Belize
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Rice and Beans (Belize)
Belize's Sunday anthem: rice and beans cooked in coconut milk with red kidney beans, served with stew chicken, potato salad and fried plantain — the plate the whole country plans its weekend around. Ingredients: rice, re…
Stew Chicken (Belize)
The mahogany chicken: Belizean stew chicken — chicken marinated in recado (achiote) paste, vinegar and spices, browned and stewed until the sauce turns dark and rich — the partner of rice and beans. Ingredients: chicken,…
Hudut
The Garifuna fish soup: hudut — fish simmered in coconut milk with okra, served with mashed plantain (the hudut balls themselves, also called fu-fu in Garifuna kitchens) — Dangriga's gift to the nation. Ingredients: fish…
Escabeche (Belize)
The Maya corn soup of the west: caldo — a chicken and vegetable broth with achiote-coloured escabeche onions in San Ignacio's style (escabeche itself, the pickled onion chicken soup, is the Cayo breakfast); together they…
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