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Food, eating habits and cusine of Bolivia

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The usual breakfast in Bolivia are salteñas (vegetable and meat and pasties), cuñape (a small roll with cheese on top and the bread is prepared in cassava flour), tucumana (similar to a salteña but fried), and empanada (like a salteña and normally filled with cheese and meat). Other Bolivians also begin the day with some mixture of fruits such as licuado (blended milk or water, sugar and fruits), ensalada de frutas (sliced fruits with yogurt with nuts and honey on top), and vitaminico (fruits, sugar, milk and a shot of beer).

Some of the main meals that are usually served in the country include picante de pollo (made of fried potatoes, deep-fried chicken and hot-pepper salad), lechon al horno (consists of a roasted pig and served with fried plantains and sweet potatoes), and lomo montado (a fried tenderloin steak served with rice, fried plantains and eggs). The delicious snacks and street food in Bolivia include anticucho (cattle’s heart and served with spicy corn sauce and potatoes), choripan (spicy sausage sandwich), humitas (made from onion, pureed corn, achiote oil and tortillas filled with potatoes), and salchipapa (sliced fried sausage with potatoes).

Some of the typical drinks in the country are api (tea with corn, cinnamon, cloves and lemon), chicha (made from fruits or manioc root), chuflay (prepared with jigger of singani, Sprite or 7-Up), singani (national liquor in Bolivia and made of the muscatel grape), Mate de coca (coca leaf tea), El Inca (sweet low-alcohol beer), yungueño (prepared with jigger of singani, orange juice and sugar or syrup), wine, fruit shake and orange cocktails.