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Juane - One of The Most Popular Amazonian Food From Peru

Juane is a traditional Peruvian dish from the Amazon jungle that is commonly eaten on June 24th to celebrate San Juan feast. It consists of rice, meat, boiled egg, black olives, and spices wrapped in bijao leaves and boiled in clay pots. El Bijao is a recommended restaurant in Lima to try Juane, run by Chef Sulma Penaherrera who has been serving Amazonian dishes for over 20 years. On Thursdays, El Bijao serves Juane de Pollo, which is a version of Juane made with chicken served with plantains and a salsa sauce of onion and cocona fruit.

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Juane - One of The Most Popular Amazonian Food From Peru

Juane is a traditional Peruvian dish from the Amazon jungle that is commonly eaten on June 24th to celebrate San Juan feast. It consists of rice, meat, boiled egg, black olives, and spices wrapped in bijao leaves and boiled in clay pots. El Bijao is a recommended restaurant in Lima to try Juane, run by Chef Sulma Penaherrera who has been serving Amazonian dishes for over 20 years. On Thursdays, El Bijao serves Juane de Pollo, which is a version of Juane made with chicken served with plantains and a salsa sauce of onion and cocona fruit.

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Juane – One of the most popular Amazonian Food from

Peru
Juane is one of the most traditional and popular dishes from the Peruvian jungle.
On June 24th, the Peruvian Amazon jungle celebrates San Juan feast or St. John
the Baptist’s day, and eat Juane to celebrate this Catholic festival.
The Juane consists of a bowl of rice filled with meat, boiled egg, black olives, and
spices. All the ingredients are wrapped up in bijao leaves (which look like banana
leaves) and are plants from the jungle. It is then boiled as is in clay pots and served
in its leaves.

Where to try Juane in Lima


We went to a place called El Bijao that was recommended to us by our gastronomy
critic and friend Cecilia Portella. It is a typicalhuarique, which is family restaurant
where traditional home-cooked meal are served as we described it in our ceviche
post. The Chef and owner, Sulma Penaherrera, has been serving dishes from the
Amazon (Selva) for about 23 years.

Juane de Pollo
El Bijao proposes a different menu everyday. We went on a Thursday when Juane
de Pollo was on the menu. It is a Juane made with chicken meat. It was served with
plantains and salsa con cocona, a salsa sauce made of onion and cocona (a yellow
fruit from the jungle). It is a very well presented dish served in the bijao leaf.

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