Amazonian cuisine

Amazonian cuisine includes the foods and preparation methods of various peoples in the Amazon jungle of South America, including the dishes they have popularized among neighbors.

Maniçoba is an Amazonian dish from Brazil made with pieces of meat, sausage, manioc, and chicória leaves. Amazonian cuisine in includes many freshwater fish such as peixe nobre (noble fish), the pirarucu (the world's largest freshwater fish), and tambaqui. Smaller fishes such as surubim, curimatã, jaraqui, acari and tucunaré are also eaten, often grilled or sometimes fried. Served in a tomato sauce the dishes are known as escabeche, they can also be prepared in coconut milk or stewed in tucupi (a sauce made with fermented manioc juices). Tacacá is a shrimp soup and vatapá is a bahian seafood dish.

Staples of Amazonian cuisine include manioc, a starchy root vegetable, as well as fruit. Juices and ice creams are made from them, including acerola, graviola, fruta de conde (also referred to as ata in Spanish and as sugar-apple in English), and cupuaçu. Açai is gaining widespread notoriety. There are also juices from palm trees such as taperebá, buriti and bacuri.Brazil nut have gained widespread popularity. Guarana is now widely consumed as an ingredient of popular energy drinks.

Juane is one of the most popular dishes from the Peruvian jungle. It is widely consumed during the Catholic Feast of San Juan (St. John), held on 24 June each year. The dish was named in honor of San Juan Bautista. The dish could have a pre-Columbian origin. With the arrival of the Spanish, missionaries popularized the Biblical story of Salome, John and Herodias. Some believe the dish's name comes from the reference to the head of San Juan.

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