I'd like to prepare the Peruvian dish called Cuy.?

It's a guinea pig!!! Isn't that gonna be like eating a rat??? Get'em at the pet shop.

A typical recipe for baked or barbequed cuy with a hot sauce:

3 or 4 cuys

50 grams of ground toasted corn, or cornmeal

2 kilos of parboiled potatoes, cut in slices

8 cloves of garlic

6 fresh hot peppers, either red or yellow

½ cup oil

½ cup water

salt, pepper and cumin to taste

Rub the cuys with a mix of the pepper, salt, pepper and cumin and bake. You can also skewer over a barbeque.

Prepare a sauce with the oil, peppers, garlic and cornmeal with the water from the potatoes or broth. Cook a few minutes until the peppers are cooked. When tender, place the meat in a serving dish and spoon the sauce over it. Serve with the boiled potatoes.

Another recipe calls for:

4 cuys

1 teaspoon hot pepper

1 tablespoon pisco

garlic to taste

6 fresh hot peppers, either red or yellow

1/4 cup oil

salt, pepper to taste Season the cleaned cuys with salt, pepper, hot pepper and pisco. Fry in oil five minutes or until cooked.

Serve with a hot pepper sauce, potatoes, either fried or boiled and a salad of cucumber, tomato, lettuce and onion.

Chicha is often served with cuy, as it was in Incan times. Buen provecho!

To find the larger animal, you must grow your own, or know a grower. They will require larger cages, and proper food. Most of the smaller breeds have been kept inbred to inhibit size, so they can be raised in small cages as pets. Pick large offspring from two or three different shops, and breed your own, mating only the largest, and selling or consuming the smaller ones until you accomplish your goal.

I have always wanted to try guinea pig. Let me know how it turns out!

Hey its your first question congrats.