Peru

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Peru

12 recipes

Peruvian salsa golf with capers and orange zest in a small white bowl.

Salsa golf / pink sauce

A cold mayonnaise-and-tomato condiment family with distinct documented forms in Argentina, Peru and Puerto Rico; this draft records a Peruvian caper-and-orange version and keeps its regional relatives separate.

Argentina
· Condiments
Illustrative view of soft fermented Andean potatoes served with a little cloudy liquid.
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Tocosh

Peruvian Andean fermented potato: tubers held in water-fed earthen wells for a long lactic fermentation, giving an acidic food that can be dried and ground into flour for storage.

Huánuco, Peru
· Vegetables
Photograph of Salsa a la huancaína.

Salsa a la huancaína

A creamy Peruvian sauce of ají amarillo, fresh cheese and milk, served with potatoes. This source-based version sautés aromatics before blending the sauce.

Peru
· Condiments
A broad round, fork-docked pan chuta loaf from the modern home-scale recipe; market references show larger decorated Oropesa breads.

Pan chuta de Oropesa

Pan chuta is a broad, lightly sweet wheat loaf associated with Oropesa in Cusco; this home-scale version uses chamomile, brown sugar and butter.

Oropesa
· Grains and starches
Golden-brown chicha de jora in a clear glass beside panela, pineapple peel and malted maize on a warm ivory surface.
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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
Photograph of Protected solar-dried mushrooms.
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Protected solar-dried mushrooms

Protected solar-dried mushrooms are slices of wild Suillus luteus dried under a shade cover, a fitotoldo, rather than in open sun, as tested in an experimental study from Apurímac, Peru.

Apurímac
Two thin Ayacucho chaplas with golden, lightly browned tops and anise flecks, one torn to show its soft crumb.

Ayacucho chapla (Thermomix Peru home method)

A measured, yeast-raised Ayacucho chapla home method shared by Thermomix Peru presenter Roxanna Salaverry. It makes thin, anise-scented rounds baked at 240°C; the historic qunchu-leavened form is documented separately.

Ayacucho
Creamy green ají verde with herb flecks in a white ceramic bowl.

Ají verde (Peruvian green sauce)

Ají verde is a Peruvian green sauce of coriander, chilli, onion and garlic in a mayonnaise or cheese base. It is best known through Peruvian restaurant cooking abroad.

Peru
Condiments
An original illustrative rendering of a broad salted-dried pirarucu manta, pale and firm after salt curing and drying. It follows the documented broad sheet form; it is not a photograph of a particular fish, producer, or batch.
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Salted-dried pirarucu (manta)

Arapaima gigas split into broad mantas, salted, matured for days and dried into the sheets that travel Amazonian river markets as bacalhau da Amazônia.

Brazilian Amazon · Traditional method
Fish and seafood
Whole slender, salted and sun-dried Peruvian anchoveta arranged in a shallow unglazed terracotta dish.
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Carquín dried anchoveta

Anchoveta salted, drained of sanguaza and sun-dried on sand or stones at Caleta de Carquín, a technique declared part of Peru's cultural heritage in 2016.

Caleta de Carquín · Traditional method
Fish and seafood
Photograph of Tucupi negro.
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Tucupi negro

Tucupi negro is a dark, pungent sauce that Amazonian Indigenous women make by pressing bitter cassava, settling its starch and simmering the juice for hours until it thickens.

Pucaurquillo, Ampiyacu River, near Iquitos · Traditional method
· Condiments
Photograph of Ocopa.

Ocopa

Ocopa is a sauce from Arequipa, Peru, of huacatay, dried mirasol chillies, nuts, fresh cheese and soda crackers. It is usually spooned over boiled potatoes.

Arequipa
Condiments