List of Peruvian dishes

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These dishes and beverages are representative of the Peruvian cuisine.

Traditional dishes[]

Cancha serrana

Ceviche with Peruvian fish

Anticuchos

Tiradito of Lima

Causa limeña

Arroz con mariscos a la limeña

Arroz con pato of Lima

Carapulcra

Jamón del país

Carne mechada

• : Pork, turmeric, ground garlic, vinegar, and salt.
• Adobo: Pork marinated with concho de chicha (corn beer sediment) and spices, cooked in a pot with onions, served with bread.
• Aguadito
• : Rice stew with vegetables with shellfish and some shrimps.
• Ají de gallina: A chicken stew made with cream, cheese, aji (hot pepper), and peanuts.
• : Prawns in a bread crumb and aji amarillo (hot pepper) sauce, green pepper too.
• Anticuchos: Grilled brochettes of beef heart, macerated in vinegar and aji panca (hot pepper).
• : Breaded alpaca meat, served with rice, potatoes, and salad.
• Aguadito de pollo: a traditional chicken soup in Peruvian cuisine consisting of chicken, cilantro, vegetables and spices.^[1]
• : Like Arroz con pato a la Chiclayana but the salad contains mashed avocado, carrot, mayonnaise, and other ingredients.
• : Tender duck meat cooked in black beer and cilantro.
• : Roasted meat of tasty Amazonian rodent.
• : Roast deer meat with rice and green banana.
• : Roasted pork, guinea pig, and peccary.
• : Chopped pork, mixed with garlic and spices, bound with egg and flour; this is boiled and wrapped in achira leaves like a tamale.
• : Stew of tender baby goat meat marinated in chicha de jora (fermented corn liquor whose origins date back to a time before the Incas) and vinegar accompanied with beans served with fried onions and garlic.
• : Stuffed banana balls
• : Ram head soup prepared with mint and aji peppers.
• : Thick soup made of carachama fish, with bananas and cilantro (coriander).
• Caldo verde: Soup made with potatoes and aromatic herbs from the region.
• : Roasted pork or lamb macerated in aji (hot pepper) and oil.
• Cancha: Corn tostado.
• : Dehydrated potatoes, boiled and cooked with pork and chicken, aji panca and mirasol (chili peppers), garlic, and other spices.
• Carapulcra: Boiled dehydrated potatoes made into a stew with pork and chicken, aji panca and mirasol (hot peppers), garlic, and other spices.
• Cau-cau: Cow stomach stew with potatoes, turmeric, and parsley. Sometimes served with peas.
• : Mashed yellow potatoes seasoned with lime and aji (hot pepper), and filled with tuna or chicken.
• Cecina: Dried and salted beef or pork.
• Ceviche: Raw fish filet cut into pieces and marinated in key lime juice, onions, and aji limo.
• : Scallops with lime, onion, and aji limo (hot pepper).
• : Raw fish and/or shellfish marinated in key lime juice. It is served with onions, potato, sweet potato, corn, and lettuce.
• Chairo: Beef and lamb soup with potatoes, lima beans, squash, cabbage, chuño or dehydrated potatoes, wheat, and chalona or dried lamb.
• : Medallions of beef heart, served with white rice and potatoes.
• Charqui: Dry salty pork meat.
• : Pork rinds fried in their own lard with an aji Colorado sauce (hot pepper).
• : Pork rinds fried in their own fat and accompanied with hominy or corn.
• : Fried pork rinds with toasted corn.
• : Fried pieces of river fish.
• : Pieces of octopus, fried. It is served with onion salad, tomato, potatoes, and cooked sweet potatoes.
• : Cebiche using the dry meat of the banded guitar fish.
• : Stew made from the offal of the baby goat, covered with onions, garlic, hot peppers, cilantro (coriander) and squash, mixed with grains of tender corn.
• : Boiled tender corn accompanies by fresh cheese.
• : Mashed chonta, palm, and paiche (fish), wrapped in banana leaves.
• : Mussels covered with diced onions and aji (hot pepper) and seasoned with key lime juice.
• : Mashed yucca, cilantro (coriander), and chicken innards, wrapped in banana leaves.
• : Beef soup with rice, garbanzo beans, and dehydrated potatoes.
• : Chowder made with shrimp, milk, eggs, and oregano.
• : Crab chowder.
• : Soup with a base of onion, tomato, aji (hot pepper), and bumblebee catfish.
• Cordero al palo: A whole sheep on a spit grilled over glowing embers.
• : Succulent pork meat marinated in vinegar and then roasted; it is served with boiled yellow potatoes and hominy (dried boiled corn).
• : Guinea pig, breaded with corn flour and fried and served with golden potatoes and salad.
• : Seasoned, cooked, and fried Guinea pig served with a potato stew, toasted peanuts, chopped onions and hot peppers.
• : Guinea pig breaded with corn meal and fried.
• : Guinea pig stuffed with parsley, black mint, mint, oregano, green onions, cleaned and boiled innards, and crushed toasted peanuts.
• : Roast beef, rolled and stuffed with ground pork and chicken meat, raisins, and hard boiled egg.
• : (the palm stem is also called pona).
• : Pieces of fish or chicken marinated in vinegar and steamed with plenty of onions.
• : Potato salad, with rocoto, vinegar, oil, tomatoes, and parsley.
• : Black beans with sesame seed and mirasol chili peppers.
• : Chicken soup with potato and rice.
• Huatia: Beef and potatoes cooked on hot stones with huacatay (black mint).
• Humitas: Mashed corn filled with seasoned beef or cheese, wrapped in corn shucks and steamed.
• : Chicken soup with peanuts, cilantro (coriander), and yucca cassava.
• : Prepared with corn, peanuts, and aji (hot pepper).
• Jalea: a lightly breaded and fried seafood dish.
• : Rice seasoned with turmeric, and chicken wrapped in banana leaves.
• Juane: Rice with paprika and pieces of chicken wrapped in banana leaves.
• : Chicken mixed with rice seasoned with spices and, wrapped in banana leaves.
• : Grated and boiled yucca mixed with rice and either chicken or beef jerky; this mixture is wrapped in a banana leaf and steamed.
• : Lima bean or mushroom soup with potatoes, milk, eggs, and cheese.
• : Concentrated key lime juice, fish, and blended aji limo (hot pepper). It is the by-product of the ceviche preparation.
