Purtumute is a typical dish of the
Amazonas Region in
Peru
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The dish is prepared by stewing several types of
beans and corn, seasoned made with
coriander.
A variant is chipasmute, prepared not with stewed corn grains but with
sweetcorn grains, mixed with
green beans
Green beans are young, unripe fruits of various cultivars of the common bean (''Phaseolus vulgaris''), although immature or young pods of the runner bean (''Phaseolus coccineus''), yardlong bean ( ''Vigna unguiculata'' subsp. ''sesquipedalis' ...
and seasoned with
coriander and sometimes
peanut
The peanut (''Arachis hypogaea''), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, important to both small and ...
s. This dish can be accompanied with ground
pepper
Pepper or peppers may refer to:
Food and spice
* Piperaceae or the pepper family, a large family of flowering plant
** Black pepper
* ''Capsicum'' or pepper, a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae
** Bell pepper
** Chili ...
mixed with
cheese.
Peru-info.net Amazonas Gastronomia
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References
Peruvian cuisine
Culture of Amazonas Region
Legume dishes
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