If you order Gibut or Bamboo Chicken you will be delighting in some of that country's authentic offerings. Gibut, you might recall was served to Queen Elizabeth on her visit and the press had a field day because Gibut is a large rodent, the headline, "Queen Eats Rat in Belize." Bamboo chicken is actual iguana, known to be very tender.
But no worry, a traditional meal usually consists of rice and beans, stewed chicken (the kind that lays eggs and goes cluck cluck), potato salad and fried plantain. There are two types of rice/bean dishes: "Rice and beans" or "stew beans and rice," the former is red kidney beans cooked with the rice in coconut milk. Belizeans eat rice and beans each day.
Maya Soul Food consists of escabeche (soup) and garnaches (crisy corn tortillas topped with refried beans, grated cheese and tomato sauce) and tamales which can be obtained just about anywhere, anytime.
Seafood is abundant in Belize, there are dozens of choices and one called snook, considered to be the "steak of the sea."
Fruits are also plentiful: bananas, watermelon, papaya, pineapples and craboo (small yellow balls that are often made into wine or ice cream).
Pepitos, pumpkin seeds, are said to keep your mind off a failed romance or absent lover. And Yellow cashew fruit is stewed with brown sugar, or made into wine!
Belizeans aren't great coffee drinkers, they were a former British colony and so prefer tea!
Don't forget, we will all participant in a cooking school were we will shop for produce in the market and return to learn how to prepare it, then we get to enjoy the tastes!
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