Arroz Tapado is a popular dish found within the Peruvian Cuisine

Peruvian cuisine

Peruvian cuisine reflects local cooking practices and ingredients—and, through immigration, influences from Spain, China, Italy, West Africa, and Japan. Due to a lack of ingredients from their home countries, immigrants to Peru modified their traditional cuisines by using ingredients...

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Arroz Tapado is very similar to Papa rellena

Papa rellena

Papas rellenas is a traditional dish in Peruvian cuisines. The earliest appearances in cookbooks are from the late 19th century. It has now spread to other parts of Latin America...

, another Peruvian dish.

Both dishes share the use of a seasoned ground beef as their main ingredient. The ground beef is prepared with cooked onions, chopped boiled egg, raisins and olives.

Arroz tapado is made by tightly packing rice and the seasoned ground beef into a bowl. The bowl is then turned over onto a plate and removed so that only the ingredients remain.

The dish is often decorated with cilantro

Coriander

Coriander is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae. Coriander is native to southern Europe and North Africa to southwestern Asia. It is a soft, hairless plant growing to tall. The leaves are variable in shape, broadly lobed at the base of the plant, and slender and feathery higher on the...

 and served with salsa criolla, an onion dressing with aji

Ají pepper

Capsicum baccatum is a species of chili pepper that includes the following cultivar and varieties:*Aji amarillo, or amarillo chili*Peppadew*Lemon drop*Bishop's Crown*Brazilian Starfish*Wild Baccatum-Origins and distribution:The C...

, lemon juice, olive oil and white vinegar.