Locro de Zapallo
Creamy Cooked Squach

INGREDIENTS:

3 pounds cooked squach
3 cups of fresh cut corn
½ cup olive oil
1 onion (diced)
1 teaspoon ground garlic
2 cups feta cheese (crumble)
½ cup evaporated milk
2 teaspoon of dry shrimps
 

PREPARATION:
 

In a pot with olive oil, prepare a seasoning with onion, garlic and dry shrimps. When ready, lower the heat and add cooked squach, 1 cup of feta cheese and corn. Keep stirring for 5 minutes. Don’t let it burn. If it is neccesary, add evapotated milk.

Serve garnished with feta cheese.

Serve it with rice.

Lomo saltado
Sirloin sautéed with onions, tomatoes and fresh coriander;

tossed with golden french fried potatoes

INGREDIENTS:

2 pounds sirloin beef
fried potatoes
1 onion (chopped)
2 onions (big pieces - 2" by ½ “app.).
3 peeled tomatoes, seedless (diced)
Olive oil
3 garlic cloves (chopped)
1 bay leaf
4 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon fresh coriander (leaves)
1 yellow hot pepper, in slices
 

PREPARATION:
 

Cut meat in slices of 3" x ½” app. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Fry in olive oil and remove.

In the same oil, fry chopped onion and garlic. When ready, add large pieces of onion, bay leaf and tomato and vinegar. Cook for 3 minutes. Add coriander, and yellow hot pepper, cook for two more minutes. Serve hot.

Accompany it with french fries and white rice.

Ocopa Arequipeña

Cream sauce over boiled potatoes

INGREDIENTS:

½ lb. feta cheese

¼ lb. cooked shrimp tails

1 garlic (chopped)

6 regular size potatoes (round)

3 oz

3 oz huacatay herb

2 oz soda crackers

½ olive oil

2 yellow hot peppers (deveined with no seed). If you like hot food add more.
3 eggs (hard boiled)

6 lettuce leaves

6 olives

Salt to taste

White pepper to taste.

Milk (Evaporated)

PREPARATION:
 

Slen togeter until cream, the feta cheese, cooked shrimp tails, huacatay herb, soda crackers, yellow hot peppers, olive oil. Salt and pepper to taste. Add the Milk, just to be sure the cream is not too thick.

If the mixture is soft, add little bit of soda crackers, (crumbed). If it is so thick, add milk.
 

Boil the potatoes. Sliced ½" tick.