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A red spiced Guatemalan soup finished with mint and scallion, kak ik

Kak’ik (Q’eqchi’ Maya Turkey Soup)

June 11, 2026

Bowl of Guatemalan pepián de pollo, chicken in a dark toasted-seed recado with vegetables

Pepián de Pollo (Guatemalan Chicken in Toasted Seed Recado)

June 11, 2026

A queen conch shell, the conch used in Honduran sopa de caracol

Sopa de Caracol (Honduran Conch Soup)

June 10, 2026

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Busy food market in Honduras with produce, grains, and dry goods

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Kak’ik (Q’eqchi’ Maya Turkey Soup)

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Catracha vs Baleada vs Enchilada vs Tustaca: Honduran Street Snacks Explained

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Guatemalan Food: A Guide to What to Eat

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Catracha vs Baleada vs Enchilada vs Tustaca: Honduran Street Snacks Explained

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Hudut, a Garifuna coconut fish stew with pounded plantain

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Hudut vs Sere vs Tapou vs Tapado: Garifuna Dishes Explained

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Tikal Maya temple pyramid rising above the Guatemalan jungle

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How to Get to Tikal from Belize

Short answer: There are two ways to reach Tikal from Belize. Go overland, west to San Ignacio, across the one…

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Guatemalan Food: A Guide to What to Eat

Short answer: Guatemalan food is built on the Maya recado, the dry-roasted, ground sauce that carries the meat. The three to know are the recado trio: pepián (Guatemala's national dish), kak'ik (the Q'eqchi' Maya turkey soup), and jocón (the green one). Around them sits a world of corn, tamales of every kind, and plantain sweets. For a Belizean, this food is family: the recado craft is the one we share across the border, the same one behind our own red and black recados. Guatemala is our western neighbor and our…

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Honduran Food: A Guide to What to Eat

A guide to Honduran food: what is good to eat?

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Fried plantain tajadas, a fixture of the Honduran plato típico

Plato Típico Hondureño

The plato típico hondureño is not one recipe: it is the whole table on a single plate. At the center sits carne asada: skirt steak marinated overnight in naranja agria (bitter sour orange), cumin, garlic, and oil, then grilled hard over open flame. Around it: refried red beans, white rice, fried green plantain tajadas, a spoonful of chimol (fresh tomato-onion relish), crumbled queso fresco, a drizzle of Honduran mantequilla cream, and slices of avocado. Warm corn tortillas come on the side to pull it all together, bite by bite. Independence…

Fiambre

Short answer: Fiambre is Guatemala's great All Saints' Day dish, a giant cold composed salad eaten once a year, on November 1st, to honor the dead. It piles together dozens of ingredients (often fifty or more): pickled vegetables, cured meats and sausages, cheeses, sometimes shrimp or sardines, all marinated overnight in a tangy vinegar brine called caldillo. The dish is unique to Guatemala and exists nowhere else in the world in this form. There is a red version (fiambre rojo, with beets) and a white one (fiambre blanco, without). It…

Sopa de Frijoles

Sopa de frijoles is the everyday bean soup of Honduras: small red silk beans simmered whole with pork ribs, garlic, onion, and bell pepper until the broth turns deep and savory. Near the end, a ladleful of cooked beans goes into the blender, then back into the pot. That is the move that makes the broth creamy without cream. Each bowl is finished with ripe plantain, a soft-poached egg, and a spoon of crema, served with warm corn tortillas and queso fresco. Dried red beans and grains at a Copán…

Sopa de Mondongo

Sopa de mondongo is a hearty Honduran tripe soup: beef stomach cleaned, simmered long, and brought together with yuca, green plantain, chayote, corn, and carrot in a herb-bright broth. Found across Latin America, the Honduran version stays clear and brothy rather than thick, leans on root vegetables for body, and finishes with cilantro and culantro. On the Caribbean coast, coconut milk goes in at the end. Ingredients This makes a full pot, enough for 6 people with rice and tortillas on the side. For cleaning the tripe: 2 lb honeycomb…

Honduran nacatamal wrapped in banana leaf and aluminum foil, ready to steam

Nacatamales

A nacatamal is a large Honduran tamale of nixtamal corn masa enriched with broth, lard, and achiote, filled with marinated pork or chicken, rice, potato, mint, and vegetables, then wrapped in banana leaf and steamed. Honduran nacatamales are Sunday morning and holiday food, heartier than a Mexican tamal and closely shared with Nicaragua. Why Hondurans Make Nacatamales for Christmas, Not Tuesdays A nacatamal is not weeknight food. It is a whole day, sometimes two, and it is rarely one person’s job. In Honduras the big batches come out at Noche…