Picarones are a dessert in the form of rings made with
ground wheat flour mixed with squash and sweet potato and sometimes bathed in
chancaca. Are a traditional dish of peruvian cuisine and Chilean and other
places in South America that, unlike other desserts, not accompanies the lunch
but that is consumed as a snack in the middle of the afternoon.
Ingredients:
1 pound uncooked pumpkin, or 3/4 cup canned pumpkin
1 pound sweet potatoes
3 Cinnamon sticks
2 teaspoons whole anise seed
1 teaspoon whole cloves
1 tablespoon instant yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup Pisco or other brandy
3 cups flour
1 quart vegetable oil
1/4 cup...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Chupe de camarones
If you want to spend a culinary
adventure traveling to Peru i would recommend "the chupe de camarones", is an
exquisite dish , unique and highly nutritious, origin of Arequipa, considered
by many as one of the highlights of the peruvian cuisine.
2 lbs shrimp ,
with shells and heads
4 cups water (more
if necessary)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 small red onion ,
finely chopped
1 garlic clove ,
finely chopped
1 tablespoon aji panca chili paste
(can substitute tomato paste if necessary)
1 teaspoon aji...
Monday, April 9, 2012
Mazamorra Morada
The purple pudding is a dessert typical
of Peru's cuisine made from purple cornstarch concentrate. This
dessert is prepared specially for the month of October,which marks
the month of the Lord of Miracles.
Purple porridge consumption is widespread, existing outlets on
the street that selllots of these and other traditional desserts of
Peruvian cuisine, such as rice pudding, rice Zambito, pumpkin porridge and shampoos.
Ingredients
Cook the corn kernels with purple cobs in...
Arroz con leche
Why in Peru things are more rich and
sweet?, It will be because we put the heart of everything we
do so with love I bring a dessert recipe rich and delicious,
the rice pudding.
Ingredients:
1 cup rice
5 cups water
1 cinnamon stick
1 can condensed milk
1 can evaporated milk
1 tsp butter
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp sugar
½ cup raisins
ground cinnamon
Cook the rice bowl with 5 cups water and cinnamon
stick to normal fire, oncecooked rice 2 incorporate
the milk stirring the...
Salchipapa
This dish is usually very rich and nutritious food to prepare,
prepare throughout Latin America, but in Peru receives special
affection because it is an easy dish,simple and quick to
prepare, goes with everything and is very popular with children .
The difference here is that other countries are added to the fried
eggs with potatoes mesclen and sausage (if special prepared
or better).
Just as the addition of exquisite Peruvian sauces, such as aji ocopa,
chili potatoto huancaina,...
Escabeche de Pollo
Peruvian cuisine is characterized by the use of
chicken because it is an easy birdbreeding, as well as the
speed and convenience with which you can cook a greatmeal without
having many hours in advance
Ingridients
6 chicken
2 large onions cut into thick slices
4 tablespoons vinegar
1 cup dry white wine
1 tablespoon ground chili
Oregano, salt and pepper
2 Fresh sliced peppers
1/2 cup oil
Olives, Hard-boiled eggs and lettuce
Boil the...
Pisco Sour

Ingredients:
•
7 ½ oz (or 3 parts) Peruvian Pisco
•
2 ½ oz (1 part) key lime juice
•
2 ½ oz (1 part) sugar syrup
•
1 egg white
•
Angostura bitter
Pour the Pisco, key lime juice and
syrup on a jar blender with...
Tamalitos de Pollo (Estilo de mi abuelita)

The Tamalitos Huanuqueños and Peruvian tamales are a totally different variety to the
Mexican.
Ingredients
1 kilo of corn or white corn
1 kilo of chicken cut-up (meat only)
1 cube chicken substance
15 pitted black olives
3 onions (purple) cut into cubes
3 hard boiled eggs
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 red pepper seeded and deveined
pepper, salt and cumin to taste
Panca 10 Sheets Large
Grate or grind the corn, and book
In a skillet or pot, heat 2 tablespoons...
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Papa Rellena (Peruvian Fast Food)
Ingredients:
1 kilo of white potato
250 g of ground meat (chicken, beef, mutton)
half cup of flour
1 egg
2 boiled eggs
Oil (necessary)
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 jar olives chopped
100 g of raisins, salt.
Boil scrubbed potatoes in salted water, peel and still hot roll
in the presser, oncewarm with 1 egg and knead sal.en a
saucepan heat the oil (2 tablespoons) and frythe onion, garlic,
brown, add the meat, cook 10 minutes, add the raisins
andchopped olives. With...
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Pachamanca Huanuqueña