• : Chicken broth with wheat.
• : A stew made of chicken, onions, potatoes, and aji peppers.
• : Mashed squash with corn, cheese, yellow potatoes and huacatay.
• Lomo saltado: Beef tenderloin slices, sautéed with onions, tomatoes, aji (hot peppers), and other spices. It is served with French fries and rice. Lima
• : Cooked and crushed yucca with aji (hot pepper) and accompanied with chicharron (fried pork rinds).
• : Mashed green bananas with a shellfish sauce.
• : A soup with a base of hulled corn cooked all night long with beef, cow stomach, and bacon (cuchiqara). It is seasoned with aji Colorado, (hot pepper), blended and toasted and diced mint.
• Mondongo: Beef soup with cow innards, pork rinds, corn, and parsley.
• : Mashed butter beans with roast beef or pork.
• Natilla: A typical dessert made from goats milk, chancaca (sugar syrup), and very fine rice flour.
• Ocopa: Boiled potatoes covered with a fresh cheese sauce, lima beans, onions, olives, and rocoto.
• : Olluco stew with jerky or llama meat
• Pachamanca: Variety of meats, potatoes, lima beans and humitas cooked in the pre-Hispanic style (on hot stones buried into the ground) and seasoned with aromatic herbs.
• : Pork, potatoes, yucca cassava, and sweet potatoes cooked in a pre-Hispanic style (on hot stones buried into the ground) and seasoned with aromatic herbs like wild sage.
• Pallares: A stew of savory butter beans seasoned with aji (hot pepper).
• : Fish sandwich, mainly silverside fish.
• : Pumpkin buns, cheese pastries, wheat and achita breads
• Papa a la Huancaína: Yellow potatoes with a spicy, creamy sauce
• : Boiled potatoes with aji (hot pepper) and huacatay (aromatic herb).
• : Concentrated soup of fish and shellfish.
• Pastel de choclo: Made with fresh corn, it can be either salty or sweet with raisins.
• : Wheat soup with beans, bacon, beef, and mint.
• : Fire roasted fish wrapped in banana leaves.
• : Soup made with cow innards, corn, and mint.
• : A soup made with beef, pigs feet, wheat, yellow potato, squash, starch, and garlic.
• Pebre: Soup with lamb, beef, and ram jerky.
• : Ram head soup, cooked with mint and the feet and stomach or innards of the ram; it is served with boiled potato and/or hominy.
• : Stew made with Guinea pig meat, peanuts, and spices.
• : Turkey stew with rice, tender blended corn, cilantro (coriander), and chili pepper.
• : Fried fish in a tomato, onion, and white wine salsa.
• : Steamed fish with an egg and onion sauce.
• : Fried fish in a shellfish sauce with aji (hot pepper) and garlic.
• : Mashed quinoa seasoned with milk and cheese.
• : Strips of dried and salted paiche fish meat served with onions, tomatoes, and aji (hot pepper).
• : A stew made with cow stomach, cows feet, beef jerky, onions, and oregano.
• : Guinea pig stew cooked in a peanut and an aji panca (hot pepper) sauce.
• : Barbecued guinea pig stew, seasoned with aji Colorado or amarillo (hot peppers). There is an old variation called jaka cashqui or guinea pig broth.
• : A stew made with mashed potatoes and aji Colorado (hot pepper), pieces of shellfish (limpets, surf clams) and sea weed (cochayuyo).
• : Spicy butter beans with milk, eggs and fresh cheese.
• : Cooked Guinea pig stew in a peanut and aji panca (hot pepper) sauce accompanied with potatoes.
• : Potato stew with peanuts, blended and toasted, seasoned with aji panca (hot pepper) and fried pork rinds. It is served with rice and salad.
• Puchero: Made with cabbage, fruit, chickpeas, sweet potatoes and yucca. It is usually prepared at Carnival.
• Purtumute: Boiled beans with mote sancochado (individual grains of corn boiled with cilantro).
• : Toasted and blended barley soup with aromatic herbs, potatoes, peas, eggs, and milk.
• : An appetizer made with cachipa or fresh cheese, crumbled and mixed with aji (a hot pepper), rocoto (a hot pepper), milk, oil and diced onions. It is served on a bed of potatoes.
• : Rocoto (hot pepper) without veins stuffed with chopped beef, eggs, peas, carrots, cheese, milk, and potatoes.
• Ropa vieja: Beef stew with beans, potatoes, rice, and cabbage.
• : Boiled beef with corn, sweet potato, carrots, cabbage, yucca, and potatoes.
• : Made from black scallops and green bananas.
• : Mashed corn and peanut filled with pork, wrapped in bijao leaves.
• : Soup of fresh corn, lima beans, dry aji Amarillo (yellow hot pepper), and huacatay (native herb).
• : Stew made of tender baby goat meat marinated in chicha de jora (a fermented corn liquor whose origin dates back to the time before the Incas) and served with beans seasoned with fried onions and garlic.
• : Beef jerky or dried beef stew with sweetened bananas.
• Shambar: Soup made with wheat, pork rinds, smoked ham, assorted beans, and green onions. It is served with toasted corn (cancha) and is made only on Mondays.
• Soltero: A salad of fresh cheese, lima beans, onions, olives, tomatoes, and rocoto.
• : Turkey and/or chicken soup with moistened bread, potato, milk, and cheese.
• : Stew made with onions, tomato, aji (hot pepper), surf clam, white wine and vinegar. It is served with boiled potatoes.
• : Crushed bananas mixed with lard then baked or fried. It is served with dry meat.
• Tacacho: A dish of mashed and kneaded green, roasted bananas with fried pork rinds. Generally, it is combined with cecina.
• : Mixture of beans and rice, fried, and topped with breaded and pan-fried steak and an onion salsa.
• : Homemade noodles served with a stew (chicken, beef, or lamb) and kapchi of chuño (dehydrated potatoes).
• : Mashed corn filled with beef wrapped in banana leaves.
• Tamales: Mashed corn filled with beef, wrapped in banana leaves, and steamed..
• : Concentrated broth made from fish and cilantro (coriander).
• : Egg tortilla made with dehydrated and re-hydrated ray meat.
• : Ram head soup, rice, potatoes and dehydrated potatoes. It is garnished with mint and aji (hot pepper).
• : Soup made with potatoes, cheese, eggs, and aromatic herbs.

