Peruvian Cuisines | Traditional Peruvian Dishes To Try In Peru

Traditional Peruvian food is all about spices and it’s big on flavours. Some flavours clean and crisp while others deep and heavy. Peru is recognised everywhere for its food. Given Peru being a major fishing nation, fish is found abundantly there and is prepared and cooked with imagination and of course the spices and flavours. The flavour that you’d find in almost every traditional Peruvian dish is ‘AJI’ or Peruvian hot pepper which is the yellow aji pepper, the red aji pepper and red rocoto pepper.

Assume to find rice, potatoes, chicken, pork, lamb, and fish in every traditional Peruvian dish. Culinarily speaking, Peru is home to dishes and flavours one will find nowhere else. Traditional Peruvian cuisine has only recently become the culinary trend internationally. Owing to varied climate in the country, from high altitude to low, Peru promises quite a massive diversity of produce, and I am talking about potatoes here. Peru produces over 3800 different types of potatoes and the native AJI chillies of Peru are often pulped into sauces.

Before further ado, let’s indulge in the goodness of some traditional Peruvian dishes that are edible delights from Peru-

Ceviche, Lomo Saltado (stir fried beef), Aji De Gallina (creamy chicken), Cuy (guinea pig), Rocoto Relleno (stuffed spicy peppers), Causa (potato casserole), Papas a la Huancaina (potatoes in spicy cheese sauce), Anticuchos De Corazon (grilled beef heart), Pollo a la Brasa (roasted chicken) and Tiradito.

Having spoken quite a lot about traditional Peruvian food and the dishes you must try while in Peru, how about a little flavour back from our country India? Let’s agree, we all need those easyrecipes for dinner for the laid back, tired and lazy individuals we become by the end of the day and of course some easy Indian breakfast recipes without which our day does not begin. Don’t head out for your Maggi boy, some easy recipes for dinner will save your day. Let the cooking begin!