Amazonas Cuisine
The Best of Amazonas Peru Cuisine
The following list highlights some typical dishes of Amazonas:
- Purtumute: Boiled beans with mote sancochado (individual grains of corn boiled with cilantro).
- Cuy con papas: Seasoned, cooked, and fried Guinea pig served with a potato stew, toasted peanuts, chopped onions and hot peppers.
- Juanes de yuca: Grated and boiled yucca mixed with rice and either chicken or beef jerky; this mixture is wrapped in a banana leaf and steamed.
- Tamales: Mashed corn filled with beef, wrapped in banana leaves, and steamed..
- Humitas: Mashed corn filled with seasoned beef or cheese, wrapped in corn shucks and steamed.
- Enrollado: Roast beef, rolled and stuffed with ground pork and chicken meat, raisins, and hard boiled egg.
Traditional drinks:
- Guarapo: drink made from boiled and fermented sugar cane juice.
- Chuchuhuasi: cordial made from a bitter root of the same name; very popular everywhere in eastern Peru but found only in the Province of Condorcanqui.
- Licor de mora: made from cordial, blackberries, and syrup.
- Licor de leche: made from cordial and whey filtered drop by drop until transparent.
- Pur Pur: made from cordial, fruit and pur pur seeds. Later, syrup is added.
Content elaborated by the Commission for the Promotion of Peru - PromPeru
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