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Ecuadorian Cuisine

↳ from Quito, Ecuador

Cuisine across Andes, coast and Amazon: locro de papa, ceviche with popcorn, encebollado, hornado and cuy. Ecuador is the top exporter of bananas.

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Specialties

History

The Inca, then Spanish, shaped highland cooking. The coast has seafood and plantain. Ecuador grows fine-flavour 'Nacional' cacao.

Ingredients

  • Potato
  • Corn
  • Plantain
  • Shrimp
  • Fish
  • Cheese
  • Avocado
  • Cacao

How it's made

  1. Make potato and cheese soup (locro)
  2. Marinate shrimp in citrus for ceviche
  3. Roast pork (hornado)
  4. Serve with aji
to drink

What Ecuador drinks

Pilsener beer, canelazo, chicha, Ecuadorian cacao drink

Ratings & notes

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