This dish is the most representative of my country and
sacred land of the Incas, who worshiped the Pachamama or Mother Earth and her
tribute to cook their food in it.
This dish hails from the highlands of Peru and where I come from my beautiful
land of eternal spring Huanuco is a very special way.
First you open a hole in the ground which should be approximately 1 meter
depending on how much meat is used.
Step I
We make a hole in the ground regularly, usually two feet in diameter and
sixteen inches deep, for a barbecue for ten to fifteen people. We put a
few clean stones in the background as a first layer. Then,...
Arroz con Pollo
5 fillets of chicken or duck
1 cup white beer
1 cup dark beer
70 100 ml. vegetable oil
1 tsp. cumin
2 tsp. black pepper
180 grms. Aji fresh yellow liquid
140 grms. Liquefied dry chili
250 grms. Small onion (Brunnoisse)
300 to 400 grams. coriander liquefied
Lt. Chicken Broth ¾
1 kg rice
100 grams. carrots
100 grams. Alverjitas
1 Units. pepper
One day before the steaks marinate chicken or duck in
beer.
The...
Papa a la Huancaina

1 kg potatoes.
For the sauce:
400 GRMS cheese.
1 can evaporated milk
1 package crackers boy
2 yellow pepper
2 cloves garlic
¼ onion
Oil c / n.
Decoration and add:
Boiled eggs 04 (halved)
olive 08
Lettuce leaves (well washed)
Boil the potatoes, peel and split them into slices when cool
Fry some previously seeded pepper, the garlic and
onion, let cool.
To prepare the sauce, pour into blender chili, garlic and
onion, a bit of buckingcheese,...
Lomo Saltado

1 k (2.2
lb) of beef (tenderloin)
3 medium
onions, peeled, cut into 8
1 k (2.2
lb) of white potato, peeled and cut for chips
4 fresh
yellow pepper cut into thin strips
4
tomatoes cut into 8
2
tablespoons chopped parsley
1
tablespoon balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons
soy sauce
1 ¼ cup
oil
½
teaspoon lemon juice
salt
pepper
Fry in
pan with ½ cup of hot oil, loin or diced meat tiras.Retirar.
Brown in
the same oil the onion cut into long strips and tomatoes in thick slices, about
2 minutes.
Add
chopped parsley, salt, pepper, green pepper cut into long strips, soy sauce,
vinegar and tomato. Cook until the tomatoes have...
Arroz Chaufa (Peruvian style)

3 cups rice
250 g (9 oz) chicken fillet, cooked, cut into pieces
4 slices of bacon fat into small pieces
8 stalks of Chinese onion, finely chopped
½ red pepper, finely chopped
4 eggs
2 teaspoons ginger (ginger), finely chopped
Soy sauce or soy sauce to taste
Aji no Moto (monosodium glutamate)
1 tablespoon oil
salt
Recipe for the chicken fried rice:
Prepare rice with ginger and little salt.
Apart beat the eggs lightly, season and fry in a pan with little
oil.
Once the omelet is...
Causa Rellena con Atún
1 1/2 kilos of boiled yellow potatoes
oil (enough)
ground pepper to taste
lemon juice
salt and pepper
filling:
1 can of tuna
1 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup chopped onion (well washed)
1 hard boiled egg, chopped
1 large avocado, sliced
6 olives trcitos
chopped parsley
freshly cooked unpeeled potatoes and put through the masher,
mix with oil, pepper, juice, salt and pepper.
Divided into three parts, with the first line the bottom of
a mold disassembled 23 cm, diameter, oiled up is the 1/2 of
mayonnaise mixed...
Cebiche de atún
2 cans of
tuna
1 large onion cut in pen
1 clove garlic, minced
pepper, salt and, if necessary
lemon juice or sour orange
ground pepper to taste
chopped green pepper
1/2 tablespoon chopped cilantro
sweet potato boiled in slit
slice of corn
Flake the tuna in the boile.
Add orange juice or limoón, chopped and ground pepper,
garlic, onion, pepper and salt, let stand for 1/2 hour.
Serve sprinkled with coriander and serve with corn and
sweet potatoes....
Ají de Gallina

1/2 cup oil
1/4 kilo of onion
1/2 tablespoon minced garlic
6 liquefied green pepper
4 crustless bread
1 jar of milk
10 tablespoons Parmesan cheese
1/4 kilo of nuts
salt and pepper
potatoes, olives, boiled egg
2 kilos chicken
Parboil the
chicken in salted water, and tender, drain, cool and desilachar.
Heat oil in
a pan, fry the onion, garlic, chili, add the bread previously
soaked in a little chicken broth.
Cook for 10min,
add the ground nuts, grated cheese and shredded chicken to
serve, add...