# The best traditional Nicaraguan foods

Nica cooking of corn, red beans and plantain, from everyday gallo pinto to Sunday nacatamal, according to Expreso, Wikipedia and Nicaraguan recipe books.

- 110 votes · 12 items
- Nov 7, 2024 · croqueta_puebla
- https://even.best/en/l/863/the-best-traditional-nicaraguan-foods

## Top 10

1. **Gallo pinto** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — Rice and red beans fried together with onion and sweet pepper; eaten almost daily, the national dish.
2. **Surtido típico** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — Gallo pinto, fried ripe plantain, fried cheese, cream and tortilla.
3. **Nacatamal** (8 · ▲11 ▼3) — Corn masa with pork, rice, potato and mint wrapped in banana leaf; Sunday breakfast.
4. **Quesillo** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Tortilla with fresh cheese, pickled onion and cream, from Nagarote and La Paz Centro.
5. **Indio viejo** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Thick stew of shredded beef with corn masa, sour orange and annatto.
6. **Vigorón** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Boiled cassava with pork crackling and cabbage salad on banana leaf, from Granada.
7. **Rondón** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Caribbean coconut soup with seafood and root vegetables, from the Atlantic coast.
8. **Tres leches** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Soaked sponge dessert, popular across Nicaragua.
9. **Sopa de mondongo** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Beef tripe soup with vegetables; Masaya's is famous.
10. **Baho** (2 · ▲6 ▼4) — Beef, green and ripe plantain and cassava steamed in banana leaves.
11. **Güirilas** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Fresh corn pancakes with cuajada cheese, from Matagalpa.
12. **Pinolillo** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — Toasted corn and cacao drink, the drink of 'true Nicas'.

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