Bolivian Dishes

Specialised

SALTEÑA — a juicy baked pastry of meat, potato, peas and a gelatin-set broth that liquefies in the oven, eaten mid-morning and nowhere near a lunch table; ⚠ the name suggests Salta in Argentina and the usual account credits an Argentine exile in Potosí, which is a story rather than a document. CHAIRO, the Altiplano soup of chuño, meat and vegetables; FRICASÉ PACEÑO, pork with hominy and yellow ají; SAJTA de pollo; SOPA DE MANÍ, the peanut soup, with chips in it; SILPANCHO and PIQUE MACHO from Cochabamba; anticuchos; and API, the hot purple-maize drink taken with buñuelos at breakfast.