recipes
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Recipes
Peru’s Suspiro a la Limeña is a True Delight
Manjar Blanco, the sweet milk, has a long history. Cervantes tells us that it was Sancho Panza’s favorite treat. It…
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Desserts
The Wondrous Manjar Blanco Makes Many Delights
(Cortesía: Lácteos Isla Blanca) Caramelized milk, called manjar blanco en Peru and in other areas dulce de leche, arequipe, or…
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Lime Pie (Pye de Limón) Tickles Cuzco’s Taste Buds
Lime pie, called in Spanish pastel de limón or pye de limón, is a much-loved dessert. It is well known…
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Ingredients
The Flexible and Fun Pichuberry or Aguaymanto
One of Cuzco’s native fruits and a close relative of the husk cherry or ground cherry, this bush has green…
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Peruvian Food
A New Peruvian Dish, Ceviche of Tarwi (Lupini Beans)
Have you ever tried a ceviche de Tarwi before? It is new dish in the Andes made of lupine seeds,…
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Drinks
The Beautiful and Bright Machu Picchu Cocktail
Perú celebrates itself with this brilliant cocktail named for its iconic site Machu Picchu. The name of the site means…
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Traditional Food
Rocoto Marmalade, an Old Cuzco Dessert
Peru is a hotbed of peppers. They come in many varieties and are used in many ways, sometimes even in…
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Recipes
A Simple Moraya Scramble to Delight You
One of the most consumed products in Cuzco, one that is eaten daily in household after household is the potato.…
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Food & Drinks
The Golden Potato of the Andes, Papa Rellena
Golden like the Inca sun, soft and warm like the embrace of your people. On opening it we discover a…
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Ingredients
Peanuts, the Magic of Cuzco’s Favorite Dishes.
Though well known throughout the world, the peanut, called maní in South American Spanish, forms a key part of Cuzco’s…
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