DISH RESEARCH · Soup
Chairo Paceno
Lamb and preserved-meat soup with chuño, wheat, potatoes and vegetables.
About Chairo Paceno
Recetas de Bolivia presents this chairo as a traditional soup of La Paz. Its rendition combines lamb loin and chalona with chuño, hulled wheat, potatoes and a mixture of vegetables.
Onion, tomato, red chilli, cumin and oregano season the broth. Peas, green fava beans and carrot add vegetable flavour, while chopped hierba buena provides the distinctive finishing aroma described by the publisher.
The soup is served hot in a deep plate with pieces of lamb and chalona. Finely cut potatoes and crushed chuño thicken the substantial mixture, including the settled chuño residue retained in the preparation.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Chairo Paceno
Recetas de Bolivia's traditional La Paz chairo with lamb and chalona.
- Lamb loinProtein
- ChalonaProteinIngredient page not linked
- PeasBase
- Green fava beansBase
- Uncooked hulled wheat (trigo mote)Base
- CarrotBase
- PotatoesBase
- ChuñoBase
- OnionAromatic
- TomatoBase
- SaltSeasoning
- WaterLiquid
- Ají coloradoSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- OilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- CuminSeasoning
- Crumbled oreganoAromatic
- Hierba buenaGarnish
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Lamb loin: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual61 nudos de lomo de cordero, precise bone/cut geometry unprovided.
- Chalona: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual62 preserved meat named, animal/cure full formula not defined in actual primary; no forced lamb/alpaca species.
- Peas: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green fava beans: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual64 habas verdes, broader fava candidate.
- Uncooked hulled wheat (trigo mote): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual65 expressly trigo, Wheat positive; not corn hominy despite protected scalar.
- Carrot: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Potatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Chuño: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual68/81 crushed washed chuño with its own settled allpi residue, exact white/black type unprovided, no separate added flour ingredient invented.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Tomato: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit72 stock, chuño washing81 and conditional additional broth water82, allocations consolidated.
- Ají colorado: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual73 named red ají, precise species/product/form unprovided; cooked in oil79, no forced paste/powder.
- Oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual74/79, botanical source unprovided.
- Cumin: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Crumbled oregano: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual76 desmenuzado, broader oregano mapping, dried form not expressly stated.
- Hierba buena: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual77/84 named culinary mint, broader mint link; botanical species unprovided, no forced spearmint.
Origins & food traditions
Cuisines & regions
- Paceña Cuisine
- Bolivian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Aymara cuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.