Local Dishes

1. Ch'arki

   Ch'arki (salted, sun-dried meat)

2. Ch'uñu

   Ch'uñu (freeze-dried potato)

3. Muraya

   Muraya (white chuño, "tunta")

4. Pachamanka

   Pachamanka (meat and tubers baked in an earth oven)

5. Aycha kanka

   Aycha kanka (meat roasted over fire or coals)

6. Quwi kanka

   Quwi kanka (roast guinea pig)

7. Papa chupi

   Papa chupi (potato soup)

8. Mut'i

   Mut'i (boiled maize kernels, "mote")

9. Hamk'a

   Hamk'a (toasted maize, "cancha")

10. Chuqllu

    Chuqllu (fresh corn on the cob, "choclo")

11. Humint'a

    Humint'a (steamed corn dough in husks, "humita")

12. Lawa

    Lawa (thick flour-based gruel)

13. Sankhu

    Sankhu (dough of grain flour and water)

14. Llaqwa

    Llaqwa (hot sauce of rocoto and tomato, "llajwa")

15. Ruqutu

    Ruqutu (rocoto, a very hot thick-walled chilli)

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