Posted by johngl
My working title for this post was: Machu Picchu: Pleased to Eat You and was inspired by a visit to a place called Inka Mama’s in Aliso Viejo, CA. Let’s be clear though, Inka Mama’s is not some fancy eatery, it’s just a place to eat some really good food. It also just happens to be located in a strip mall within walking distance of one of our game development studios.
I was really quite pleasantly surprised when they seated us for lunch and provided some bread along with a nondescript bottle full of some green stuff. It was excellent. It was so excellent that I asked the waitress what was in it. “Lettuce, serrano peppers, and Pervian spices,” she said. Hmmm. She wasn’t very forthcoming.
Apparently, the recipe for this excellent green stuff is elusive even on the interwebs. I was going to have to wing it.

For a first stab at duplicating Mama’s chicken and rice recipe, as well as the green stuff, things worked out really well. In fact, though different than the Inkan original, it bordered on awesome.
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