El Sur: Especialidades de Tabasco

The cuisine of Tabasco is mysterious because of the cultural collision
between Mayans, Mexicans, and Catalonians, who speak their own version
of Spanish

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Amashito (chile muy pequeno)
Very small chile

Anona (chirimoya)
Cheremoya fruit

Bacal (olote de maiz)
Corn on the cob

Barbacoa de pescado, o Petze
Barbecued fish, or (a word that means "hair cut" in an extinct Mayan
dialect?)

Butifarras
Catalan sausages made of raw pork and spices

Capon (puerco castrado)
Castrated pig

Carne salada con chaya (cactaceas)
Salted meat with Mayan chay leaves (cacti) (tree spinach)

Chanchamitos en salsa (tamales cilindricos envuelto en hoja de maiz)
Mayan chicken tamales in sauce (cylindrical tamales rolled in corn
husks)

Chegua (maiz cocido)
Cooked corn

Chile Amash
A very small chile

Chinin (fruta comestible parecida al aguacate)
Avocado-like fruit

Chiquiguao (tortuga lagarto)
Alligator turtle

Chirmol de Cangrejo
Crab in a spicy stew

Chucumite (robalo pequeno)
Small sea bass

Colcobosh (cacao seco en la mata)
Dried cacao in the trees?

Cocteles de diversos mariscos
Seafood cocktails

Cuijinicuil (fruta leguminosa con forma de vaina)
Pod shaped legume

Cuino (cerdo muy gordo)
Very fat pig

Empanadas de camaron
Shrimp turnovers

Empanadas de Minilla
Fish turnovers

El que bebe (algun liquido para tomar)
Mother's milk?

Empeya (grasa de puerco, gordura)
Pork fat

Frijoles de Tabasco
Tabasco style Beans

Frijoles Negros con Cerdo Salado
Black beans with pork and pork skin. Served hot with white rice and
radish, coriander, onion, chili, lemon and salt

Gallina en sangre
Skirt steak in blood

Guao (tortuga mordedora)
Snapping turtle

Guao relleno o asado
Stuffed or roasted snapping turtle

Guineo (platano dulce)
Sweet plantain

Hicotea en estofado
Stewed painted turtle

Hicotea lampreada o en sangre
River turtle lampreada? or in blood

Huliche (Comida indígena, masa con carne de pavo)
Masa with turkey

Iguana Guisada
Iguana Stew

Jaiba Rellena
Stuffed crab

Joloche (hoja de maiz)
Corn husk

Jueche (armadillo) en adobo
Armadillo in spicy sauce

Jujo (fruta regional)
A regional fruit

Maneas (tamales grandes sin color, con Chipiln)
Large, colorless tamales with chipilin leaves

Momo
Hoja santa

Mondongo en Ajiaco
Tripe soup in chile sauce

Mone de Cerdo
Smoked pork, aka "monkey meat"

Nuegano (pan rojo en forma de bola)
Red bread in the shape of a ball

Ostion ahumado o en escabeche
Smoked or pickled oysters

Ostion al tapesco o relleno
Oysters "tapas style"? or stuffed

Pato en chirmol
Duck in chile sauce

Pejelagarto Asado
Grilled garfish with a special flavor, with chili,
"amashito"(condiment) and lemon.

Pejelagarto en Chirmol
Garfish in a spicy stew

Pescado en caldo
Fish in broth

Pescado de mone
Monkfish

Pescado Sudado
Steamed sea bream with salt and pepper covered with "momo" leaves
(regional plant)

Pigua al Mojo de Ajo
River shrimp in garlic sauce

Pijije y pato de monte en pipian
Pijije? and mountain duck in pumpkin seed mole

Piripollo (pastel de pollo)
Chicken pot pie?

Pishcao (maiz cocido)
Cooked corn

Pochitoque (tortuga de caja)
Box turtle

Pochitoque en Verde
Box turtle in green sauce, served as an "appetizer"

Poste de Pescado
Sun dried fish

Poxe (guisado de pescado con hoja de momo)
Fish stew with hoja santa

Puchero de Res
Beef stew

Queque (galleta dura en forma de estrella o flor)
Star or flower-shaped hard cookie

Queso Tabasqueno
Tabasco cheese

Robalo a la Tabasquena
Sea bass stuffed with shrimps, octopus, and squid. Seasoned with
orange juice and baked. Served with white rice, "chaya" leaves and
green banana

Shote (caracol de rio)
River snail

Sisgua
Mexican corn pie, made with tender kernels of corn, milk, eggs, cheese

Sopa de Platano Verde
Green plaintain (or green banana) soup

Sote en Verde o en Colorado
Sote? in green or red sauce

Tamales de Chipilin
Tamales filled with chipilin leaves or wrapped in chipilin leaves

Tamales de Frijol
Tamales filled with beans

Tamalitos de chipilin

Tamalitos de maiz nuevo

Tamalitos de pejelagarto

Totopostes
Totopos

Torta de Iguana
Typical dish from Tabasco prepared with iguana, parsley, chili, onion
and eggs. It is baked in a banana leaf.

