The best Belizean dishes
The top 3 according to 63 votes from people: Stew chicken · Fry jacks · Chimole. (Updated May 15, 2019.)
Rice and beans, stew chicken, fry jacks, garnaches and boil up: the Kriol, Mestizo, Maya and Garifuna flavours of Belize.
Top 20
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1
Stew chicken
Chicken stewed in recado.
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2
Fry jacks
Fried flour dough for breakfast with beans and eggs.
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3
Chimole
Black recado soup, also called chirmole.
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4
Tamales
Corn and chicken tamales.
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5
Rice and beans
Staple of the Kriol dinner, with meat and salad.
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6
Panades
Fried corn pies filled with fish or beans.
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7
Caldo
The most famous Maya dish, a meat and vegetable soup.
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8
Boil up
Kriol cultural dish of fish or pig tail, eggs and ground foods.
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9
Bammies
Cassava cakes fried, dipped in coconut milk and fried again.
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10
Hudut
Garifuna fish in coconut broth with mashed plantain.
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11
Tablata
Coconut and ginger candy.
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12
Powderbun
Traditional Kriol sweet bun.
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13
Fish sere
Kriol fish stew in coconut milk.
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14
Ereba
Garifuna cassava bread.
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15
Johnny cakes
Baked flour biscuits for breakfast.
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16
Coconut crust
Sweetened grated coconut baked in a folded crust.
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17
Wangla
Sesame sweet.
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18
Garnaches
Fried corn tortillas with beans, cheese and onion.
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19
Escabeche
Onion soup with chicken.
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20
Potato pound
Sweet potato pudding.
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Fry jacks with beans and eggs at a little shop in Belize City, best breakfast of my trip