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Definition of Charqui

Charqui
Charqui Char"qui, n. [Sp. A term used in South America, Central America, and the Western United States.] Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. --Darwin.

Meaning of Charqui from wikipedia

- Jerky or "charqui" is lean trimmed meat cut into strips and dehydrated to prevent spoilage. Normally, this drying includes the addition of salt to prevent...
- charquisillo, a dish made with ch’arki and rice. Chilean Charquicán is made with charqui, or beef, potatoes, pumpkin, white corn, onions, and sometimes peas and...
- Olluquito, olluquito con carne (with meat) and olluquito con ch'arki (with dried llama meat) are traditional dishes in Peruvian cuisine made with ulluku...
- peppers, which are native to Jamaica. The word "jerk" is said to come from charqui, a Spanish term of Quechua origin for jerked or dried meat, which eventually...
- cooked in a Pachamanca with other meats and vegetables. Olluquito con charqui is another traditional Andean dish. Olluco is a yellowish tuber (Ullucus...
- Carne seca – Mexican dried beef Cecina – Salted and dried or cured meat Charqui – Lean meat dried to prevent spoilagePages displaying short descriptions...
- of Valdivia, Chile, is a Chilean dish, consisting of a soup made with charqui (jerky) and onions. In 1598, after the Disaster of Curalaba where the Spanish...
- conquistadors. It is a cold dish that includes various meats (cuy, boiled chicken, charqui, morcilla (blood sausage), salchicha (sausage)), potatoes, cheese, corn...
- northwestern Spain (Asturias, León, Cantabria), Cuba, Nicaragua and Mexico. Charqui, made from llama or alpaca, in South America. Chipped beef, partially dried...
- camelids were a valuable resource. Their meat was consumed fresh or in charqui and chalona; their wool was used to make threads and fabrics; their bones...