Caramelized Fry jacks

Not quite the fry jacks in Belize, but I tried... Next time I suggest that the sugar sprinkled on after they are fried.

3 c flour

1 1/2 tbsp baking powder

2 tsp sugar + sugar to cover tortilla

1 tsp salt

water

2 tbsp coconut oil  + coconut oil for frying

Mix together flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder well

add oil and mix well

add water until ingredients are wet but dough still sticks together and doesn't stick to you hands

knead until dough gets kind of elastic

pat out into a tortilla

cut in half

heat oil until almost smoking

cover tortilla with sugar (after doing it.. it's better if you do this step after frying)

place in oil until puffs up and is golden

yum yum!

In belize they make them without sugar and serve with refried beans and eggs.  They seem to puff better than mine. It's a work in progress!

Sweet pepper Quiche

Another Guatemalan trial with not many ingredients.

Ingredients:

7 packs of club crackers

1 stick butter

2 red sweet pepers

6 eggs

1 cup cream

salt

crunch up the saltine crackers with butter and water around the outside of the pan

Put pepper and onion in crust

Mix eggs, salt, pepper, and cream

pour over veggies

bake at 350 degrees until golden on top about 45 mins.

pepper

Pad Thai Guatemalan Style

It's really not Guatemalan style, it's just we didn't have any ingredients really. So I made it just with what we had and it actually tasted good.

Ingredients:

3 c cooked rice

2 garlic cloves

1 onion chopped

1 c chopped broccoli

2 carrots chopped

2 tbs ketchup

1/4 c soy sauce

2 tbsp mustard

3 tbsp peanut butter

1 tbsp vinegar

1 tsp hot sauce

parmesan as decoration

saute veggies until slightly softer but still crunchy.

Mix wet ingredients together

put cooked rice in pan

put in sauce

cook until everything looks mixed thoroughly

serve

Chuchitos

While I was in Santa Maria de Jesus, Guatemala, I helped make these with a Mayan family for the campesinos that were going to come and hopefully join a coffee cooperative. It was so much fun. Hard to understand. They went between speaking Kaqchikel and Spanish which I know only slightly. They gave me a traditional Mayan apron. It was so great!

Makes 140

Ingredients:

10 lbs Masa 

salt to taste

pepper to taste

8 Red sweet peppers 

6 tomatoes

4 green chilies

msg (yikes.. don't use that)

2 packets chicken bouillon

140 corn husks

140 pieces  of pork/chicken/carne

boil ground sweet peppers, tomatoes, green chilies, msg, chicken bouillon, salt, and pepper. Mix about 1/4 of Masa in boiled mixture

pat left over masa into tortillas

scoop tomato mixture onto tortilla, and make tortilla look like a taco

place in corn husk and wrap like the picture.

boil chuchitos for about 3-4 hours

Also good if you take it out of the corn husk and grill.

yumm... but don't eat local pork in Guatemala. pork = crazy rash and giardia... fun times!