PERUVIAN FOOD AND NATURAL PRODUCTS

Here we want to offer you a small guide of tipical products and food of Peru. We also want to show the world, some natural products who grow in Peruvian soil, wich in many cases, are use to cure some medical problems.

The Potato

Native of the Peruvians Andes, the potato was grown for the antique inhabitants of Perú. Exist chroniclers's references that date of the XVIcentury. South of Lima, in neighborhoods of Chilca, vestiges was founded with more than 8,000 years. This plant was taken to España Toward 1550 and from there it expanded to the rest of Europe.

Peru is the country with more potatoes diversity in the world, to the counting on 8 native species domesticated and 2,301 of the 4,000 varieties that exist in Latinoamérica. Besides our country possesses, 91 of the 200 sorts that grow in the wild in approximately all our continent ( generally they are not groceries ).

The potato's International Center ( CIP ) is the institution for potato's scientific conservation , and at the same time it works with another tubers and some roots. It's work initiated in 1971 and it has as objectives to reduce poverty, growing larger her environmental sustenance and helping to guarantee the alimentary certainty in the more poor zones and dropouts.

The domesticated sort of potato more important worldwide is the Solanum tuberosum, it was introduced to Europa for the Spaniards over 450 years and today it has become me the more cultivated and consumed all over the world.

One of the typical recipes in the Peru on the basis of Potato, is The Peruvian causa, recipe that we share with you.

Peruvian Causa

Ingredients:
( 4 persons)

• A potato kilo ( yellow if possible ) to parboil
• Two lemons
• Two middling onions cut in little squares
• tuna fish's two cans in water ( with oil no, because he has a lot of grease )
• Two parsley little twigs
• Yellow red pepper sunflower crushed or cut in little pieces
• Mayonnaise
• olive oil ( the more healthy )
• satl and pepper

Preparation:
Parboiling the potatoes in plenty of water. Crushing the potatoes to make a soft paste. Use the olive-oil in order that the potatoes paste be made soft, add some pepper and salt to give. In another container, combine the rest of ingredients's . Now, in a Pyrex put some of the potatoes paste ( to make a cape ) next another cape of the tuna fish with the rest of the ingredients ... Repeat this process. Decorating with parsley and the yellow red pepper. Serving cold.