Andes

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Andes

3 recipes

Photograph of Tunta (moraya, white chuño).

Tunta (moraya, white chuño)

Potatoes frozen and thawed as for black chuño, then washed or soaked for a long time before drying, giving a pale highland tuber product with different bitterness and colour.

High Andes
Grains and starches
Illustrative dark, irregular, fully dried chuño negro tubers in a shallow woven basket against an Andean highland backdrop.
High risk

Chuño negro

Chuño negro is a source-documented Andean potato-preservation practice. This entry records producer tradition; it is not a validated household process for making potentially toxic bitter potatoes safe.

High Andes
Vegetables
Golden-brown chicha de jora in a clear glass beside panela, pineapple peel and malted maize on a warm ivory surface.
Elevated risk

Chicha de jora with panela and pineapple peel

A contemporary Ecuadorian recipe simmers jora flour with spices, then adds panela and pineapple peel before a short spontaneous ferment. Its particular aromatics and measurements belong to this published adaptation.

Cañar Province, Ecuador · Modern method
· Drinks