FOREINGS EXPERIENCE

Typical Costa Rican tamale
Back in June of this year I shared with you another tamale recipe. Well, since this is a favorite of Ticos everywhere, here's a second recipe for the typical Costa Rican tamale. The tamale is eaten a lot during the month of December as part of the Christmas dinners and end of year celebrations. Ticos have a lot of ways of preparing tamales, this is just another one of them, I hope you like it.Ingredients:4 cups of corn flour4 cups of potatoes puree5 cups of water½ cup and 6 tsp. of chicken broth1 cup of olive oil4 garlic1 sp. de grounded marjoramPlane leafsFor the filling:1 cup of cooked white ricePaprika1 roll of celery1 medium carrot1 small can of green peas½ red chili½ shredded chickenPreparation:1. For the dough, sauté with the oil, the good chopped garlic and the marjoram. Then add the other ingredients of the dough and mix.2. For the filling, chop the carrot in thin slices and the red chili in small stripes. Divide in different recipients the celery, the green peas and the rice3. Clean the leafs and cut them in the same4. Once that the dough is cold make it in balls of the same size (from 100 to 125 g each one)5. Now with all the ingredients ready, start to give a shape to the tamales. Put two leafs and, over them, one of the dough balls. Smash it a little to put the rice over and then all the vegetables and the chicken. Finally, put a little branch of celery as decoration.6. Close it carefully and make "piñas", so they won't open while cooking. They can also be frozen for 3 months, so any time you want to eat them, you just defrost and cook them. In this way, you will eat the tamales always fresh.7. Cook them for approximately 30 minutes

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COSTA RICA TYPICAL FOOD

MY OPINION ABOUT COSTA RICA TYPICAL FOOD.

the costarican menu is based in rice and beans, we use a lot of vagetables .

we like to place in our table many different things to acompany this food, like bread, our tipical tortillas, and it is very commun for us to have the meals with a verberage like our famus orchata, pinolillo, or some milk shakes like bananaa lot of vegetables like, chayote, patatoes, corn, and those who we produce here in our lands,
pineaple, or tropical fruts that are produced here, costarrican food is very rich in soduim, iron, and many other kind o vitamins, it is very tipical for us to eat "gallo pinto" for5 breakfast and aou famus "casado", that tnot only us but people from other countries enjoy as well...

COSTA RICA TYPICAL FOOD

Typical Dishes
Some of the popular foods Costa Ricans eat.
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Maxi's at Manzanillo de Limon

Casado
Served at Reserva Los Campesinos, Quepos

Casado Dish
Typical casado dish with chicken, rice, beans, salad, and picadillo.

Casado Dish
Chicken, rice, black beans, salad, and sweet platain (called "Platanos Maduros")

Ceviche Mixto
A seafood dish of marinated shrimp and fish

Chorreada
Popular corn patty

Chorreada & Elote
Typical corn dish. This is a fried patty made of corn and topped with natilla (sour cream) and salt. Delicious!

Fish dish
Exquisite grilled whole fish served in Restaurante Palomo, Orosi

Grilled fish caribbean style
Maxi's at Manzanillo de Limon