Rice and Beans

The traditional and world-famous Belize Rice and Beans with potato salad is a staple in the Belizean diet.

Belize Rice and Beans is cooked in coconut milk. The dish is served with potato salad and ripe fried or baked plantain when in season and fresh Habanero, onion and lime juice sauce. Rice and Beans reigns as the quintessential Belize dish.

Rice and beans with a choice of beef, chicken, pork, lobster, shrimp or game meat is one of the most important items on the local diet, approaching something like the national dish. The meat is cooked with recado (a spice made with annato seed, a native herb with a characteristic deep red color), and garlic. The meat portion can be fried, stewed or grilled.

Rice and beans is a category of dishes from many cultures around the world, whereby the staple foods of rice and beans are combined in some manner. The grain and legume combination provides several important nutrients and many calories, and both foods are widely available in Belize.