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South American recipes
25 South American recipes, so far only from Peru. Each one says which country it belongs to and where the recipe came from.
- Aguadito, sourced from Peru. A green chicken and rice soup whose coriander is blended raw and stirred in at the very end. Chicken.
- Ají Amarillo Paste, sourced from Peru. Yellow chillies deveined and boiled in three changes of water, which is what takes the heat out and leaves the fruit behind. vegan.
- Ají de Gallina, sourced from Peru. Shredded poached chicken in a thick yellow sauce whose bread is soaked in the poaching broth rather than in milk. Chicken, Egg.
- Anticuchos, sourced from Peru. Beef heart marinated overnight in ají panca and grilled hard, basted with the marinade as it cooks. Beef.
- Cancha, sourced from Peru. Dried corn toasted in a covered pan and shaken constantly, which splits it open without popping it. vegan.
- Carapulcra, sourced from Peru. Dried potato toasted dry before it is soaked, then stewed with pork until it drinks the whole pot. Pork.
- Ceviche, sourced from Peru. Cubed raw fish in lime for minutes rather than hours, with the marinade poured off and drunk. Fish.
- Chairo, sourced from Peru. An Andean soup built on freeze-dried potato, soaked and crushed, whose black soaking water is thrown away. Pork, Lamb.
- Chupe de Camarones, sourced from Peru. A prawn chowder whose broth is made entirely from the heads, fried hard and pressed through a sieve. Shellfish, Egg.
- Huatia, sourced from Peru. Potatoes baked inside a dome of dried earth clods which is fired and then collapsed onto them.
- Humitas, sourced from Peru. Fresh corn ground with its own milk and no flour at all, wrapped in its own husks and steamed.
- Jalea, sourced from Peru. A platter of floured fried seafood with the salsa criolla piled on top at the table and never before. Fish, Shellfish, Egg.
- Juane, sourced from Peru. A rice and chicken bundle tied in leaves and boiled rather than steamed, so it cooks under water. Chicken, Egg.
- Lomo Saltado, sourced from Peru. Beef and onion seared in a screaming pan with the chips fried separately and tossed in off the heat. Beef.
- Ocopa, sourced from Peru. The same boiled potatoes as huancaína under a darker sauce built on huacatay, fried onion and toasted nuts. Egg.
- Pachamanca, sourced from Peru. Meat and roots cooked in a pit between stones heated until they crack, sealed under earth for two hours. Chicken, Pork, Lamb.
- Papa a la Huancaína, sourced from Peru. Boiled potatoes under a yellow sauce thickened with soda crackers, which is what stops it being a thin cheese dressing. Egg.
- Picarones, sourced from Peru. A yeasted squash batter too wet to roll, shaped in the air with wet hands and dropped straight into the oil. vegan.
- Purtumute, sourced from Peru. Beans and hulled maize cooked apart because they take different times, then brought together with raw coriander. vegan.
- Salsa Criolla, sourced from Peru. Sliced red onion soaked in cold water to take the harshness out, then dressed at the last minute so it stays crisp. vegan.
- Shambar, sourced from Peru. A thick wheat and bean soup where the wheat is soaked overnight and cooked before anything else goes near the pot. Pork.
- Tacacho, sourced from Peru. Green plantain roasted rather than boiled, then pounded with pork fat and pressed into balls. Pork.
- Tacu-tacu, sourced from Peru. Yesterday's rice and beans pressed into the pan, left to crust, and then rolled over on itself. Egg, vegetarian.
- Teja, sourced from Peru. A milk caramel cooked down until it holds a shape, wrapped round a pecan and coated in hard white fondant. vegetarian.
- Tiradito, sourced from Peru. Fish sliced thin as sashimi with a blended ají sauce poured over it, never tossed through. Fish.
What counts as South American
A country on the South American continent.
This rule is ours. It is not borrowed from any standard, so it is a choice rather than an authority, and you may reasonably disagree with where it lands.
ROY NAMED THIS REGION ON 15 OCTOBER 2026 -- "South America should be the region for peru" -- and the rule above is his sentence "peru is a country in South America" generalised. No borderline has had to be decided yet: Peru is nobody's edge case. Trinidad and Tobago, Panama and the Guianas will be decided here, in the open, when a recipe needs them to be. The ranking file classifies South America as a subregion of the Americas; this site has no Americas region and rootNote says every region hangs off the root rather than off a continent, so the kind above is a description and not a hierarchy.