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Picarones

Spiced pumpkin and sweet potato doughnuts or fritters, topped with chancaca (raw sugarcane syrup)

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Picarones Recipe - Delicious Peruvian Dessert Food | Eat Peru

Here is a traditional Picarones recipe that's simple to make. The resulting Picarones will tempt you to devour them all. A tasty dessert/breakfast recipe...

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Picarones: Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Doughnut Recipe

These light and crispy doughnut-like fried treats are served for dessert in Peru and Chile. Picarones are good when drenched in spiced syrup...

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Picarones Recipe - Great British Chefs

These tasty Peruvian sweet potato fritters go down a treat with the accompanying ricotta cheese and chancaca syrup...

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Picarones Recipe | PERU DELIGHTS

Picarones, Peruvian doughnuts, bunuelos, or beignets, are one of a kind, made of local squash called macre and sweet potatoes...

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Picarones - LimaEasy

Picarones are one of these Peruvian goodies if tried once there’s no way back. The deep fried picarones drizzled with a sweet and flavorful syrup are not only on the list of Peruvian “must eats”, but also absolutely delicious and addicting...

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Picarones - LimaEasy

Picarones are one of these Peruvian goodies if tried once there’s no way back. The deep fried picarones drizzled with a sweet and flavorful syrup are not only on the list of Peruvian “must eats”, but also absolutely delicious and addicting...

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Picarones - Peruvian doughnuts, bunuelos, or beignets, are one of a kind | PERU DELIGHTS

Picarones may look like buñuelos or beignets, but they are one of a kind...

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Chilean Picarones (Pumpkin Donuts) • Curious Cuisiniere

Chilean picarones (slightly different than Peruvian picarones) are soft, squash or pumpkin donuts that are soaked in an orange-infused panela syrup...

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Picarones recipe from Sweet Life

PIcarones are a popular street food sold in Peru is crisp from the outside and soft, doughy, airy from the inside...

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