Lambayeque Cuisine
The Best of Lambayeque Peru Cuisine
Some of the most delicious typical dishes in the department are:
- Cebiche: raw fish filet cut into pieces and marinated in lemon juice, onions, and aji limo.
- Tortilla de raya: egg tortilla made with dehydrated and re-hydrated ray meat.
- Chinguirito: cebiche using the dry meat of the banded guitar fish.
- Seco de cabrito con frijoles: stew made of tender baby goat meat marinated in chicha de jora (a fermented corn liquor whose origin dates back to the time before the Incas) and served with beans seasoned with fried onions and garlic.
- Arroz con pato a la Chiclayana: tender duck meat cooked in black beer and cilantro.
- Chirimpico: stew made from the innards of the baby goat, covered with onions, garlic, hot peppers, cilantro and squash, mixed with grains of tender corn.
- King Kong: alfajor (cookie) filled with manjarblanco (sweetened condensed milk cooked down), candied pineapple, and peanuts.
- Filled dates.
- Compacted candied quince fruit.
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