Cuenca Food & Cooking Tour

Sample itinerary

• Tour Days
• 1

  Starters

  · Locro de papas con queso y aguacate (Thick potato soup served with cheese and avocado) · Mote casado (A traditional corn and bean soup) · Tamal de papa (Potato dough filled with meats or vegetables and steamed in a leaf wrap) · Sopa de melloco (Ulluco soup – Ulluco is a root vegetable from Andean South America)

• 2

  Main Courses

  · Arroz de quinua con suprema de pollo en salsa de pepa de sambo y choclo frito (Quinoa served with chicken, pumpkin seed sauce and fried corn) · Seco de chivo con arroz dorado maduro frito (Goat stew served with golden rice and fried plantain) · Arroz de cebada y arveja, cecina de carne de cerdo en salsa de tomate de árbol (Barley rice and peas, served with pork in tree tomato sauce) · Fritada, mote choclo con habas y llapingachos (Traditional fried pork served with corn, potato cakes and fava beans)

• 3

  Desserts

  Desserts · Tomate de árbol en almíbar (Tree tomato in honey sauce) · Miel con queso (Cheese in honey) · Dulce de sambo (Squash dessert) · Muchines / buñuelos con miel (Fried dough balls with honey) · Arroz / quinua con leche (Rice or quinoa pudding)

• 4

  Vegetarian Menu

  Choose one option for each course: Starter: · Ceviche Andino (with chochos or palmitos) · Tamal de Zanahoria (Carrot tamale) · Aguacate relleno (Stuffed avocado) · Sopa de Sambo (Squash soup) Main Course: · Mojito de yuca con hamburguesa de soya (Soya burger with yucca mojito) · Moro de a arroz con estofado de soya (Soya stew with rice) · Ensalada de vegetales con hamburguesa de lenteja (Vegetable salad with lentil burger) · Cazuela de verde con carne de soya o pescado (Plantain stew with soya or fish) Dessert: · Sambo o limeño cocido (Cooked squash or limeño) · Muchines / buñuelos con miel (Fried dough balls with honey) · Arroz / quinua con leche (Rice or quinoa pudding) · Miel con queso (Cheese in honey)