Peruvian chefs cook up a Guinness World Record title

Last week 300 chefs in Lima created a 6.8 tonne cebiche dish to gain the Guinness World Record Title for the ‘largest cebiche dish’ made. Almost seven tonnes of Peru’s signature dish, which is a citrus marinated seafood appetiser, could feed over 40,000 people.

Over five tonnes of white fish, lots of lime juice, onions, chilli pepper and salt were used to create the enormous appetiser in a 30 meter aluminium container. The chefs, who were mostly graduates of Lima’s cooking schools, spent a night cutting and cleaning the fish and then prepared the dish in just over an hour. Once the dish was finished, authorities weighed it at a total of 6,791 kilograms (about 14,940 pounds), which is much larger than the 4,460-kg cebiche that Mexico had prepared in 2007.

Increasing numbers of visitors are discovering Peru’s hidden gastronomic delights and letting their taste buds travel through the length and breadth of this delicious country. Cebiche is one of Peru’s many culinary treats and the country’s cuisine is steadily becoming considered one of the most varied of the world.

Peruvian cuisine is an accurate reflection of the country’s biological and climatic diversity. Peru’s enormous biodiversity (the country possesses almost two thirds of the planet’s existing ecosystems) is the reason why they have been able to put together such a multiple and diverse collection of recipes that use a great variety of aromatic herbs, exotic spices, succulent fruits, and abundance of vegetables and fish.

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