Fricasé

Fricase is a spicy Bolivian-style pork soup or stew served with potatoes and maiz, hominy. The aji pepper is sometimes used as an ingredient  and bread crumbs are sometimes used to thicken the soup.

It shares some of the same flavors as a Mexican red chile pork pozole.

Fricase  is both kind of stew and a soup, sSlow cooked chunks of pork, deep, rich and spicy in flavour. It’s made even more nourishing by adding a good scoop of hominy (white maize) and a rather unique ingredient known as chuño.

Chuño are basically dried whole potatoes – developed by Andeans so that they could be eaten when out of season, if the crops were poor or there were some kind of shortages  – especially in remote parts of Bolivia, such as the Altiplano. They’re available at just about any local market in Bolivia, with many different varieties, as well.