Machuca In Honduras

If you are going to travel to Honduras, there is one thing you cannot miss in your visit. One of the traditional dishes at Honduras’ coast is Machuca. Whatever you decide to go, it can be Giriga, Triunfo de la Cruz, Punta Gorda, Batalla, Limon, Sambo Creek, Corozal, and many others Garifuna’s village in Centro America you have to include Garifuna traditional food.
Traditional Garifuna food is mostly rich in seafood. Garifunas communities are all around Caribbean coast in Cento America, especially in Island such as, Roatan, and Cayos Cochinos. The ocean is their most accessible source for protein.
For your understanding let me introduce a brief history of Garinagu in Honduras. Commonly refers to as “Garifuna,” people are called it properly “Garinagu” and the language and culture is “Garifuna.” In 1635, Spanish ships carrying Nigerian people sank off the coast of St. Vicent. There, the slaves that survive found shelter in
Boil fish heads, fish tails, shrimp peels, dark conch meat, fish bones and any other type of seafood you don’t want to make a dish out of. Use two or three cloves of garlic, 1 or two Chopped bell peppers, 1/2 Lb. of cassava in cube, salt and pepper, a few mutton peppers chopped, and any other spices or herbs you like in fish soup. Drop the cassava in the fish stock first; it will take longer to cook than the rest of the ingredients. After a couple of minutes, add the onions, bell peppers, mutton peppers, salt and pepper. Add the fish in the soup when the cassava begins to soften. If the fish is fried, do not cook further. Cook in low heat until the cassava is soft enough to poke through with a fork. If you fried the fish, place it in the middle of the bowl, with a scoop of Machuca paste next to it, and pour the soup around.. If you are serving in a family dinner setting, place all of the Machuca paste in one big ball, on the middle of the table, for everyone to pick at as they