Pachamanca, the dish cooked inside the earth

The very ground in Peru brings forth the most exquisite flavors to delight all taste buds. With its ancestral cuisine, the imperial city of Cusco offers visitors the chance to try the Pachamanca; a culinary technique that involves cooking ingredients with firewood and hot stones in a hole in the ground. Meat, potatoes and any other ingredients people fancy are covered with banana leaves to cook.

The unique flavor of this traditional Peruvian dish, which means "earthen pot" in the native language, is achieved by first seasoning and marinating the meat with flavorful ingredients, and then cooking it at a high temperature. It also comes with the perfect sides of sweet potatoes, cassava, cheese, fava beans and chicha corn beer. After 45 minutes, you can dig into this dish, whose exquisite flavor continues to win admiration around the globe.