Ayacucho Cuisine
The Best of Ayacucho Peru Cuisine
Below is a list of representative dishes of the department:
- Qapchi: 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.
- Mondongo ayacuchano: 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.
- Patachi: whole wheat soup made with bacon, beef and vegetables.
- Puca picante: potato stew with peanuts, blended and toasted, seasoned with aji panca (hot pepper) and fried pork rinds. It is served with rice and salad.
- Uman caldo o caldo de cabeza: ram head soup, rice, potatoes and dehydrated potatoes. It is garnished with mint.
- Cuy chactado: Guinea pig, breaded with corn flour and fried and served with golden potatoes and salad.
- Pachamanca: different meats, potatoes, tender corn, lima beans and humitas (sweet tamales) cooked in a pit lined with heated stones in a pre-Hispanic style.
- Teqtes: stew with a base of peas, pumpkin, quinua, lima beans, and dehydrated potato, seasoned with aji (hot pepper), garlic, fresh cheese, milk and eggs.
- Pusra: toasted and blended barley soup with aromatic herbs, potatoes, peas, eggs, and milk.
- Adobo ayacuchano: pork stew of onions and potatoes, seasoned with aji colorado (hot pepper) and spices.
- Puchero: made with cabbage, fruit, chickpeas, sweet potatoes and yucca. It is usually prepared at Carnival.
Traditional Drinks:
- Ponche: drink of peanut, sesame, and other spices.
- There are also other traditional drinks like the chichas, fermented drinks made from various fruits and vegetables: chicha de jora (corn), chicha de molle (pepper tree seeds) and chicha de siete semillas (corn, wheat, barley and chickpeas).
In Ayacucho, there are also different types of bread like wawas, dulces de balay (maicillos, suspiros, oquendos), and mixturas. They also prepare mazamorras (a pudding-like dessert) of corn, pumpkin, llipta (mixture of different cereals) and others, as well as muyuchi, a typical Ayacucho ice cream.
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