Gastronomy

TYPICAL DISHES 

The representatives dishes in Chiquian are:Locro of cuy: It’s a thick cream made of potatoes seasoned with ground chili pepper. The cuy is cooked in charcoal base. This dish is Served on Santa Rosa’s festivity.

Pari: It’s a soup made of potato and milk, plenty of cheese and Chinchu (marigold). This soup is served as part of the breakfast.

Pachamanca: It has three meats (chicken, lamb and pork), also the dish has tamales, sweet tamale, beans, oca, sweet potato, potato, chilli and cheese with huacatay.

Chicharron: Pork  accompanied by mote (dry peeling corn) with a green onion sauce with green chilli powder.

Tamales: It’s made of peeled corn, stuffed with chicken and / or pork.

Holiday Soup: pieces of meat and green onion are boiled. It has a blend of minced garlic, green onion and chili and cumin mirasol. Is served at the Santa Rosa’s festivity.

Donuts, donuts are based on wheat flour, water and butter of anis.

Sweetbreads: Based on dried potatoes, flour, egg yolks, anise, sugar, pisco and toasted sesame seeds

Cheese chiquiano

Cast Beans: A soaked bean base then peeled, boiled and then passed through a cotton blanked  and return to pot to place molasses, sugar, cloves and orange peel.


Potato porridge, potatoes are peeled and scratched flat then soak the starch is removed and boiled potato with cinnamon, cloves, orange peel after the potato is cooked add the sugar and thickened with potato starch.

Chicharron con mote

     Pachamanca

Tamales

TYPICAL DRINKS 

Chicha de jora  

Chicha chiquiano style: It takes 15 days to be ready, be boiled in pots: wheat, barley, corn, quinoa, then it is drained into a tocullos blanked  after draining and cooling it is keep in jars of clay and then is added brown sugar and cover for fermentation.

Chicha de mani: Boil the ground peanuts lightly with cloves and cinnamon then it is drained with a cotton blanked, then it cools and finally it keep into jars of clay.

Fruits and vegetables

In the ravines produce: lima, pacay, sweet lemon, custard apples, peaches, avocados, persimmons, passion fruit, apples, Golden berry, elderberry, quince.

Vegetables: Lettuce, cabbage, radish, carrot, onion.

Vegetables: wheat, beans, quiwicha. Quinua.cebada, tarwi.