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Chalona is a kind of cured meat. Originally made from alpaca, lamb is often used these days. It is salted and dried in the sun and out at night when it is much colder for as long as a month.

Chairo is a kind of soup made from a traditional type of freeze-dried potato, chillies, sweet potatoes, meat and chalona.

Ocopa is boiled and sliced potatoes covered in a chilli sauce, garnished with cheese, eggs, lettuce and olices. A herb used in the chilli sauce, tagetes minuta, gives it a distinctive green hue.

Copus inolves fried bananas, sweet potatoes and chicken, turkey goat and mutton.

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Filed under: Cuisine on May 26th, 2011