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Majao - rice with eggs, beef, and fried platano(banana).

Silpancho - meat with rice and potatoes

Pacumutu - beef, breadcrumbs and spices mashed into a meatloaf/pancake type thing and fried, served with yajua (a hot tomato salsa), egg, rice, and fried potatoes. Some areas of Bolivia serve a thin steak breaded and fried instead of the whole meatloaf mix.

Salteñas - usually a breakfast food, it's a fairly large hot-pocket, pasty-type baked turnover filled with any combination of meat and rice or potatoes.

Humitas - dampened, semi-sweet corn meal wrapped in a corn husk or banana leaf and then boiled or steamed. Fairly common food in the region, but Bolivians tend to like theirs sweet while some of their neighbors add onion, tomato or pepper. Chicharrón - This is fairly typical in the US, too, but usually under the name pork skins. It's just pig skin, leftover bits of meat and gristle that were otherwise worthless, tossed together and deep fried. Usually served with...

Chuño - to quote from Wikipedia Chuño ['chu njo] is a freeze-dried potato product traditionally made by Quechua and Aymara communities of Peru and Bolivia, and is known in various countries of South America, including Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. It is a five-day process, obtained by exposing a frost-resistant variety of potatoes to the very low night temperatures of the Andean Altiplano, freezing them, and subsequently exposing them to the intense sunlight of the day (this being the traditional process). The word comes from Quechua ch'uñu, meaning frozen potato (wrinkled in the dialects of the Junín Region).

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