One of the best ways to get to know a culture is to immerse yourself in the food. Living in Honduras, we would frequent grocery stores, open-air markets, and street vendors, shopping and buying food like the locals. Here are some of the highlights of Honduran national food products and typical dishes.
Baleadas
Baleadas are flour tortillas folded in half and filled with mashed fried beans and cheese. Ground meat, shredded pork and chicken, and mashed avocados are frequent toppings on baleadas as well as on simple corn tortillas.
Rosquillas
Coffee may be the national drink (besides Coke) and is often served with rosquillas, crunchy cookies made out of corn. Depending on the region, rosquillas may be flavored with anise, dulce de leche, or honey.
Traditional Honduran Plate
A traditional Honduran plate features platters of grilled meat, such as beef, chicken, and sausages, mashed fried beans, fried plantains, rice, and pickled onions and cabbage. Pico de gallo, a tomato salsa with diced onions and jalapenos, make a colorful and acidic topping.
Honduran Tacos
Unlike the hard corn shells eaten in the US, Honduran tacos are soft, rolled flour tortillas stuffed with shredded meat and cheese.
Chips
Popular snacks are chips made out of fried plantains, bananas, and corn. Chicharron, fried pork skin, is also a favorite.
Pimienta y Comino (Pepper and Cumin)
The equivalent to our salt and pepper to Honduras is black pepper and cumin, often blended together.
Tropical flavored desserts
Desserts feature the local fruits, such as maracuya (passion fruit), naranja (orange), mango, fresa (strawberry), nancy (a yellow berry), coco (coconut), banana, and limon (lime).
