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Arroz con pato a la Chiclayana: Tender duck meat cooked in black beer and cilantro. Asado de picuro: Roasted meat of tasty Amazonian rodent. Asado de venado: Roast deer meat with rice and green banana. Asado de zamaño, cutpe and sakino: Roasted pork, guinea pig, and peccary.
Alpaca with aguaymanto sauce. In the valleys and plains of the Andes, the diet is still a traditional one based on corn (maíz), potatoes, and an assortment of tubers. Meat comes from indigenous animals like alpacas and guinea pigs, but also from imported livestock like sheep, cattle and swine.
Carapulcra, or carapulca, is an ancient Andean dish that has been prepared for centuries by both Quechua peoples and Aymara peoples.The original term for this dish in the Aymara language is qala phurk'a, which means a stew made with hot stones.
Escalope – boneless meat that has been thinned out using a mallet, [12] [13] rolling pin [13] or beaten with the handle of a knife, or merely butterflied. [14] The mallet breaks down the fibers in the meat, making it more tender, while the thinner meat cooks faster with less moisture loss. The meat is then coated and fried. [15]
It is generally made of lamb, mutton, alpaca, llama, guanaco, vicuna, pork, beef, chicken, or guinea pig, marinated in herbs and spices. Other Andean produce, such as potato or chuño (naturally freeze-dried potato), habas (fresh green lima beans in pods), sweet potato , mashua , oca , ulluco , cassava , yacon , plantain , humitas (corn cakes ...
Food pairing (or flavor pairing or food combination) is a method of identifying which foods go well together from a flavor standpoint, often based on individual tastes, popularity, availability of ingredients, and traditional cultural practices.
Ch'arki (Quechua for dried, salted meat, [1] Hispanicized spellings charque, charqui, charquí) is a dried, salted meat product. Andean charqui, made in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile, is from alpaca, llama, or alpaca-llama cross-breeds. Peru is the world's largest producer, producing approximately 450 tons annually. Brazilian charque is made from ...
A huarizo, also known as a llapaca, is a hybrid cross between a male llama and a female alpaca. Misti is a similar hybrid; it is a cross between a male alpaca and a female llama. The most common hybrid between South American camelids, [ 1 ] huarizo tend to be much smaller than llamas, with their fibre being longer. [ 2 ]