Cuchuco is a soup, part of Native American cuisine of South America associated with the Muisca people, made with corn, barley or wheat and mashed beans, popular in Colombian cuisine, especially Altiplano of the Boyacá and Cundinamarca Departments of Colombia.Ocampo López, Javier. Folclor, costumbres y tradiciones colombianas. Plaza y Janes Editores Colombia s.a., 2006., 9789581403721 It is a staple food in Colombia, where it is often made with peas, potatoes, wheat and beans.
An inexpensive food, it is usually eaten with pork, peas, carrot, potatoes, garlic, onion and cilantro. It is popular in Andean region and the plateau cundiboyacense.
Etymology The word's origin is indigenous from the Chibcha language of the Muisca people.Malaret, Augusto. Diccionario de americanismos Volume 61 de Biblioteca Emecé de obras universales: Referencia y varios. Editor Emecé Editores, 1946Rozo Gauta, José. Alimentación y medicina entre los muiscas. Estudios culturales CIAM. Ediciones Naidí, 1998. , 9789589630037 Pedro José Ramírez Sendoya proposes that the word's provenenace is from one of various words used in regional native languages.
See also Arepa Sancocho Tamales
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