Picarones are Lima's ring-shaped fritters of sweet potato (camote) and squash (zapallo) dough, deep-fried in vegetable oil and served warm with chancaca (raw cane syrup); in Peru we have verified places to eat it in Lima. Start with where to eat Picarones in Lima.
Picarones · Lima
Picarones are Lima's ring-shaped fritters of sweet potato (camote) and squash (zapallo) dough, deep-fried in vegetable oil and served warm with chancaca (raw cane syrup).
Picarones descend from Spanish-colonial bunuelos adapted in Lima with native sweet potato and Andean squash, recorded as far back as the 1600s. They were the dessert of the African and indigenous Andean communities of viceregal Lima; the Sunday-evening picarones cart is a Lima tradition unbroken since.
Where to eat in Lima:
- Picarones Mary
- Anticucheria El Tio Mario
- El Bolivariano
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