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.

Belizean Creole coconut-raisin buns in a paper-lined woven basket, glazed golden brown with raisins throughout
Belizean Creole Bun Recipe BelizeBread

Belizean Creole Bun Recipe

Belizean Creole Bun with Coconut and Raisins Creole bun is the sweet, spiced, raisin-studded bun Belizeans buy by the bag from the bakery and eat with coffee. Coconut milk goes into the dough, cinnamon and nutmeg and allspice go in with it, and the tops get brushed with hot sugar syrup the minute they come out of the oven. Kriol bun sits alongside Creole bread, johnny cakes and fry jacks as a Kriol breakfast staple (source), and coconut milk is one of the defining ingredients of that kitchen (source). This…
Isela Post
August 9, 2026
salad with fried shrimp in cafe
Belizean Coconut Shrimp BelizeLunch

Belizean Coconut Shrimp

Coconut shrimp is jumbo shrimp dipped in egg, packed into a coconut and flour breading seasoned with paprika, garlic and cumin, and fried until the coconut goes golden. It is on Belizean menus up and down the coast, and it is a fast dish: about 30 minutes start to finish. Coconut shrimp is not unique to Belize. It turns up across the Caribbean and well beyond it. What Belize brings to it is the shrimp, from a farmed-shrimp industry that supplies both the local table and export markets, and the…
Chica Post
August 11, 2026
assorted wine bottles
Belizean Rum Punch Recipe with Pineapple and Citrus BelizeBeverage

Belizean Rum Punch Recipe with Pineapple and Citrus

This Belizean Rum Punch recipe is perfect for any occasion. Made with strong white rum, pineapple syrup, orange and lime juice, and bitters, this punch packs a punch of flavor. Learn how to make your own pineapple syrup with fresh pineapple, lime juice, ginger root, and sugar. Serve with a lump of ice and top it off with maraschino cherries for a delicious and refreshing drink.
Isela Post
August 4, 2026
tart with meringue on plates near lemons on table
Belizean Lemon Pie BelizeDessert

Belizean Lemon Pie

Belizean Lemon Pie Belizean lemon pie is a condensed-milk citrus filling in a blind-baked crust under a tall meringue. It is tart the way a key lime pie is tart, sweeter from the condensed milk, and it sets without gelatin because the acid does the work. There is no cooking of the filling at all. Belizean lemon pie, Belizean lemon meringue pie and Belizean lime pie all name the same dessert, and the recipe below is written for either fruit. Ingredients 1 can (14 oz / 397 g) condensed milk,…
Joe Post
August 10, 2026
Rice Pudding Recipe - Belize News Post
Creamy Cardamom Rice Pudding BelizeDessert

Creamy Cardamom Rice Pudding

This is a stovetop rice pudding built on cardamom pods and a cinnamon stick, thickened with condensed and evaporated milk. It is not a regional recipe. It is one cook's version, picked up across a lot of kitchens, and the cardamom is the part that makes it worth the pot. Rice Pudding Recipe Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups (300 g) rice 4 cups (960 ml) water 4 cardamom pods, squashed but whole 1 cinnamon stick 1/2 cup (100 g) sugar 1 can (14 oz / 397 g) condensed milk 1 can…
Joe Post
August 11, 2026