Desserts[]

Picarones

Beverages[]

Chicha morada, with the purple corn and additional pineapple still in the water for flavor purposes.

• : Made from mashed, filtered, and sweetened fruit of the aguaje palm tree.^[2]
• Cachina: a partially-fermented wine^[3] based on fermented grape must.
• : A type of distilled liquor.
• Chapo: Made from ripened bananas, cooked and stirred, then served cold.
• Chicha de jora: Fermented corn drink, which origin and consumption predate the Incas.
• : Fermented peanuts liquor.
• : Fermented liquor of False Pepper fruit (also called Peruvian peppertree or molle)
• Chicha morada: Alcohol-free drink of purple corn juice.
• : Liqueur prepared with red, black, and green figs.
• : Cordial made from a bitter and astringent root, very popular in western Peru.
• : Made from the cocona fruit, sugar, and cordial.
• : Fermented and sweetened sugar cane juice.
• : Fermented sugar cane juice.
• : Made with the "huito" fruit, sugar, and cordial.
• : Liqueur prepared with a cordial, eggs, and key lime.
• : Made from cordial and whey filtered drop by drop until transparent.
• : Made from cordial, blackberries, and syrup.
• : Peach liqueur made with pisco.
• : Drink made of cooked, smashed, and fermented yucca cassava, with sweet potato or sugar.
• : Made with rum and cocona.
• : Drink of peanut, sesame, and other spices.
• : Drink made of maca, a local root with energizing properties.
• Ponche: This punch is made with sesame seeds, Brazil nuts, peanuts, pecans, grated coconut, vanilla, milk, cinnamon, clover, and sugar. On special occasions almonds and/or walnuts may be added. It is served with grated coconut and a glass of pure distilled sugar cane juice.
• : Made from cordial, fruit and pur pur seeds. Later, syrup is added.
• : Delicious juice made with aguaje, edible fruit of a native palm tree.
• : Juice of a common fruit from the area.
• : Juice made with the fruit of another native palm tree.
• : Juice prepared with fermented and toasted yucca.
• : Made with bark from different trees like the Brazilwood, clove vine, breadfruit, huacapurana, chuchuhuasi, rosewood, and ipururo, sweetened with honey and macerated in cordial.

Pisco cocktails[]

A Pisco Sour

References[]

Wikibooks Cookbook has a recipe/module on Ají de Gallina