Belize recipes
April 17, 2009 4:05 AM Subscribe
We need to make an appetizer and a dessert from Belize (finger food preferable), or typical of Belize, and are having trouble finding good recipes. Does anyone know any tasty Belizean recipes?
I forgot to add, in regards to the desserts:
Belize doesn't have a very extravagant or refined dessert culture (the country was colonized by the British, not the French). However, you can usually find homemade coconut pie, chocolate pie, or bread pudding on most menus. Flan, an egg-and-condensed-milk custard imported from Mexico, is also popular.
posted by magstheaxe at 6:29 AM on April 17, 2009
Belize doesn't have a very extravagant or refined dessert culture (the country was colonized by the British, not the French). However, you can usually find homemade coconut pie, chocolate pie, or bread pudding on most menus. Flan, an egg-and-condensed-milk custard imported from Mexico, is also popular.
posted by magstheaxe at 6:29 AM on April 17, 2009
Response by poster: these are great suggestions!
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posted by Marilyn Johnson at 8:30 AM on April 17, 2009
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posted by Marilyn Johnson at 8:30 AM on April 17, 2009
mmm I love Belizean coconut fudge. I wish I had a recipe for you. We bought it on the streets of Caye Caulker, and it was sort of a mix between a brittle and a standard fudge. No chocolate. Absolutely packed with coconut, almost like a macaroon.
magstheaxe rocked the appetizers. I want to second both conch fritters and ceviche in particular.
posted by changeling at 5:00 PM on April 17, 2009
magstheaxe rocked the appetizers. I want to second both conch fritters and ceviche in particular.
posted by changeling at 5:00 PM on April 17, 2009
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Anyway, due to the offline comments of others about Belizean food, I've been doing a little reading. Here's what I've got:
Belizean cuisine is a mix of Caribbean, Mexican, African, Spanish, and Mayan cuisines. Their biggest staples are seafood, rice, and beans, so for appetizers you could get away with chimole (their answer to gumbo) or camaron frito.
Beyond that, the appetizers they're best known for are conch fritters (deep-fried balls of flour batter and chopped conch meat--think of it as a Belizean hush puppy) and ceviche.
If you can't do the above, lean on the Mexican influence and offer tamales or dukunu Panades (small, deep-fried empanadas) are popular jn Belize, too.
Belizean dessert: potato pone . You could also offer fried plantains served with sour cream--apparently that's a very Belizean way to serve them.
posted by magstheaxe at 6:25 AM on April 17, 2009