Gastronomic Tips

The main typical dishes of the region are the following:

• Uman caldo: sheep head soup with mint and aji (hot pepper).
• Yaku chupe or sopa verde: soup made with potatoes, cheese, eggs, and aromatic herbs.
• Huallpa chupe: chicken soup with potato and rice.
• Mondongo: beef soup with cow innards, pork rinds, corn, and parsley.
• Patachi: wheat soup with beans, bacon, beef, and mint.
• Pachamanca: variety of meats, potatoes, lima beans and humitas cooked in the pre-Hispanic style (on hot stones buried into the ground) and seasoned with aromatic herbs.
• Chicharron colorado: pork rinds fried in their own lard with an aji colorado sauce (hot pepper).
• Cordero al palo: a whole sheep on a spit grilled over glowing embers.
• Asado de zamaño, cutpe and sakino: roasted pork, Guinea pig, and peccary.
• Chicharrón de pescado de río: fried pieces of river fish.