The typical dishes that we recommend are:

1: Llapingacho

2: Yahuarlocro

3: Potato Locro

4: Crazy guinea pig

5: Shrimp ceviche.

6: Roast guinea pig.

7: Barbecue

8: Balls of green

9: Onions.

10: Fish encocado

11: Fish Maito

 

 

 

1: Llapingacho

Signature Ingredients

In this food, you will find ingredients such as:

 

• Fried tortillas
• Sausage.
• Salad.
• Avocado.
• Egg.
• Peanut sauce
• Fried egg.

Price

The price of the food in typical restaurants is $2.5

 

2: Yahuarlocro

Signature Ingredients

The next food that you can find is the yahuarlocro, in which you can taste a soup made of:

• Potatoes
• Roasted peanuts.
• Avocado
• lamb's lettuce
• sheep's blood
• Lemons.

Price

The price of this typical dish is around $2.5.

 

3: Potato Locro

Signature Ingredients

An exquisite dish and as its name says, it has among other things:

• Potatoes.
• Quesillo.
• Tablespoons of coriander.
• Salt.
• White onion.

Price

It depends on the restaurant, but the price is: $3.50.

 

4: Crazy guinea pig

Signature Ingredients

This typical dish is well known in the Ecuadorian Sierra, as you can see, it is the first on the list to carry the famous Cuy. Its ingredients are:

 

• guinea pig
• White onion.
• Potatoes.
• Garlic.
• Cumin.

Price

Its standard price is dollars.

 

5: Shrimp ceviche.

Ingredients

Let's go with the next most common typical dish on the coast of Ecuador, this is ceviche, which can be fish, octopus, among many others, but the most typical is shrimp ceviche. In addition to the shrimp, it has:

 

• Onions.
• Tomatoes
• Green or red pepper.
• Lemons.
• Juice of one orange.
• Ketchup.
• Cilantro

Price

With $8.2 you can taste this great typical dish.

 

6: Roast guinea pig.

Ingredients

Although it is not the first typical dish that guinea pig carries on this list, this dish is more usual than the previous one.

Signature Ingredients

• Potatoes.
• Guinea pig
• Salad.
• Pig butter.
• Lettuce leaves.

Price

With 20 dollars you can taste the whole roasted guinea pig, or with $5 you can taste a guinea pig prey.

 

7: Barbecue

Now, a very varied dish in its ingredients, we recommend that this dish be your food source at lunch, since being very varied it has many foods that will give you energy for the rest of your day.

 

Signature Ingredients:

• Avocado.
• Rice.
• Potatoes.
• Salad.
• Egg.
• Meat steak.

Price

The price for this varied plate of food is: $3.00

 

8: Balls of green

We reached position number 8 with the “bolón de verde”, one of the best known and acclaimed dishes in Ecuador, ideal for breakfast or dinner, especially on the Ecuadorian Coast.

 

Signature Ingredients:

• Green banana.
• Pork rind.
• White or fresh cheese.

Price

A plate of bolon de verde will cost you in the range of $1 to $3.

 

9: Encocado fish

If this is the first time you've heard of it, its name may seem strange to you, but don't worry that when you try it, this typical dish will leave you in love. Since a good encocado will awaken thousands of sensations on your palate.

 

Signature Ingredients:

• Sea bass fillets.
• Lemons.
• Oranges.
• Blended fresh coconut.
• Cilantro.
• Grated coconut.

Price

$6.65 is the price you will have to spend to taste it.

 

10: Fish Maito

We are about to finish, and this popular and emblematic typical dish of the Amazon could not be missing. Without a doubt, this is a different way of eating fish. Just imagine, you are eating straight from a leaf.

 

Signature Ingredients

• Chontaduro.
• Palmetto.
• bijao leaves
• Strips of toquilla straw fibers.

Price

To eat a good maito we recommend you have around $5.

 

11: Onions.

To close this list of typical Ecuadorian dishes, we close with the favorite of many, and it is not for less, this dish, in addition to being delicious, will help you with post-drunk ailments, reason enough for it to be very loved by the Ecuadorian inhabitants.

 

Signature Ingredients:

• Tuna.
• Yucca.
• Onion.

Price:

Normally, its price is between $1.5 and $2.5

If you liked our list of typical dishes that we prepared for you, but if the fish maito was the typical dish that most caught your attention. You should definitely join us on our Tours to the Ecuadorian jungle.