# The best traditional dishes of Yucatán

Mayan cooking with recados and annatto, according to Wikipedia's article on Yucatecan cuisine: from cochinita pibil to papadzules.

- 114 votes · 12 items
- May 13, 2019 · veggie.canalla
- https://even.best/en/l/1735/the-best-traditional-dishes-of-yucatan

## Top 12

1. **Cochinita pibil** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — Pork in annatto and sour orange, cooked underground in banana leaf.
2. **Sopa de lima** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — Chicken broth with Yucatecan lime and fried tortilla.
3. **Panuchos** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Bean-stuffed tortillas topped with chicken or turkey and red onion.
4. **Salbutes** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Puffed fried tortillas with shredded turkey.
5. **Papadzules** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Egg tacos in pumpkin-seed sauce.
6. **Poc chuc** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Pork marinated in sour orange, grilled.
7. **Marquesitas** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Crisp rolled wafer with Edam cheese.
8. **Relleno negro** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Turkey in a paste of burnt chillies.
9. **Codzitos** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — Rolled taquitos with tomato sauce and cheese.
10. **Xtabentún** (5 · ▲8 ▼3) — Anise liqueur with xtabentún flower honey.
11. **Queso relleno** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Edam cheese stuffed with meat, in white sauce and tomato.
12. **Mucbipollo** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Big tamale baked underground for the Day of the Dead.

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