Food on The Inca Trail
Inca Trail Trekking Food: What do you’ll eat on your Trip?
Worried about getting hungry on your trek through Inca Trail to Machu Picchu? SUNRISE PERU TREK prepares you for the culinary experience.
For the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, SUNRISE PERU TREK includes all meals and snacks for every trek until the last breakfast. All food is prepared from fresh ingredients that are purchased in the Cusco local market. Everything is transported by the porters, and then prepared by the chef. We do not use any canned or rehydrated food. It is all fresh, healthy and delicious!.
If you are with special dietary needs; No problem!… We cater to vegetarians, vegans and any food allergies. During your Inca Trail treks you will be well fed; Food will be provided five times a day, beginning with a big breakfast, a snack, lunch, tea time and dinner.
There are varieties of choices of local and western foods dishes or a mixture of both in all the major destinations you visit. During the Inca Trail trek you can expect 3 full meals a day as well as well as regular tea and coffee breaks; the food is freshly prepared daily.
Trekking is a wellness activity which helps in detoxification. We now provide meals that include super food as part of the ingredients for better acclimatization to high altitude and better nourishment.
There’s plenty of it and often our clients say that food on our Inca Trail Treks is even better than meals in hotels. Certainly, it is important to eat and drink as much as possible during the trek, as you will be using a lot of calories each day. The menu varies according to your cultural backgrounds, but a typical day’s meals would be as follows:
Wake up call with a warm drink of caca tea to help with cope with a day of rigorous activity of trekking.
SUNRISE PERU TREK provides the most varied menu in the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Meals vary from typical “trekking food” to Italian and western food. We are looking to add more gourmet dishes to our menu depending on its availability. It is amazing what our trekking chefs can produce on occasions. With quite basic equipment they manage to produce excellent cakes with icing, apple tarts, pizzas, fried chips, spaghetti, pasta and even jelly! Our chefs are well trained in producing a variety of menus and will almost always be able to accommodate specific requests.
Below are some of our sample menus:
Day 1
Day 1
Breakfast:
- Fruit Salad
- Scramble eggs
- Orange juice
- Special Chuta bread
- Butter
- Jam
- Coffee
- Teas
Lunch:
- Pumpkin soup w/garlic bread
- Turkish rice (Rice cooked with carrots, peas and pumpkin)
- Trout w/Menier Sauce
- Guacamole
- Tarwi salad
Dinner:
- Stuffed cassava (carrots, peas, onions) w/elderberry sauce
- Sautéed vegetables
- Flamed bananas
- Fetuccini Alfredo noodles
- Vegetables cream
Day 2
DAY 2
Breakfast:
- Hot choclate
- Beef Burger (Eggplant for a vegetarian option)
- Eggs omelet (Vegetables tortilla)
- Fried bananas w/cheese
Lunch:
- Quinua soup
- Lomo saltado (Soya beef for a vegetarian option)
- Vegetable salad
- Fusilli salad
- Corn tortilla
Dinner:
- Semolina soup
- Chicken with vegetables
- Brocoli emponchado
- Pastel de papa (Potatoe pie)
- Sautéed vegetables
- Rice with Mushrooms
Day 3
DAY 3
Breakfast:
- Fruit capping
- Pancakes w/ Orange jam
- Toasts
- Mixed juice
Lunch:
- Creole soup
- Rice w/olives
- Causa rellena
- Beef w/pepper (Eggplant w/pepper)
- Cauliflower marinade
- Chicken salad
Dinner:
- Vegetable cream
- Sautéed noodles
- Hot vegetables
- Grilled chicken w/ orange sauce
- Noodles w/Neapolitan Sauce
Day 4
DAY 4
Breakfast:
- Vegetables crepes
- Toasts
- Hot quinua
Lunch:
- Arroz Chaufa (Rice w/ welsh onions, sausages, soy sauce, eggs tortilla, pepper)
- Fried chicken
- Stuffed Avocado
- All will be pack as a box lunch
Dinner:
- Moraya cream
- Chicken brochettes
- Vegetables brochettes
- Beef Lasagna
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