Recipes

This is the full recipe collection: Belizean home cooking first, and the wider Caribbean and Central American kitchens it sits inside.
The Belizean core is stew chicken, rice and beans, fry jacks, panades, hudut and escabeche, built on recado, coconut milk, fresh seafood and corn.
Around it are the regional kitchens that share those ingredients and cook them differently: Jamaican jerk and brown stew, Puerto Rican pernil and mofongo, Cuban ropa vieja, Salvadoran pupusas, Guatemalan pepian and Haitian griot.
Browse by meal in the sections below, or by country and culture.

Plate of Salvadoran salpores de arroz, pale golden rice-flour cookies scored in a crosshatch pattern, one broken open to show the crumb
Salpores de Arroz Recipe DessertEl Salvador

Salpores de Arroz Recipe

Salpores, or salpores de arroz, are traditional Salvadoran rice flour cookies with a dry, crumbly shortbread texture, flavored with cinnamon and anise. Made from rice flour, butter, sugar, and egg, they are a classic Salvadoran pan dulce eaten with coffee or atol, a staple of home bakeries and holiday tables across El Salvador. Why salpores are El Salvador's coffee-table cookie The first time I ate a salpor, I was standing in a kitchen in San Salvador, watching someone's grandmother open a tin from the top shelf. She didn't offer it…
Isela Post
August 4, 2026
Bowl of Honduran sopa de capirotadas, golden fried masa and cheese cakes floating in an achiote-tinted tomato broth with peppers and onion, tortillas alongside
Honduran Sopa de Capirotadas Recipe DinnerHonduras

Honduran Sopa de Capirotadas Recipe

Sopa de capirotadas is a savory Honduran Lenten soup of small fried dumplings made from corn masa and cheese, simmered in a tomato and achiote broth. Despite the shared name, it is not the Mexican capirotada, a sweet bread pudding. Honduran families eat it during Semana Santa as a meatless meal. The first time you make this, the part that surprises people is the order of operations. You fry the dumplings before they ever touch the broth. That single step is what holds the whole dish together, and most cooks…
Isela Post
August 4, 2026