# The best traditional dishes of Tabasco

Grilled gar, garlic prawns and chicken in chirmol: the stews, seafood, tamales and sweets of Tabasco.

- 104 votes · 17 items
- Jul 17, 2020 · veggie.canalla
- https://even.best/en/l/2638/the-best-traditional-dishes-of-tabasco

## Top 17

1. **Pejelagarto asado** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — Tabasco's emblematic gar fish, grilled.
2. **Pigua al mojo de ajo** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — River prawns with garlic.
3. **Pollo en chirmol** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Chicken in chilli and charred tortilla sauce.
4. **Dulce de coco** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Grated, toasted coconut sweet.
5. **Tamales de chipilín** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Tamales with chipilín herb.
6. **Pijije en pipián** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Whistling duck in pumpkin seed sauce.
7. **Robalo a la tabasqueña** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Snook Tabasco-style.
8. **Chile amashito** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Tabasco's small hot chilli.
9. **Frijol con puerco** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Beans with pork.
10. **Pejelagarto en chirmol** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Gar in chirmol sauce.
11. **Ostiones ahumados al tapesco** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Oysters smoked on a tapesco.
12. **Carne salada con chaya y elote** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Salted beef with chaya leaves.
13. **Mariscos al chiltepín** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Seafood with chiltepín chilli.
14. **Tortilla de yuca** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Cassava tortilla.
15. **Caldo de camarón con calabaza** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — Shrimp and squash broth.
16. **Tortitas de camarón en verde** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Shrimp cakes in green sauce.
17. **Sopa de chaya** (-1 · ▲2 ▼3) — Chaya leaf soup.

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