Peru

🇵🇪Peru

Leche de Monja

A traditional Peruvian cream liqueur with a milk-and-spice profile.

🇵🇪Peru

Leche de Tigre

The milky, spicy citrus marinade left over from ceviche, served as a shot or small glass. Considered a hangover cure and aphrodisiac.

🇪🇨Costa (Coastal Ecuador), Ecuador

Limón Relleno

Limón relleno is Rocafuerte candied lemon filled with a soft sugar-and-milk confection, balancing bitter citrus peel with sweetness.

🇵🇪Lambayeque, Peru

Loche de Lambayeque

A unique squash from Lambayeque with Denomination of Origin (2010). Result of ancestral pre-Inca farming techniques.

🇦🇷Argentina

Locro de Zapallo

A lighter, vegetarian-friendly locro of squash, corn, and beans, without meat. A northern Argentine variation, served in winter with salsa criolla and bread.

🇵🇪Peru

Lomo Saltado

Stir-fried beef with onions, tomatoes, and ají amarillo, served with French fries and rice. Born from Chinese-Peruvian chifa fusion.

🇨🇱Chile

Lúcuma

A golden, sweet Andean fruit from Peru with a dry, mapley flesh. Used in ice cream, milkshakes and desserts.

🇵🇪Junín, Peru

Maca

Andean superfood root grown above 4,000m in Junín. Known for energy, stamina, and adaptogenic properties.

🇵🇪Peru

Majarisco

A Tumbes plantain-and-seafood dish served with fish, shellfish and coastal seasoning.

🇵🇪Loreto, Peru

Masato

A Loreto fermented yuca drink served in Amazonian homes and community gatherings.

🇵🇪Peru

Mashua

A peppery Andean tuber traditionally cooked in highland communities and markets.

🇧🇴Bolivia

Mate de Coca

A traditional Andean herbal tea of coca leaves, slightly bitter and used to combat altitude sickness. Common in the Peruvian highlands.

🇵🇪Peru

Mazamorra Morada

Deep purple pudding made from purple corn, dried fruits, cloves, cinnamon, and sugar. Pre-Hispanic origins, served warm.

🇵🇪Peru

Menestrón

Peruvian minestrone enriched with Andean herbs, beans, pasta and local vegetables.

🇵🇪Ayacucho, Peru

Mondongo Ayacuchano

Ayacucho's long-cooked mote and tripe soup served at festivals and family gatherings.

🇪🇨Ecuador

Máchica

Máchica is finely milled roasted barley flour stirred into coladas, pinol-like drinks, porridges or simple snacks.

🇵🇪Peru

Oca

A colorful Andean tuber with a lightly sweet flavor, eaten fresh, dried or cooked in highland kitchens.

🇵🇪Arequipa, Peru

Ocopa Arequipeña

Potatoes topped with a creamy sauce of ají amarillo, peanuts, huacatay, milk, and cheese. An Arequipa classic with Inca origins.

🇵🇪Peru

Olluco

A glossy Andean tuber sliced into olluquito stews and sold in Peruvian markets.

🇵🇪Peru

Olluquito con Charqui

Andean stew of olluco (native tuber) with charqui (dried llama or alpaca meat). Pre-Inca roots, deeply traditional.

🇵🇪Peru

Pacay

A long Andean fruit with cottony sweet pulp around large black seeds.

🇵🇪Peru

Pachamanca

Andean feast of meats, potatoes, sweet potatoes, fava beans, and corn cooked underground with hot stones. Honors Pachamama.

🇵🇪Peru

Pachamanca a la Olla

Pachamanca

A home-style Peruvian pachamanca cooked in a pot rather than an earthen oven, with pork, chicken, potatoes, beans and herbs.

🇵🇪Peru

Palta Rellena

A Peruvian avocado half stuffed with chicken, shrimp or tuna salad, creamy and refreshing. A classic starter.

🇵🇪Peru

Pan con Chicharron

Pan con chicharrón

Crispy fried pork belly with sweet potato slices and salsa criolla in a French roll. The Sunday creole breakfast.

🇵🇪Peru

Pan con Pejerrey

A coastal Peruvian fish sandwich made with fried pejerrey, bread and sharp salsa.

🇵🇪Peru

Pan con Relleno

A Peruvian breakfast sandwich filled with seasoned blood sausage or pork stuffing.

🇵🇪Peru

Pan Francés Peruano

The crisp-crusted everyday roll found in Peruvian bakeries and breakfast tables.

🇵🇪Peru

Papa a la Huancaina

Papa a la huancaína

Boiled yellow potatoes in a creamy, spicy sauce of queso fresco, ají amarillo, and milk. A classic Peruvian starter.

🇵🇪Peru

Papa Amarilla

A yellow-fleshed Peruvian potato prized for its buttery texture in causa, mash and stews.

🇨🇴Colombia

Papa Rellena

A Peruvian fried potato croquette, crisp outside and filled with seasoned beef, raisins, olives and egg. A popular snack and appetizer.

🇵🇪Peru

Papa Seca

Dehydrated Peruvian potato pieces rehydrated for carapulcra and other traditional stews.

🇵🇪Arequipa, Peru

Papaya Arequipeña

Small highland papaya from southern Peru, distinct from the large tropical fruit.

🇵🇪Peru

Parihuela

Rich, spicy Peruvian seafood soup with fish, shellfish, octopus, and crab in a tomato-ají broth. Often called the 'bouillabaisse of Peru.'

🇵🇪Peru

Pastel de Ahipa

A layered Peruvian casserole of ahipa, cheese and milk, baked until golden. An Andean comfort dish with a slightly sweet root vegetable.

🇵🇪Loreto, Peru

Patarashca

Fresh river fish seasoned with local herbs and wrapped in bijao leaves, grilled over embers. An Amazonian tradition.