Where to eat when visiting Honduras!

Coco Baleadas: The best place to have an exotic coco flavor Baleada, but still very traditional. You can chose from a variety of side dishes such as eggs, sour cream, cheese, conchita pibil, guacamole, avocado, sausage, salsa, corn....etc.
Address: Centro Comericial Los Proceres, Tegucigalpa Honduras.
Website: www.cocobaleadas.com

Los Tonelitos: This unique artisan food canteen has being for decades located in Barrio La Guadalupe. They sell bocadillos such as Yuca con chicarron, a delicious fried plantain with beans but their speciality is "Pastelitos de Perro"(fried corn dough with potato filling). Many people stop after work to buy some  bocadillos as a snack before dinner. Good food, for less!
Address: Barrio La Guadalupe, calle la Sinfonica, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Atolera Yoselin: If you what to enjoy an authentic "Atole", you must stop on the road to Comayagua. Atole is a very popular homemade corn beverage in Honduras with roots in the Mayan Cuisine. You might also enjoy some "Montucas" (sweet tamales), "Fritas" (corn pancakes with sugar) and many more authentic mayan food.
Adress: Los Palillos, Villas de San Antonio, Comayagua




Power Chicken: this is a honduran franchise and  it is one of the best places to eat in the country.  Here you will find delicious ribs, rice&beans and the best grilled chicken ever in San Pedro Sula. It is always full no matter the time because its juicy flavory food, although is not so cheap, but if you like to eat good this is the place to go to and you wont regret it!
Adress: Avenida Cicumvalacion, across from City Mall, San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok is one of the most exotic and exciting destinations in the world. The way of living is totally different from the western world and every day you learn and experience new and exciting food and things to do. In Bangkok you can find lots and lots of Street Food everywhere. You can find everything from fresh pineapples, to crispy cockroaches and nice rice with pork and fried eggs. There is literally Street Food on every street and in every market in Thailand, and the food is very cheap and very often cooked in front of you so that you have a clear vision if it is fresh or not. To avoid stomach problems stay with the food charts that has the biggest queues!

Here are some examples of what you can find in the streets of Bangkok:

Chotechitr is serving delicious marinated pork, chicken and beef, freshly made in front of your eyes accompanied with sticky rice or noodles. Everything is made from homemade recipes brought down through generations. They serve quick and easy made food to a cheap price.

Address: 146 Phraeng Phuton, Bangkok

The Victory Monument in the central Bangkok is a great place to go that actually serves a lot of different food since it is a big square with lots of competitors. It is almost impossible to pass through the square without having a snack or some lunch. They serve everything from noodle soups to fresh fruits and chicken curry with rice. Every customer and all the food is handled and prepared quickly in front of your eyes.

Address: Victory Monument, Anusawari Chai Samoraphum, Bangkok. Situated between Thanon Ratchawithi and Thanon Phaya Thai road.

Koh San Road is one of the most famous and popular tourist attractions in Bangkok. It is a very small street crowded with shops and food charts on each side of the road where there are tons of different kinds of food. You can find everything from Burger King and Falafel to ginger soup and crispy cockroaches. You can find both take-away food as well as Street Food restaurants where you get served very quickly and you get a lot of food for almost no money at all.

Address: Koh San Road, Bangkok

Enchiladas

"Enchilada"

Ingredients:

Corn tortillas, fried

1-pound ground beef


1/2 onion, chopped


1/2 green pepper, chopped


2 cloves garlic, minced


2 tablespoons of tomato paste

Hard-boiled eggs, sliced

Cabbage

Tomato

Parmesan cheese


Spices (cumin, salt, pepper,vinager,lemon, cilantron)


Cooking oil

Optional: 
1 large carrot, diced small
1 medium potato, diced small

Steps:

1. Heat the oil in a large frying pan, add onion and green pepper and cook until onion is transparent. About halfway there, add the garlic. Add carrots and potatoes if you’re using them.

2. Toss in the meat and tomato paste. Cook the meat and vegetables thoroughly.


3. While the meat cooks you can prepare the salad. Mix the following together:

-Half a head of cabbage, shredded

-
1 plum tomato, diced

-
Vinegar or lime juice


-Salt and pepper


4. Everyone builds their own enchilada at the table but be eat carefully, as they can easily fall apart! This is the preferable order:

Take one fried tortilla; add a layer of meat, add layer of salad, add layer of
 tomato slices, add layer of hard-boiled eggs slices, parmesan cheese and ketchup.




Enjoy!

