This document recommends several traditional Caribbean dishes from Costa Rica to try. Pan bon is a sweet black bread made with dried fruit, nuts, butter, egg whites and vanilla. Rice and beans is a staple dish cooked with coconut and often served with fish. Rondon is a soup that varies widely as it is made with whatever ingredients are available but always includes seafood. Pati is a spicy meat pie shaped like a turnover. Ackee and saltfish is a breakfast dish made of salted cod sautéed with boiled ackee, peppers, tomatoes and spices. Contact information is provided for reservations at a hotel serving these Costa Rican Caribbean specialties.

1. Caribbean Cuisine from Costa Rica you must try
ARE YOU HUNGRY? HERE SOME CARIBBEAN CUISINE FROM COST
RICA YOU MUST TRY.

2. Pan Bon
 This black bread is made with flour, dried fruit, walnuts, butter, egg
whites, vanilla, hibiscus seed, honey and sugar.

3. Rice and Beans
 Rice and Beans is a typical Caribbean dish. In Costa Rica you will
find it on the Caribbean slope, in places like Puerto Viejo de
Talamanca. It is rather simple to prepare. Basically, it is very similar to
Gallo Pinto, but is cooked with coconut.
 Typically, this dish is prepared with red beans when served with fish.

4. Rondón
 Rondon is a traditional Caribbean dish that gets its name from the
phrase, “Rundown,” as in, the cook of the home prepares a soup
with whatever they were able to track down or forage that day,
whether it was in the backyard, a neighbors coconut tree, or the
bounty of the sea. For this reason, there are many variations on the
dish, there can be no wrongs.

5. Patí
 A spicy meat pie in the shape of a turnover

6. Ackee
 Ackee and saltfish is a traditional Caribbean dish.
 To prepare the dish, salt cod (salt fish should be soaked overnight to eliminate most of
the salt) is sautéed with boiled ackee, onions, Scotch Bonnet peppers (optional),
tomatoes, and spices, such as black pepper and pimiento. It can be garnished with
bacon and tomatoes, and is usually served as breakfast or dinner alongside
breadfruit, hard dough bread, dumplings, fried plantain, or boiled green bananas.

7. Contact US
 Reservations Center Phone: (506) 2750-3096 | 2750-3103 Hotel
Phone: (506) 2750 0501
E-Mail: reservations@lecameleonhotel.com
www.lecameleonhotel.com