Despite of its name, it isn’t cheese; this dessert is rather as an ice cream, but with more advantages: it’s more natural, fresh, without any chemicals and healthy. You’ll find it easily in Arequipa, a city in the south of Peru. It’s not complicated! this recipe is for 10 people (in theory… if you try it, it will be for 2 or 3 people).
This is a special way to prepare the coffee, typical of the north of Peru, specially from a city named Trujillo. You’ll need milk, black coffee (concentrated), sugar, vanilla, ground cinnamon and white rum. It’s a perfect drink for a cold night and a great option if you don’t want to be traditional. Surprise your family and friends with this recipe for 5 people.
This is one of the most delicious peruvian desserts. And the best of all: is very simple. With only a little of evaporated and condensed milk, eggs, vanilla and sugar, you’ll have a tasty dessert – and, if the weather in your region is hot, you’ll love it even more.
If you have come to Peru and have tried the manjarblanco alfajores (or if you prepared it), you’ll know how tasty it is. Well, for this weekend we have a variation: the sweet potato alfajores. It hasn’t manjarblanco, but a delicious stuffing made with sweet potato, egg yolks and sweet wine. Don’t lose it, it’s easy! this recipe is for 6 people.
Did you want to find some nutritional drink, but funny too? your search has finished. The milk liquor contains vanilla, pisco, port wine and, of course, milk. If you try this, you’ll throw away the Bailey’s. This drink is also used to make some desserts, but it’s better if you drink it first. Come on! it’s fast and very simple.
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, but you can use the dehydrated fruit too. Don’t forget the equivalence:
1 kg of fresh lucuma = 4 tablespoons of dehydrated lucuma
You have to rehydrate the lucuma flour with the same quantity of cold water for 2 or 3 hours, to get a puree.
If you liked the Lima-style sigh, you’ll love this too. This recipe is for 6 to 8 people.
Ah, l’amour… the suspiro a la limeña is a traditional creole dessert made of milk, named in this way by Jose Gálvez, a popular poet, for her wife Amparo Ayarez.
- Mr. Gálvez, what inspired you that name?
- Well… it is soft and sweet, like the sigh of a woman.
(A woman from Lima, a Limeña, of course).
Ok, let’s stop sighing and start making the recipe. This will give you 6 to 8 sighs.
If you like the sweet drinks, you’ll be in paradise with this cold cocktail. It contains algarrobina, pisco and condensed milk. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like it; you will cause an excellent impression in a meeting or party if you serve this cocktail. Just like any other sweet liquor, you must be careful… you must get “very happy” and don’t realize it. This recipe is for 6 people.
The alfajor (pl. alfajores) consist on two or more layers of baked pastry, in this case filled with manjarblanco, a caramel-colored, sweet cream made with milk and sugar (well, see the link). There is a lot of varieties, the recipe is not complicated and if you like the sweet desserts, you’ll be in heaven with this recipe for 60 little alfajores.
The manjarblanco (or manjar blanco -separated-, literally “white delicacy”) is a sweet, white spread or pastry filling made with milk. It’s used to prepare a lot of desserts (the churros, for example), but if you like, you can eat it on its own. There are two ways to prepare the manjarblanco, choice the one that you like more.
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