdled cheese and chancaca honey), “cicadas” (coconut and chancaca jelly), “tojosh api” (fermented maize mazamorra), “manjarblanco” (milk jelly) and jellies (of blackberries and other).

Aromatic herbs: cilantro, parsley, huacatay, paico, muña, hierbabuena.

Liquors: wines and handmade hard ciders, “chicha de maiz” (of maize and jora) and “quinua”.

Bread: a great diversity of bread (tanta wawas, santiagos, bolos, de agua, de tres puntas, semitas, made of wheat, barley, maize, oca, aniseed, potato and sweet potato), bread roll (of corn and quinua), cookies, schnecke and sponges (sweet).

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