Guatemalan Dessert: Banana Bread with Mole topped with Almonds
How about finishing the work week with something sweet, such as this banana bread with mole and almonds. As many of you …
Guatemalan Comfort Food: Mole
The mole from Guatemala is very similar to mole poblano, which is a chocolate and chili based sauce (over simplification of the …
Traditional Guatemalan Mole
Guatemalan mole is very similar to mole poblano, which is a chocolate and chili based sauce (over simplification of the ingredients). One big difference is that mole poblano is a meal with chicken or turkey, while Guatemalan mole is a dessert of plantains ladled with chocolate sauce or mole for short. Bon appetite!
Festival Gastronómico de Sacatepéquez 2016
As part of the celebrations of La Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, or The …
Jocón, The Green Mayan Curry
Jocón is Guatemala’s most famous green stew. We could also call it green mole if we use the wide definition of the …
Garnachas quetzaltecas at the town fair of Ciudad Vieja
Garnachas quetzaltecas are quite the food attraction at the town fair of Ciudad Vieja. Interesting enough, hardly ever you find at the …
Thanksgiving with Tropical Fruits in Antigua Guatemala
In Guatemala we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, well, most Guatemalans don’t, some do and most ex-pats from the U.S. do as well. Anyhow, …
Visual Guatemalan Guacamol Recipe
Here’s a simple visual recipe for the Guatemala guacamol or avocado sauce. That’s right in Guatemala we drop the final e of …
Guatemalan Food: The Shuco Hot Dog
This Guatemalan shuco hot dog is a mixto [mixed], meaning it has more than one meat, four meats to be precise here: …
Learning to cook Guatemalan food in Antigua Guatemala
Learning to cook the different dishes in the Guatemalan gastronomy can be a challenging exercise, especially so in you don’t have a …
Guatemalan Food: Jocón
Jocón is basically a Guatemalan tomatillo-cilantro sauce; although we use the word miltomate instead. We also have another word for cilantro in …
The Typical Guatemalan Sandwich
The typical Guatemalan sandwich is simply known as Pan (bread) or pan con carne (beef sandwich), pan con chile relleno (chile relleno …
A Chevere hotdog is not a Shuco hotdog
To the uneducated eye the Guatemalan Chevere and Shuco hotdogs are just exotic hotdogs, but to the Guatemalans these two hotdogs are …
Guatemalan Comfort Food: Camote, Chilacayote & Higos
Oh December, or the dry season for the matter, is full of Guatemalan comforting foods; mostly sweets like buñuelos, torrejas, mole, camote, …
Guatemala’s the Birth place for Chocolate
Did you know that Guatemala is the birthplace for chocolate? If not, read on. Cocoa bean (also cacao bean,[1] often simply cocoa …