The major ingredients found in every peruvian dish's are rice, potatoes, chicken, pork, lamb, and fish. Most of these meals include one of the different kinds of "aji", or peruvian hot pepper, which mainly are: yellow aji pepper, red aji pepper, red rocoto pepper, and many other which are impossible to translate.
Most of this kinds of pepper are difficult to find in any other country, so it is very difficult to reproduce exactly the same way of preparation of most of the typical dishes.
 Most of those ingredients, like chicken, pork and lamb, where introduced to Peru 500 years ago, when the Spaniards came to South America. Other ingredients, like potatoes, which is maybe the most worldwide known peruvian food, where found by the Spaniards in the Peruvian Andes at that same time and carried it to Europe.
There are maybe 5 very common kinds of potatoes found in the every day peruvian dishes, and among them, the white and pink potatoes, due to their facility to grow in most kind of weathers, are the ones which are found in many other countries in the world.
The dishes peruvians use to eat can be divided in 2 main groups, the dishes they eat in their homes every day, and the dishes they usually eat in restaurants, due to the long time it take to prepare this dishes. Among this second group, there are 4 different kind of restaurants they use to go: Ceviche (typical sea food), Comida Criolla (Typical peruvian food), and of course, fast food.
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Examples of the dishes peruvians use to eat every day are:
Arroz con Pollo ( Stuffed chicken served with green rise)
Aji de gallina
Papa rellena
Lomo Saltado
Pure (rice, smashed potatoes mostly served with lamb stew)
Spaghetti with meat sauce (almost an international version, but the meat sauce uses hot red pepper)
Spaghetti a la Alfredo (completely an international food).
Seco de frejoles (Boiled beans with a lamb stew in green sauce, always served with white rice)
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