Belize
Powder Bun
A dense, dry, slightly sweet coconut and flour bun raised with baking powder, sold in bags at bus stops and shops.
central-america
Belize
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Recado Rojo
Recado
Annatto seed ground with oregano, cumin, garlic and vinegar into a hard brick-red paste, dissolved into almost every stew in the country.
Belize
Relleno Negro
A dark, rich Belizean soup made from blackened recado, chicken or pork, and hard-boiled eggs, with a complex, smoky depth.
Belize
Rum Popo
A creamy Belizean Christmas drink of rum, milk, egg, sugar, and spices like nutmeg and cinnamon, served chilled.
Yucatán Peninsula, Belize
Salbute
Salbutes
A Yucatecan puffed tortilla topped with chicken or turkey, tomato, and pickled onion.
Belize
Seaweed Shake
Dried Eucheuma seaweed soaked and boiled until it gels, then blended with condensed milk, nutmeg and cinnamon into a thick cold drink.
Southern Belize, Belize
Sere
Sere de pescado
A Garifuna Belizean fish stew simmered with coconut, root vegetables, and aromatic herbs.
Yucatán Peninsula, Belize
Sikil pak
A Maya dip of ground toasted pumpkin seeds, tomato, and habanero.
Jamaica
Sorrel
Dried hibiscus calyces steeped with ginger, pimento and cloves, sweetened and often spiked with rum — drunk at Christmas.
Trinidad and Tobago
Stew Chicken
Chicken browned in burnt sugar and stewed with green seasoning, ketchup and pepper until the sauce turns mahogany.
Belize
Tablata
Grated coconut cooked down with sugar and slices of ginger, poured out and cut into squares that set hard and chewy.
Southern Belize, Belize
Tapou
Garifuna one-pot of fish, cassava, plantain and coconut milk layered and left to steam, closely related to the tapado of the Honduran coast.
Southern Belize, Belize
Toledo Cacao
Criollo-heavy cacao grown by Maya farmers in the Toledo district and fermented on the farm, the base of Belize's craft chocolate industry.
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Vinho de Caju
Canjira
Alcoholic drink made by fermenting cashew apple juice; Guinea-Bissau is one of the world's top cashew producers and the fermented apple juice is a popular local beverage; sweet, fruity, and mildly alcoholic; produced by women using traditional methods.
Belize
Wangla
Toasted sesame seeds bound with boiled cane sugar into a brittle slab, cracked into pieces to sell.