Posted in Chicken & other birds, Main Courses, Rice on Sep 4th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Chicken & other birds, Soups on Jul 16th, 2008
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.
Posted in Chicken & other birds, Entrees & Sandwichs, Potatoes on Jun 26th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Chicken & other birds, Rice, Soups on May 2nd, 2008
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.
Posted in Chicken & other birds, Soups on Mar 24th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Chicken & other birds, Entrees & Sandwichs, Vegetables & Legumes on Mar 18th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Chicken & other birds, Main Courses on Mar 3rd, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Chicken & other birds, Main Courses, Rice on Dec 27th, 2007
Delicious and traditional dish with rice, chicken, peas and corn, originary of the central coast in Peru. For 8 people:
Posted in Chicken & other birds, Main Courses on Dec 12th, 2007
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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