Tortilla de Ajo
Garlic tortilla with whatever else you'd like on it

Tortillas al mojo de ajo o rellenas de mariscos
Tortillas in garlic sauce or stuufed with seafood

Tortillas de frijol, yuca o platano
Tortillas filled with beans, cassava, or plantain

Tortillas de maiz nuevo
Tortillas of new corn

Tortuga en Sangre o Verde
Sea turtle in blood or green sauce

Tepezcuintle Adobado
Aztec dog in spicy sauce

Ubre asada
Roast udder

Yagual (canasto que se coloca sobre el fogón para ahumar comida)
Basket placed over the fire to smoke food

Zumuque (tamal sin carne)
Meatless tamale

Postres:
Desserts:

Avena con Cacao
Oats with cocoa

Blanquillas
Eggs?

Bunuelos de Arroz con Miel de Higo
Rice bunuelos with honey of fig

Bunuelos de Platano
Plantain or banana bunuelos

Bunuelos de Rodilla con Azucar

Calabazate
Pumpkin

Dulce de Calabaza
Pumpkin sweet

Dulce de Camote
Sweet potato sweet

Dulce de Chigua (tipo de calabaza, cuya pepita se usa para preparar
pipián)
Chigua is a type of pumpkin, whose seeds are used to make pipian mole

Dulce de Cocoyol
The meat of miniature coconuts is boiled with spices, cinnamon and
water to make a sweet syrup

Dulce de Huapaque
?

Dulce de Limon Real
Eoyal lemon sweet

Dulce de Nance (Nanche)
Byrsonima crassifolia is a tropical tree that produces the small
yellow orange fruit commonly called "nance", AKA changugu, chi, nance
agrio, nanche, nanchi, nancen, nanche de perro, nananche, and nantzin.
Nance is boiled in water with sugar to make
Dulce de Nance, but it also appears in other Mexican cooking, such as
chicken stew, and it can be fermented to make an alcoholic beverage.


Dulce de Grosella
Gooseberry dessert

Dulce de Guapague (Guapacque)
Bittersweet candy made with "guapaque" (fruit) with brown sugar

Dulce de Papaya-Zapote (Mamey)
This fruit is also known as "mamey", mixed with fig and honey.

Empanadas de Queso con Azucar
Cheese turnovers with sugar

Leche quemada
Milk and sugar, caramelized

Limones rellenos
Stuffed lemons

Marquezote
Sweet bread

Merengues de guanabana
Guava meringues

Nance en Licor

Orejemico (dulce de papaya tierna)
Sweet made of tender papaya

Orejas de Mico
Ears of papaya

Pan de Platano
Banana bread made with butter, flour, vanilla and bananas, sprinkled
with sugar

Panetelas
Layer cakes with various fruits and frosting or powdered sugar on top

Pan de huevo
Egg bread

Papin
Something cooked in a pressure cooker?

Pataste (cacao corriente de sabor agridulce)
Cacao running of sweet and sour flavor

Platano asado
Roasted banana or plantain

Platano verde machacado
Mashed green banana or plantain

Torrejas de yuca
Fried slices of yuca

Tortas de Platano
Plantain or banana cakes?

Torta de Elote
Mexican corn pie, made with fresh corn kernels or canned cream of
corn, eggs, milk, cream, flour

Turulete
?

Tortilla de Coco
"Little tart", made of coconut and brown sugar, baked for an hour

Tostadas de platano verde frito
Fried green banana (or plantain?) tostadas

Salsa borracha
Drunken sauce

Zizgua
?

Bebidas:
Drinks:

Agua de matali

Atole Agrio
Made with fermented corn boiled with brown sugar.

Balche
Non-alcoholic "atole" (thick maize drink) made from the bark from a
regional tree. "Balche" bark is fermented and sweet with honey or
anise. For the ancient Mayas, it was a ritual beverage. Today, it is a
regional drink of Quintana Roo, Yucatan and Tabasco. The Chontales, an
ethnic group from the State of Tabasco, offers balche to the Earth, to
the mountains and to the goblins, who take care of their corn crops
and domestic animals.

Cacaotada
Something made with cacao

Chocolate
Can be prepared with water or milk

Chorote
Refreshing drink made with corn, salt, and cacao. Served in a bowl

Conserva de torno largo, Nacajuca, Jalpa
Various prserved fruits

Guarapo
Sugarcane juice, corn, "pulque" (distilled spirit from cactus) and
honey. Traditional drink of Veracruz and Tabasco.

Iliztle
Alcoholic beverage made with sugarcane or grapes, peach and pears.
This is a domestic drink sometimes used for rituals.

Manjar
A treat, whatever it is

Mistela
?

Pinol (harina de maiz)
Corn flour

Pozol
Prepared with "nixtamal" (corn flour), cacao and water.

Pozol fresco
Cool pozol

Pozol con Pixte
A mixture of toasted corn, water, and "pixte" (red sapodilla seed).

Polvillo de Maiz
Roasted white corn, ground to a fine powder, sometimes eaten with
cinnamon for Lent

Refrescos de frutas, tales como: Uspi, mango, guineos, anonas, chinín,
jujo, macal, yuca, camote, mamey, huapaque, maranon, aguacate,
cuijinicuil, pan de sopa, melocoton, pibas, caimito, platanos,
naranjas, toronjas, grosellas, chicozapote, zapote, ciruelas, nance,
jonduras, capulín, etc.
Various soft drinks

Refresco de guanabana
Guava soft drink

Refresco de naranja agria
Bitter orange soft drink

Refresco de pitahaya

Silbache
?

Tanchuca
Boiled beverage made of anisette, corn and chocolate. Traditional in
Yucatan and Tabasco

Verdin
Green liquor