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NOVOANDINA CUISINE

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Peru is famous throughout South America for its food. As a major fishing nation, fish is abundant, and prepared with imagination.

The Peruvian food is considered one of the most delicious and diverse of the world. The Novoandina cuisine arises like a proposal that declares the revolution of the table for the astonishment of palates. It is a culinary style that conciliates the modern technologies of elaboration and presentation of the high cuisine with the raw material (herbs, spices, meats, vegetables and fruits) of the three regions of Peru. Rediscover native products of the country that were not including in Criollas recipes, and rescue them with the purpose of being known all over the world.

La gran olla Huacachina is the founding dish of the novoandina cuisine, created by Bernardo Roca Rey in 1986 as an answer to the challenge expounded in the Huacachina lake by a foreign group of chefs whose dishes had been judged by Roca Rey in the festival organized by the Gastronomical Association of Peru (AGAPE). The pioneer of the novoandina cuisine went to the market of the near city of Ica, and he invented this meal with the ingredients that could find.

In a nutshell this type of food is a new culinary style created in Peru by the interest of gourmets to rescue and revalue the native ingredients.

Quinotto is the national version of the typical Italian Risotto. It tastes good with chicken, prawn or shellfish. Some Andean products are tarwi, ch’uño, quinua, kiwicha, moraya, cochayuyu, maca, coca, uchu, olluco, oca, etc..

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Achira, arracacha, quinua

Gastón Acurio has proposed plates like trucha marinada con blinis de achira, lomo de atún con crema de arracacha and quinua rosada. Achira is a tubercle that comes from the amazonian forest. It was cultivated and used by preIncas cultures like Chavín, Nasca and Paracas.

Maca

Gastronomical journalist Hirka Roca Rey, in her restaurant called Pantagruel (that was the first in its kind) was who initiated the internationalization of this cuisine. She created plates like chicharrones en salsa de maca.

Yacón, red pepper

Rafael Piqueras presents the pulpo a la parrilla con vinagreta de yacón and cebiche con espuma de ají amarillo, plates that he presented in Spain, in the gastronomical fair of Madrid.

Coca, mashua

Cucho La Rosa is the intellectual author of the coca sour and the bread of coca and mashua