Belize recipes
Recipes from Belize: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Latin America & Caribbean
How to Make Chimole: Belize's Black Chicken Soup
How to make chimole (Chimole / Black Dinna), Belize's black chicken soup. A stand-in for days without black recado, how to simmer the chicken and boiled eggs, heat that avoids scorching, adjusting the spice, shopping for local ingredients, eating it with rice or tortillas, and storing it for the next day, set out for a home kitchen.
Latin America & Caribbean
Belizean Stew Chicken: Chicken Simmered with Red Recado
A recipe for stew chicken, a Sunday staple in Belize, Central America. Bone-in chicken is seasoned with red annatto spice paste (recado), soy sauce, and Worcestershire sauce, browned, then simmered with bell peppers and onion. Covers the Creole table with rice and beans and substitutes for recado.