Peru

🇵🇪Ica, Peru

Carapulcra

A Peruvian dried potato and pork stew in a red aji and peanut sauce, thickened with chuño. An ancient Andean dish from Ica.

🇵🇪Peru

Caspiroleta

A warm Peruvian milk drink with egg, cinnamon and spirits, served as a restorative evening cup.

🇵🇪Peru

Cau Cau

A Peruvian tripe stew in a yellow aji and turmeric sauce with potatoes, mint and peas. A hearty, spicy dish from the coast.

🇵🇪Lima, Peru

Causa Limeña

Layered cold dish of mashed yellow potato seasoned with lime and ají amarillo, filled with chicken, tuna, or avocado.

🇵🇪Peru

Cañihua

Nutritious Andean grain similar to quinoa but darker and more resilient. Valued for food security in high-altitude regions.

🇵🇪Lima, Peru

Ceviche

Fresh raw fish cured in lime juice with red onion, aji amarillo, and cilantro. Peru's national dish.

🇪🇨Costa (Coastal Ecuador), Ecuador

Ceviche de Conchas Negras

A short-season black scallop ceviche from Piura and Tumbes, prized for its intense flavor.

🇧🇴La Paz, Bolivia

Chairo

Chairo paceño

An Altiplano soup with lamb or beef, chuño (freeze-dried potatoes), carrots, onions, and herbs, a smoky and hearty classic.

🇵🇪Peru

Chalona de Cordero

Air-dried salted lamb from the southern Andes, used to deepen soups and stews.

🇧🇴Bolivia

Chancaca

A Bolivian unrefined cane sugar block, used in desserts and drinks

🇵🇪Peru

Chancho al Palo

Huaral-style pork roasted slowly on a wooden spit until the skin blisters and crisps.

🇵🇪Peru

Chanfainita

A Peruvian pork blood and offal stew, spicy and dark, served with rice and sweet potato. A rustic dish from the Andes.

🇵🇪Ica, Peru

Chapanas

Ica cassava sweets wrapped in leaves and steamed with chancaca and spices.

🇦🇷Argentina

Charque

Charqui

Sun-dried, heavily salted beef from the South, historically a staple for long journeys and a key ingredient in traditional gaucho cooking.

🇵🇪Peru

Chaufa de Mariscos

Peruvian fried rice with mixed seafood, soy sauce, spring onions and egg. A chifa-Peruvian fusion dish.

🇵🇪Peru

Cherimoya

Chirimoya

Creamy, sweet Andean fruit rich in B vitamins. Mark Twain called it 'the most delicious fruit known to man.'

🇵🇪Arequipa, Peru

Chicha de Guinapo

Arequipa's dark corn chicha made from guinapo maize and served in picanterías.

🇧🇴Sierra (Andean Highlands), Bolivia

Chicha de Jora

Ancestral fermented corn beer from the Andes, made from germinated maize. Had ritual and social importance in the Inca Empire.

🇵🇪Peru

Chicha Morada

Non-alcoholic purple corn drink boiled with pineapple rind, cinnamon, cloves, and sugar. Pre-Hispanic, rich in antioxidants.

🇵🇪Peru

Chicharrón de Pescado

Peruvian crispy fried fish chunks, battered and deep-fried until golden. Served with salsa criolla and fried yuca.

🇵🇪Peru

Chicharrón de Pulpo

Crisp fried octopus pieces served as a Peruvian coastal seafood specialty.

🇵🇪Arequipa, Peru

Chicharrón Peruano

Crispy fried pork chunks with skin and meat, served with mint sauce and sweet potatoes.

🇵🇪Peru

Chilcano

Refreshing pisco cocktail with lime juice and ginger ale over ice. Named after a fish soup that was also a hangover cure.

🇵🇪Lambayeque, Peru

Chinguirito

Dried guitarfish prepared as a northern Peruvian seafood dish, especially associated with Lambayeque.

🇵🇪Cusco, Peru

Chiri Uchu

Cusco's ceremonial plate combining hen, cuy, chorizo, cancha, cochayuyo and tortilla for Corpus Christi traditions.

🇵🇪Lambayeque, Peru

Chirimpico

A Lambayeque goat-offal stew cooked with herbs, chili and regional aromatics.

🇦🇷Argentina

Choclo

Large-kernel Andean corn served boiled with cheese, sauces or ceviche across Peru and neighboring countries.

🇨🇱Bogotá, Chile

Choclo con Queso

A Colombian snack of cooked sweet corn (choclo) with fresh cheese, served warm. A simple, sweet-savory highland snack, especially in Bogotá and Boyacá.

🇧🇷Oriente (Amazonian Ecuador), Brazil

Chontaduro

A palm fruit native to the Colombian Pacific and Amazon, with orange-red skin and starchy yellow flesh. Eaten with salt or honey, a staple of Pacific cuisine. On Cali streets the boiled fruit is sold in paper bags with salt and lime (chontaduro con sal).

🇵🇪Peru

Choritos a la Chalaca

Callao mussels topped with onion, tomato, corn and lime in the chalaca style.

🇵🇪Arequipa, Peru

Chupe de Camarones

Thick, spicy river shrimp soup from Arequipa with yellow potatoes, cheese, milk, fava beans, corn, and eggs.

🇵🇪Peru

Chupe de Pollo

A Peruvian chicken chowder with potatoes, corn, peas and cheese, topped with poached egg. Thick, creamy and comforting.

🇵🇪Junín, Peru

Chupe Verde

A Junín green soup of potatoes, cheese and huacatay served hot in the Andes.

🇧🇴Puno, Bolivia

Chuño

A Bolivian freeze-dried potato, an ancient Andean preservation method

🇵🇪Puno, Peru

Chuño Cola

A Puno highland stew thickened with chuño and served as sustaining Andean fare.

🇵🇪Peru

Cocona

A tart Amazonian fruit used in Peru for juices, sauces and refreshing salsas.