Cuchuco

Cuchuco of wheat from Sogamoso, Colombia

Cuchuco is a soup made with corn, barley or wheat and mashed beans to make Colombian cuisine soup, especially altiplano of the Boyacá and Cundinamarca Departments of Colombia.[1]

Etymology

The word's origin is indigenous from the Chibcha language of the Muisca people.[2][3] Pedro José Ramírez Sendoya proposes that the word's provenenace is from one of various words used in regional native languages.[4]

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.

References

  1. Ocampo López, Javier. Folclor, costumbres y tradiciones colombianas. Plaza y Janes Editores Colombia s.a., 2006.ISBN 958-14-0372-8, 9789581403721
  2. Malaret, Augusto. Diccionario de americanismos Volume 61 de Biblioteca Emecé de obras universales: Referencia y varios. Editor Emecé Editores, 1946
  3. Rozo Gauta, José. Alimentación y medicina entre los muiscas. Estudios culturales CIAM. Ediciones Naidí, 1998. ISBN 958-96300-3-0, 9789589630037
  4. Pedro José Ramírez Sendoya (1952). Diccionario Indio del Gran Tolima. Editorial Minerva LTDA. OCLC 3359515.

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