This is a traditional dish originated in the north of Peru (the city of Chiclayo is very popular due its cuisine, and the rice with duck is typical from there). It’s similar to the rice with chicken, but you’ll find an all new taste in this recipe. Follow it and you’ll get rice with duck for 4 people.
The inchicapi is a tasty creamy soup originated in the Amazonic area (regions of Loreto, Ucayali and San Martin). It contains hen, toasted peanuts, cilantro, garlics, and onions (well, if you don’t get hen, you can use chicken). You’ll be delighted. This recipe is for 5 people.
The causa can have infinite variations. We’ve already seen the tuna causa, the Lima-style causa, and even a causa rolls stuffed with crab. Peru has a lot of versions of the potato, and most of them let us to prepare more and more different dishes. But we have today a colorful kind of causa, and we get it using beet. How? let’s prepare it. This recipe is for 6 people.
Aguadito is the diminutive of aguado, and it refers to something with an excess of water. But being a soup, there isn’t an excess; the name compares the dish with the arroz con pollo (rice with chicken), that’s prepared in a similar way and it’s traditional too. This recipe is for 8 people.
Yes, another dish with an odd name (remember the Sopa seca/Dry soup, which wasn’t a soup?). Well, the theologian soup isn’t made of priests; the tradition says it was a creation of the Dominicans in the first years of the 17th century, celebrating the finish of a conflict with the Franciscans. You’ll feel in heaven (and you’ll resurrect if you have been celebrating the night before) with this recipe for 8 people.
A tamal is a mix of boiled corn with meat or cheese, all wrapped in a banana leaf. It’s usually eaten in the breakfast or as an entree in the lunch; almost all of the peruvian food restaurants have some type of tamal. It’s served with onion sauce. The tamal is similar to the humita (we’ll learn how to make this one too – later). With this recipe, you’ll prepare 10 tamales.
Yes, an strange name. The sopa seca, as we explained in the Pork Carapulcra recipe, is not a soup but spaguetti with chicken (or hen), onions, garlics, basil, raisins and olives. In Ica city (south of Lima), it’s served with the carapulcra as a traditional dish. In this mix, there’s no rice; it’s one of the few dishes without this so popular garnish. Visit Ica virtually with this recipe for 4 people.
Delicious and traditional dish with rice, chicken, peas and corn, originary of the central coast in Peru. For 8 people:
The Aji de Gallina or Chili Chicken is a dish with thin strips of chicken served with a creamy yellow and spicy sauce, made basically with aji amarillo (yellow peppers), cheese, milk, bread, and walnuts. Traditionally from non-laying hens, but today almost exclusively made from more tender chickens. This recipe is for 10 people.
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