What foods are common in Honduras?

Answer 1

Food in Daily Life. Beans and corn tortillas are the mainstays of the diet. The beans are usually fried, and the tortillas are small, thick, and usually handmade; ideally, they are eaten warm. A farm worker's lunch may be little more than a large stack of tortillas, a few spoonfuls of beans, and some salt. The ideal meal includes fried plantains, white cheese, rice, fried meat, a kind of thickened semisweet cream called mantequilla, a scrambled egg, a cabbage and tomato salad or a slice of avocado, and a cup of sweet coffee or a bottled soft drink. These meals are served in restaurants and homes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner year-round. Plantains and manioc are important foods in much of the country, especially the north and the Mosquitia. Diners often have a porch or a door open to the street. Dogs, cats, and chickens wander between the tables, and some people toss them bones and other scraps. There are Chinese restaurants owned by recent immigrants. In the early 1990s, North American fast-food restaurants became popular.

Answer 2

Popular foods in Honduras include carne asada (grilled beef); baleadas (corn tortilla with cheese, avocados, beans, and sometimes beef or eggs); enchilada (corn tortilla with ground beef, onions, bell pepper, and garlic with some boiled egg and tomato sauce); Pastelitos De Carne (meat pie; tacos served with cooked meat, cabbage, and salsa; and horchata which is a drink made of jicaro seed served with cashew nuts, cocoa, peanuts, and almonds.

Answer 3

Typically food in Honduras is always served with tortillas. Beans and rice are common foods also. Cheese is also eaten very often. Rosquillas,coajada, shrimp, fried fish with plantains, soups, mangoes, watermelon, eggs, chicken, meat and much more.

Answer 4

Very generally, Hondurans regularly eat rice, beans, fried plantains, eggs, corn tortillas, and a creamy white butter called "mantequilla" (a thick white substance that looks like more like sour cream). On the surface, a lot of food looks Mexican, but the flavors are significantly different. Mexican cuisine includes a lot of spicy food. Honduran food lacks almost any heat. In fact, Honduran hot sauces are less intensely hot than Mexican ones.

I generally find Hondurans foods to be either too bland, too salty, or too sweet. But that's a personal taste that probably reflects my upbringing in the United States. I think a lot of food in Honduras is good and worth trying. It is a mistake to treat Honduran food as a variation of Mexican food. Making such a comparison naturally makes Honduran food look inferior. I find it more effective to think of Honduras as a place that happens to have developed foods using similar ingredients to Mexico (corn, rice, and beans). Honduras doesn't try to emulate Mexico. It definitely has a separate identity.

Hondurans eat a wonderfully delicious and deceptively simple dish known as "Plato tipico" (literally "typical dish"). It consists of refried beans, fried plantains (the ripe or soft kind), a piece of semi-soft cheese, fried egg, a piece of grilled steak meat, and chizmol (alternatively spelled chimol, which is essentially a much less spicy version of pico de gallo. It is a mixture of tomato, onion, green pepper, and lime juice). A great place to have a Plato tipico is in Tegucigalpa at a restaurant called El Patio on Boulevard Morazon. They call it "El Catrachito" (Catracho is the nickname for Hondurans, sort of like how Argentineans are called Gauchos). My only criticism of this dish has to do with how Hondurans frequently cook their red meat - almost exclusively well done. I like my meat cooked medium or medium well. I find Honduran meat to often taste burnt and dry. But that's how they like it and there's nothing wrong with that.

Hondurans love fruit juices (jugos) packed with tons of sugar. They're not big on iced tea or even water. They frequently drink juices made of pineapple (piña), passion fruit (maracuya), tamarind (tamarindo), orange (naranja), cashew (marañon), etc. The juice by itself is fine, but Hondurans usually add tons of sugar making these drinks way too sweet for my taste (but since Americans drink so much soda, perhaps drinking juice

I know this entry is basic and acknowledge that it needs work, but it far surpasses the previous entry, which had little or nothing to do with Honduran food and instead discussed a racist view of the United States and "white" people.

Answer 5

traditional foods from Hounduras are: Tortillas, Fried Beans, Bananas or Papayas, Eggs, and some type of vegitable. fruits, vegitables, and meat are usually buchered and home grown for each family.

Answer 6

it mostly involves beans, rice, tortillas, meat, and potatoes.

they also love coffee and grow bananas.

Answer 7

Soups are one kind of food often eaten by those in Honduras. Common soups are tripe soup, bean, seafood, and beef. People in this region also eat a lot of yucca, and corn tortillas.

Answer 8

bananas and coffee and sugar cane and African palm used for biofuel and that

Answer 9

They eat Baleadas, and drink Horchatas