Puerto Maldonado Gastronomy

The typical dishes include:

Patasca or caldo de mondongo (tripe soup with maize, mint and giblets).

Sarapatera (soup based on turtle, banana and fariña or cassava meal, cooked in the turtle's shell).

Inchicapi (chicken soup with peanuts, cilantro and cassave)

Timbuche (soup based on fish, green banana and cilantro).

Asado de venado (roasted deer) served with rice and green banana.

Tacacho con cecina (coal cooked or fried crushed banana mixed with lard and cured meat).

Asado de picuro (roasted picuro, an Amazonian rodent famous for its delicious meat)

Suri frito (fried suri) served with boiled banana,

Caldo de carachama (thick soup based on a fish named carachama, bananas and cilantro).

The traditional drinks include:

Masato (drink based on crushed cooked cassave fermented with sweet potato or sugar).

Refresco de aguajina (delicious aguaje drink).

Refresco de pihuayo.

Chapo (drink prepared with banana and sugar, served cold).