Guatemala

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Guatemala

5 recipes

Photograph of Pepián recado.

Pepián recado

The roasted chile, seed and vegetable sauce that thickens and colours Guatemalan pepián stew.

Guatemala · Traditional method
Condiments
Photograph of Pozol.
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Pozol

Pozol is lime-cooked maize ground to dough, shaped into balls, wrapped in banana leaves and fermented for days, then stirred into water as a sour drink in southeastern Mexico.

Chiapas
· Drinks
An illustrative still life of rinsed nixtamal kernels, freshly ground masa on a stone metate, and a plain tortilla; not a specific historical scene.

Nixtamal and masa

Whole maize cooked and steeped overnight in lime water, washed of its skins and excess lime, then ground into the moist dough used for tortillas.

Mexico · Traditional method
Grains and starches
A long strip of soft, lightly flour-dusted Guatemalan pan francés made of joined double-roll sections.

Pan francés guatemalteco

Pan francés guatemalteco is a soft yeast bread shaped as a long strip of joined double rolls and commonly served with dishes such as tamales colorados.

Guatemala · Modern method
· Grains and starches