Costa Rican cuisine is known for being tasty, yet fairly mild, with high reliance on fresh [fruit]s and vegetables. The main staple, known as Gallo Pinto, consists of rice and black beans, which in many households is eaten at all three meals during the day. A plate of vegetables Vegetable is a culinary term which generally refers to an edible part of a plant. ... For other uses, see Rice (disambiguation). ... Black bean can mean: The black turtle bean, a small, black variety of the common bean especially popular in Latin American cuisine Douchi, a kind of fermented soybean especially popular in the cuisine of China The black gram Any black-colored variety of bean; beans which include black-colored varieties...

A typical Costa Rican Breakfast consisting of gallo pinto, fried plantains, an egg, and orange juice

Gallo Pinto is also known in some Southern Areas of Costa Rica as Burra, though still recognized the name is rarely used as it is mostly referred to as Gallo Pinto. Also, Costa Rican Gallo Pinto is made with black beans, while Nicaraguans use red beans traditionally. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Red bean can mean: Azuki bean (Vigna angularis), most common in East Asia Rice bean (Vigna umbellata) Any of various red varieties of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), including the kidney bean, Honduran red bean, and Salvadoran red bean This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with...

For lunch, the traditional national dish is called a casado. It again consists of rice and beans, though this time they are served side by side instead of mixed. There will generally be some type of meat (carne asada, fish, pork chop or chicken) and a salad to round out the dish. There may also be some extras like fried [plantain]s, a slice of white cheese, and/or corn tortillas in accompaniment. A Casado is a typical Costa Rican meal consisting of rice, beans, fried plantain bannanas, salad and an entree of choice that may include chicken, beef, pork, and others. ... Carne asada is a dish, literally meaning grilled meat, it is one of the most popular varieties of Mexican food, more commonly in the Northern parts of Mexico, in the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. ... Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals. ... Two cooked flour tortillas. ...

Fresh vegetables are a primary ingredient in most main dishes, and members of the squash family are particularly common. These include varieties such as zucchini, zapallo, chayote, and ayote. Potato, onion, and red pepper are other common ingredients. Species - hubbard squash, buttercup squash - cushaw squash - butternut squash - most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash References: ITIS 22365 2002-11-06 Hortus Third Squashes are four species of the genus Cucurbita, also called pumpkins and marrows depending on variety or the nationality of the speaker. ... Binomial name L. Zucchini (IPA: , in North American and Australian English) or courgette (IPA: , in New Zealand and British English) is a small summer squash. ... Binomial name (Jacq. ... For other uses, see Potato (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Onion (disambiguation). ... Species C. annuum (incl. ...

A typical Costa Rican Dinner consisting of egg on chicken with rice and beans, vegetables, fried plantain, and cooked bananas

Coffee and banana are the two main agricultural exports of the country and also form part of the local cuisine. Coffee is usually served at breakfast and during traditional coffee breaks in the afternoon, usually around 3:00pm. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2592x1944, 1377 KB) A Costa Rican dinner; egg on chicken with rice and beans, vegtables, fried plantain, and cooked bananas. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2592x1944, 1377 KB) A Costa Rican dinner; egg on chicken with rice and beans, vegtables, fried plantain, and cooked bananas. ... A cup of coffee. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The Plantain, a larger member of the banana family, is another commonly used fruit and can be served in a variety of ways. Ripe plantains have a sweet flavor, and can be fried in butter or baked in a honey or a sugar-based sauce. Green (unripe) plantains are boiled in soups or can be cooked, mashed into small round cakes and fried to make "patacones". Sweet corn dishes are common traditional meals like pozole (corn soup), chorreadas (corn pancakes), etc. Butter is commonly sold in sticks (pictured) or blocks, and frequently served with the use of a butter knife. ... A jar of honey, shown with a wooden honey server and scones/biscuits. ... Magnification of grains of sugar, showing their monoclinic hemihedral crystalline structure. ... Sweetcorn (or sweet corn, also known as sugar corn), is a hybridized variety of maize (Zea mays), specifically bred to increase the sugar content. ...

