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Lomo Saltado

LOH-moh sahl-TAH-doh
Also Known As Lomito Saltado

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A Peruvian stir-fry of marinated beef strips, red onion, tomato and french fries, seasoned with soy sauce. The dish is a signature of chifa, the Cantonese-Peruvian culinary fusion born of Chinese indentured labor migration to Peru beginning in the 1850s, which married wok stir-frying technique to Peruvian ingredients like beef and potato.

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Origin Period, From (Year)
from 1903 1
Sourced to the subject's own accountMarks the earliest documented recipe, in the Peruvian cookbook Nuevo Manual de Cocina a la Criolla, evidencing the dish's assimilation of Cantonese stir-fry technique into Peruvian criollo cooking; large-scale Chinese immigration to Peru began between 1849 and 1874.
Origin RegionSourced to the subject's own account
Peru (chifa, Chinese-Peruvian cuisine) 1
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Chinese Cuisine, Cuisines

Lomo saltado is a signature chifa dish, the Cantonese-Peruvian culinary fusion born of Chinese indentured labor migration to Peru from the 1850s, marrying wok stir-frying technique to Peruvian ingredients.

Source The Oxford Companion to FoodAlan Davidson

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Source The Oxford Companion to FoodAlan Davidson

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Potato, Ingredients
Source The Oxford Companion to FoodAlan Davidson
Red Onion, Ingredients
Source The Oxford Companion to FoodAlan Davidson
Soybean, Ingredients

Represents the soy sauce seasoning central to the dish; soy sauce itself has no live ingredient entity yet.

Source The Oxford Companion to FoodAlan Davidson
Tomato, Ingredients
Source The Oxford Companion to FoodAlan Davidson
Sources
1. Lomo Saltado (Wikipedia)
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1. Lomo Saltado (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHistoryView the Source
The Oxford Companion to Food
Alan Davidson, Oxford University Press, 2014

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