The Original "Baleadas"

Honduras' Most Known Street Food

Baleadas de Honduras

"Baleadas" is one of the most representative dishes of the Honduran cuisine and the most traditional street food in the country. It is a flour tortilla stuffed with beans, crumbled salty cheese and a bit of sour cream (queso duro and mantequilla); usually eaten at breakfast or dinner. 

"Dona Tere" - The First "Baleada" stand

This Mayan rooted dish was born in the city of “La Ceiba” in the famous street called "Baleadas of the Line”. Its development is attributed to a woman known as "Dona Tere", which had her food stand on the shores, where the trains of the Banana Standard Fruit Company once ran. 

The natives of the area, Los Ceibeños, named this Honduras Street food “Baleadas” because  they used to eat a flour tortilla folded in half, fill with beans in "bullet" (whole grain red bean) and sheered salted cheese. This, being bitten by one of its ends, caused a pressure that makes the beans go bullet "fired" out of the tortilla, hence the origin of its peculiar name.

La Ceiba, Honduras

Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Wheat flour tortillas. 

2. Refried Beans

3. Crumbled salty cheese   

    (queso seco)
     
4. Sour Cream (mantequilla)    

   
5. Other ingredients (egg,
    beaten, butter, avocado, etc)

Steps to follow:

1. Heat an ungreased griddle, comal or skillet over medium flame. Meanwhile, heat up the refried beans in a saucepan, stirring in a little water.
2. Place a flour tortilla into the skillet and heat it on both sides to soften it up. Place the tortilla on a serving plate. Smear some refried beans on one half of the tortilla, sprinkle it with some crumbled cheese and drizzle it with a little sour cream. Fold the tortilla in half over the filling.
3. Repeat with the remaining tortillas and serve hot.

Other Baleadas Fillings: Scrambled eggs, seasoned ground beef or pork, sliced avocado, plantain, leave it to your imagination !

New York

There are many different opinions on what Street Food really is and no one can say what is right or wrong. Street Food can be whatever people perceive it to be.

In my mind, Street Food is all kind of food sold in the streets in the different countries worldwide. It could be hot and cold or sweet and salty, the sky has no limits.

If we take New York for example, you have all these amazing food wagons in every street corner selling everything from Roasted Almonds to Hot Dogs and it smells so good. It is quite difficult to differ what’s good and what’s not at the different Street Food places. Our tip would be to always look at the queue, if it is big, then you know where to go!

Here are a few examples from fellow food lovers: (keep in mind that there are many more than these out there)

The King of Falafel is serving amazing chawarma, falafel and chicken platters and have a menu that shows a wide range of Middle Eastern specialties. It is open from 9 am to 11 pm Monday to Saturday

Address: 30^th street and Broadway. www.thekingfalafel.com

Korilla BBQ is the next one and it serves everything from burritos and tacos to homemade tofu and they even have a website that tracks where they are located every day. Their website is very interactive and you can chose from a menu and place your order there before picking it up. www.korillabbq.com

Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream is selling creamy and delicious homemade ice-cream from 8 am to 6 pm every day. They serve chocolate chip cookie ice-cream, ricotta pound cakes and tons of other flavors.

Address: 67th and Central Park West.

N.Y. Dosas is a nice vegetarian food cart that serves healthy and delicious vegetarian crêpes and crunchy dices of carrots and peppers from South India.

Address: West 4^th Street and Sullivan. 

This blog was created to share experiences and recipes from the every day delicious Honduran cuisine. The recipes are from the traditional Honduran meals that can be found throughout the streets in all the regions of Honduras.

So, What is Street Food?

According to us, Street Food is food and beverages which are quick and easily prepared and often portioned into take-away containers.  Street Food is; Convenient, quickly available, tasty, easy to make, often cheap and authentic. In Honduras you can find these shops in every street corner, in every city and in every region all over the country.

Typical Street Food in the different regions of Honduras are:

-Tacos - Fried corn tortilla stuffed with slices of chicken, peppers, unions, melted cheese and coleslaw.

-Baleadas - Flower tortillas served with beans, cheese, eggs and sour-cream.

-Tamales - Corn husk filled with tamale dough, stuffed with either pork or beef and onions, garlic, chile sauce.

-Carne Asada - Corn tortillas with salsa, salad, beans, fried plantaines, sour cream, avocados, sausage, rice, cheese, beef

-Elotes Asados - Grilled corn

-Enchilladas - Fried corn tortillas stuffed with beef, coleslaw, salsa sauce and chees

-Tortilla con Quesillo - Fried corn tortilla stuffed with melted cheese, tomato sauce and mashed beans.

-Catrachitas - Fried corn tortillas with mashed beans and cheese