5 MUST Try Bolivian Street Foods 🇧🇴

beef

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: pork

Chicken is leaner and often less expensive than beef.

cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: ricotta

Nutritional yeast provides a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

pork

🥗Healthier: turkey

💰Cheaper: chicken

Turkey is leaner and can be more affordable than pork.

sauce

🥗Healthier: yogurt-based sauce

💰Cheaper: homemade sauce

Yogurt-based sauces are lighter and can be made at home easily.

Visit La Paz and introduce Bolivian street food.

Try Pakumuto, which includes chicken, beef, and onions, served with rice and milk.

Describe the taste of Pakumuto as savory with a hint of milk, not sweet.

Discuss the use of beef and mention llama as another meat option.

Explain that the meat is marinated in mayonnaise.

Try Yucca, comparing it to a potato, and recommend it highly.

Introduce Mokochinchi, a drink made from dried peach boiled with cinnamon.

Describe the taste of Mokochinchi as sweet with a stronger cinnamon flavor than peach.

Pass by the Witches market and explain the significance of baby llamas.

Introduce Sitpancho, which consists of smashed beef that is breaded and fried, served with potatoes and plantains.

Describe the preparation of Sitpancho, including frying in sunflower oil and adding an egg on top.

Discuss the texture of Sitpancho, noting it was a bit mushy due to not being fried in hot enough oil.

Conclude with a visit to Lanza market to try massive empanadas stuffed with cheese and powdered sugar.

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