Other Costa Rican food staples include corn tortillas, white cheese and picadillos. Tortillas are used to accompany most meals. Ticos will often fill their tortillas with whatever they are eating and eat it in the form of a gallo [direct translation: rooster, however, it resembles a soft Mexican taco]. White cheese is non-processed cheese that is made by adding salt to milk in production. Picadillos are meat and vegetable combinations where one or more vegetables are diced, mixed with beef and garnished with spices. Common vegetables used in picadillos are potatoes, green beans, squash, ayote, chayote and arracache. Often, picadillos are eaten in the form of gallos. Tico is a colloquial name for the natives of Costa Rica. ... Potatoe is an archaic spelling of the word potato as a variant form, with the most recent usage cited from 1880: She found the parson in his garden. ... Green common beans on the plant Green beans are the unripe fruits of any kind of bean, including the yardlong bean, the hyacinth bean, the pea, the winged bean, the carper (vellum) bean, and especially the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), whose pods are also usually called string beans in the...

Drinks

The traditional breakfast drink, besides coffee, is called agua dulce ("sweet water") and is made from "tapa de dulce". Sugar cane juice is boiled down in traditional "trapiches" and put to solidify in molds in the form of conical sections with the top cut off called tapas which can literally be translated into "lids". Then some of this tapa is scraped off and dissolved into boiling water or milk to make the sweet delicious "agua dulce". A cup of coffee. ... Impact from a water drop causes an upward rebound jet surrounded by circular capillary waves. ...

The traditional drinks for lunch are called refrescos or "frescos" for short, and consist of liquified fruits diluted in either water or milk and sweetened to taste. They come in many varieties such as melon, blackberry, strawberry, watermelon, mango, tamarind, passion fruit, guanabana and cas. Melon is a term used for various members of the Cucurbitaceae family with fleshy fruits, or may specify the typically sweet-fruiting members, muskmelon and watermelon. ... The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services. ... Species 20+ species; see text The strawberry (Fragaria) is a genus of plants in the family Rosaceae and the fruit of these plants. ... For the political designation, see Eco-socialism. ... Species About 35 species, including: Mangifera altissima Mangifera applanata Mangifera caesia Mangifera camptosperma Mangifera casturi Mangifera decandra Mangifera foetida Mangifera gedebe Mangifera griffithii Mangifera indica Mangifera kemanga Mangifera laurina Mangifera longipes Mangifera macrocarpa Mangifera mekongensis Mangifera odorata Mangifera pajang Mangifera pentandra Mangifera persiciformis Mangifera quadrifida Mangifera siamensis Mangifera similis Mangifera... Binomial name Tamarindus indica L. This article refers to the tree – for other uses see Tamarindo (disambiguation). ... The fruit of Passiflora edulis Passion fruit (Portuguese: Maracuj ) comes from passion flower vines, plants of the genus Passiflora, native to tropical and sub-tropical America. ... Binominal name Annona muricata The soursop or guanabana (Annona muricata L.) is a broadleaf flowering evergreen tree native to the South American country of Brazil and a distant relative of the pawpaw. ... Cas may be Calcium sulfide, the chemical compound with the formula CaS Cas (people), an ancient people Cassiopeia (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation Cas, an acid tasting type of guava that grows in Costa Rica, psidium friedrichsthalium. ...

Another popular drink is known as a "Granizado", a slush drink made of finely shaved ice and flavored syrup. The most popular flavor is "Kola." This is not the cola usually associated with carbonated soda but a fruity cherry savored syrup. It is sometimes served with evaporated/condensed milk on top depending on the preference of the drinker. Slush is partly melted snow and ice. ... Slush is mixture of water, flavoured syrup, and blended ice. ... In cooking, a syrup (from Arabic شراب sharab, beverage, via Latin siropus) is a thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, but showing little tendency to deposit crystals. ... “Cherry tree” redirects here. ...

The national liquor of Costa Rica is made from sugar cane and is called Guaro. The primary producer of Guaro is Cacique and the liquor is similar to rum. Ticos drink Guaro as a shot or mixed with juice or soda. The cost of Guaro is very cheap compared to the cerveza (beer) in Costa Rica which is run by a monopoly. Imperial is the most popular and is an American style lager; the Pilsen is a bohemian style pilsner; and Bavaria is offered in Light, Dark or Gold. The Dutch beer, Heineken, is also produced in Costa Rica but tastes a little different. Species Ref: ITIS 42058 as of 2004-05-05 Sugarcane is one of six species of a tall tropical southeast Asian grass (Family Poaceae) having stout fibrous jointed stalks whose sap at one time was the primary source of sugar. ... Guaro is the popular name for the Larenses, inhabitants of Lara State, in central west Venezuela. ... Heineken (or Heineken Brouwerijen) is a Dutch beer brewer, established in 1863 when Gerard Adriaan Heineken purchased a brewery in Amsterdam. ...

External links

• Cacique Guaro
• List of Traditional Costa Rican Restaurants
• Palmito Costa Rican Cuisine located in Chicago