Tacacho con Cecina

The amazonian food is full of exotic delicacies. As starter we have the chonta salad that is much tasty. The meat and the banana are always present in every moment as main dishes, like tacacho with dried beef (barbecued bananas with pig meat, chopped onion and dry meat) and filled banana (pastry of banana with stuffing of peanuts).

Juane

Chachahuasi

The meat of bird, fish and wild animals are indispensable in the traditional dish: los juanes (rice pastry cooked sickly with slices of chicken, wrapped with bijao leafs), roasted of Picuro (very delicious rodent), apichado (prey of gilded pig cooked with grinded peanut and corn), patarashca (fish wrapped with banana leafs and it is roasted on fire).

Among soups, the inchicapi is distinguished (chicken with peanut dish, cilantro and yucca), carachama soup (carachama fish with bananas and cilantro).

Among beverages, aguajina is a very refreshing drink (based on aguaje fruit) and to cheer we have masato (cooked, crushed and fermented yucca with sweet potato), chuchuhuasi (fermented brandy with this root), uvachado (soaked of grapes) and chapo (cooked banana in water and milk).

Let me introduce myself. Peru is my name, nice to meet you.

Peruvian Dishes

A great understanding of cooking abilities and  the best cuisine is maybe the most widespread tradition between Peruvians. We eat everything and in any occasion. When someone is born, when someone dies, when the children become adults, when we want to tell the true or lie, to seduce, to convince or to love. A witness that don’t say nothing, a well-served table.

If sometime you hear a Peruvian say that our cuisine is the best one of the world, remember that we don’t say that because we like to brag, but we can say that two times. It’s true.

Our identity is represented in the cuisine: we are demanding companions at table, and many others, magic chefs. We live the democracy in our tables: there is going to be always a space where a cebiche takes place, a pisco sour or arroz con pato a la chiclayana (duck with rice – chiclayo style dish).

Our capacity to compose ourselfs, we express it by eating chifa, the name we give  Chinese food in Peru. Endless and colorful feasts that demand silence and discipline, mouthful after mouthful allows us to value what really means the diversity we have.

Geography? Eat gentleman, in Peru it’s like a trip. We have an amazing Peruvian ocean , crossing the Andes and the huge diversity of potatoes, even the Amazon, full of an exotic and natural cuisine, we have just one and a great route that makes Peru a unique territory. The route which outlines flavors.

Well, Peru is awarded with amazing lands and divinely abundant seas and for centuries we have thanked this talent, cooking, eating and creating, like gods do.

It’s a pleasure to introduce it. It is Peru and its flavors that invite you to get acquainted with it.