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Gastronomy
The Northern Plains feature at least three traditional types of cuisine: cross-border cuisine, mestizo cuisine, and Maleku cuisine. The products that serve as the base for these cooking styles include beans, corn, rice, citrus fruits, pineapple, heart of palm, plantain, cassava, and others.
The area has a very tasty gastronomy that you must not miss. Among the main dishes, we have:
Cocoa candy
Candy prepared with cocoa and caramelized sugar. Simply delicious.
Bijagua style tubers and cheese
A dish based on cassava, tubers such as chamol, malanga and/or tiquizque, hard-boiled eggs, sweet and spicy peppers, garlic, and a cheese sauce (sour cream and cheese).
Green plantain and ñampí tamal
It is a bread prepared with a local tuber called ñampí, green plantains and pork.
Corn soup with Cassava Picadillo Milk soup cheese
A hash type dish based on shredded chicken, chicken broth, cassava, cilantro, sweet peppers, tomato and onions.
Malanga with milk. Recipe Adishbasedoncornflour, prepared with malanga, milk and cheese, onion, water, salt. It is a kind of cream of the milk, peppers, coriander, tuber. spearmint, salt and pepper. si.cultura.cr/manifestaciones- culturales/sopa-de-malanga-en-
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