# The best Belizean dishes

Rice and beans, stew chicken, fry jacks, garnaches and boil up: the Kriol, Mestizo, Maya and Garifuna flavours of Belize.

- 63 votes · 20 items
- May 15, 2019 · Jordan Thompson
- https://even.best/en/l/3548/the-best-belizean-dishes

## Top 20

1. **Stew chicken** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Chicken stewed in recado.
2. **Fry jacks** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Fried flour dough for breakfast with beans and eggs.
3. **Chimole** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Black recado soup, also called chirmole.
4. **Tamales** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Corn and chicken tamales.
5. **Rice and beans** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Staple of the Kriol dinner, with meat and salad.
6. **Panades** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Fried corn pies filled with fish or beans.
7. **Caldo** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The most famous Maya dish, a meat and vegetable soup.
8. **Boil up** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Kriol cultural dish of fish or pig tail, eggs and ground foods.
9. **Bammies** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Cassava cakes fried, dipped in coconut milk and fried again.
10. **Hudut** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Garifuna fish in coconut broth with mashed plantain.
11. **Tablata** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Coconut and ginger candy.
12. **Powderbun** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Traditional Kriol sweet bun.
13. **Fish sere** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Kriol fish stew in coconut milk.
14. **Ereba** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Garifuna cassava bread.
15. **Johnny cakes** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Baked flour biscuits for breakfast.
16. **Coconut crust** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Sweetened grated coconut baked in a folded crust.
17. **Wangla** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Sesame sweet.
18. **Garnaches** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fried corn tortillas with beans, cheese and onion.
19. **Escabeche** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Onion soup with chicken.
20. **Potato pound** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sweet potato pudding.

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