Posted in Fruits, Liquors & Drinks on Jul 8th, 2008
You can prepare a lot of drinks using our Pisco and you’ll ever get a delicious liquor. We’ve already seen a strawberry cocktail, a pisco margarita and even a mango sour, another version of our popular pisco sour. This recipe is for 6 people. Come on, it’s not complicated.
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Posted in Fruits, Main Courses on May 8th, 2008
The Malarrabia is a traditional dish from Piura, a beautiful region near to the peruvian border with Ecuador. It has a peculiar mix of ingredients (bananas, onions, fresh cheese and milk). It’s prepared in Holy Friday, and it’s usually served with beans and sudado de pescado. This recipe is for 6 people.
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Posted in Fruits, Liquors & Drinks on May 7th, 2008
The pisco let us to make delitious variations of known drinks. If you haven’t tried a strawberry drink with our national liquor, you’ll fall in love with it, specially in summer. It’s simple and cool. Ok, let’s do it.
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Posted in Desserts & Bakery, Fruits, Milk on Apr 15th, 2008
The lucuma sigh is a variation of suspiro a la limeña, or Lima-style sigh. The preparation is also similar, but the main change is -obviously- the use of lucuma. Remember the lucuma? we talked about it when we saw the lucuma bavarois recipe: as we said, maybe it’s hard for you to find fresh lucuma, [...]
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Posted in Desserts & Bakery, Fruits on Mar 31st, 2008
The lucuma is a fruit of Andean origin, almost exclusively of Peru. It’s hard to describe its taste; it’s very sweet, with an orange color and feels very soft (delicious, in short). If you don’t live in Peru, maybe it’s easier for you to find the dehydrated lucuma: don’t worry, we can use it too [...]
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Posted in Fruits, Liquors & Drinks on Feb 25th, 2008
A few weeks ago, we learned the pisco sour recipe. That had the lime juice as a principal ingredient; today, we’ll make a delicious change: ladies and gentlemen, the mango sour for 4 people.
(Note: this drink is not only tasty, but healthy too. The mango is low calorie; it contains antioxidants, vitamin C and vitamin [...]
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Posted in Desserts & Bakery, Fruits on Feb 19th, 2008
The mazamorra morada is a jelly-like dessert, purple as one of its main ingredients: the purple maize. It’s typical from Lima, the capital city of Peru. When it’s in a same dish or glass with the arroz con leche (rice pudding), it’s called ClĂĄsico (”classic”). If you liked the chicha morada, you’ll love this dessert.
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