Why Peru is an excellent gastronomic destination?

One of the main reasons why many people decide to travel to Peru is its varied and healthy cuisine, which often mixes sea flavors with Andean ingredients, soft textures with strong aromas and, always, many bright colors.

Any main dish you order from 12 noon, accompany it with a pisco and you will begin to feel an incomparable pleasure. Here we recommend some of the most traditional:

Many of the tourist tours of this country begin on the northern beaches, in destinations like Trujillo that offer adventure and history in the same place, here you will be able to start tasting the different versions of Peruvian ceviche that are prepared throughout the country, although being on the coast, here we guarantee that you will try one of the best.

In addition, this city is characterized by making soft and delicate alfajores, so at once take a few boxes for the road and, if you have left over, to take home as a souvenir.

Surely later you will go down to Lima, because you cannot go through Peru without visiting its vibrant and very entertaining capital. Here you must spend at least four days to visit museums, beaches, cozy neighborhoods like the Center or Barranco, and eat something new every day.

As you already tried the fish ceviche, try other seafood in the same preparation, the best ají de gallina (according to bad tongues) and do not miss the famous Lima cause, perhaps for a day of moderate hunger and heat.

What to visit now? What everyone visits when they come to Peru: the Sacred Valley with its impressive natural, archaeological and cultural attractions.

Maybe trying guinea pig is not an exciting idea for many, but here are other delights that will delight you such as the purple mazamorra with rice pudding (a very traditional dessert), the humitas of corn or the olluquito with charqui, prepared with a tuber called olluco and dried meat of llama or alpaca accompany it with a glass of chicha morada and you will see how your body thanks you.

Further south in Arequipa and Colca Canyon, the destinations visited by those who want to see the mythical flight of the condors, things get spicy with the stuffed rocoto.

This red pepper, sweet in flavor and the size of an apple, is filled with a sofrito of ground meat, onion, olives, grated fresh cheese and hard-boiled egg, and is accompanied by a potato omelette. It is so desired that rocoto is even exported to various countries of the world for those palates in search of exotic flavors.

And finally, some recommendations that you can try in almost any Peruvian destination and thus have a fairly wide panorama: the potato to huancaína (Papa a la Huancaina), which is characterized by carrying a sauce of yellow pepper and other delicacies; the tenderloin sautéed with vegetables, with an exquisite Asian touch; the picarones, a kind of sweet fritters made with flour and pieces of pumpkin, and the chocotejas, some filled chocolates that once you try them ... will haunt you forever.

Enjoy your meal!