Nicaragua's cuisine has a very interesting background. When the Spanish came, they found out that the Creole had a cooking culture already, had interesting dishes of their own, and had learned to prepare corn in almost any way one can think of.
Creoles and Garifunas had been living there long enough as to have a very rich cooking tradition. Later on it mixed with the Spanish cuisine, making thus a very interesting product. Nicaraguans eat some dishes that to other countries may seem strange, as they eat turtle eggs, boas, and some other species going to extinction. They also prepare from the cow almost all parts of it, including brains, bull's testicles, skin and even the blood. But after a foreigner tries these dishes out, he will be amazed of how good they are.
The Nicaraguan cuisine includes many kinds of fruits and vegetables they grow, being a tropical country, and which have beautiful colors and tastes. But what really belongs to the Nicaraguan cuisine is the corn, in all its forms. This is the inheritance received from the Creoles and the Garifunas. And though most countries in Central America use widely corn, Nicaraguans make a treaty every day with it! Drinks, snacks, main dishes.....
The Spanish conquerors during the colonial times brought their own recipes, and the mixing of them with the regional ones in Nicaragua was of course natural and in that way was founded the Nicaraguan cuisine, rich, strange, and very good!
The different fruits Nicaragua has are absolutely unique and probably not found anywhere else. Herbs grown there as well as roots are different in size, color and taste to those from any other country. All this is what makes Nicaraguan cuisine so good and different. But always, delicious and different!
One must try out these dishes, learn about the Nicaraguan culture, see how both things go so close together. The mixing of recipes, of condiments and tastes and colors come from very old days, yet the freshness and color of those dishes will make you love them right away.
Nicaragua has a treasure in its dishes, in the way they prepare their vegetables, their meats, and it's not possible not to love them forever after you tried them out!
In http://www.foodofcentralamerica.com you can learn about some of the many exquisite recipes that you can find in the Nicaraguan and Central American food.
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