Moquegua Cuisine
The Best of Moquegua Peru Cuisine
The following list contains the best food from the department:
- Patasca moqueguana o caldo de mondongo: soup made with cow innards, corn, and mint.
- Picante de cuy: Guinea pig stew cooked in a peanut and aji panca (hot pepper) sauce.
- Chupe de camarones: Shrimp soup make with milk, eggs, and oregano.
- Cebiche de jurel or mixto: raw fish and/or shellfish marinated in lemon juice. It is served with onions, potato, sweet potato, corn, and lettuce.
- Parihuela: soup made with the base of aji colorado (hot pepper), onion, tomato, and a huge variety of fish and shellfish.
- Chupín de pejesapo: soup with a base of onion, tomato, aji (hot pepper), and bumblebee catfish.
- Sudado de machas: stew made with onions, tomato, aji (hot pepper), surf clam, white wine and vinegar. It is served with boiled potatoes.
- Aguadito de mariscos: rice stew with vegetables with shellfish added.
- Chicharrón de pulpo: pieces of octopus, fried. It is served with onion salad, tomato, potatoes, and cooked sweet potatoes.
- Picante de mariscos: a stew made with mashed potatoes and aji colorado (hot pepper), pieces of shellfish (limpets, surf clams) and sea weed (cochayuyo).
- Cuy frito: Guinea pig breaded with corn meal and fried.
The following is a list of the most typical desserts:
- Manjarblanco: sweetened, condensed milk cooked down and used as a spread.
- Alfajor de Penco: soft cookie.
- Various cakes and pies: corn, guargueros (lightly fried crispy pastry filled with manjar blanco), oquendos (sweet pastry)
The most traditional drinks are:
- Macerado de damasco: peach liqueur made with pisco.
- Leche de monja: liqueur prepared with a cordial, eggs, and lemon.
- Chimbango de tres higos: liqueur prepared with red, black, and green figs.
- Wine, pisco, licorice, cognac, and other pisco based fruit liquers.
The Pisco Route
- Moquegua is a special place where excellent piscos are created from the vineyards dotting the entire area of the Moquegua Valley. The Pisco Route allows the visitor to get to know the old colonial bodegas where the best vineyards in the department.
Content elaborated by the Commission for the Promotion of Peru - PromPeru
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