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Panades

Name: Panades
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Belize
Ingredients: 200g Corn grits; 250ml Water; 1 can Canned tuna; 1 Tomato; 1/2 Onion; 1/2 Red Onion; 3 tbsp Vinegar; 1 Chili pepper; 1/2 tsp Achiote paste; 1 tsp Salt; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Half-moon corn turnovers filled with fish or beans, fried, and topped with pickled onion — a Belizean street food.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Panades are a Belizean street staple: corn dough is wrapped around fish (mainly tuna or shark) or beans, folded into half-moons, and fried. Pouring plenty of pickled onion and chili over them is the Belizean way. They're one of the 'big three' street snacks along with salbutes and garnaches.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a stall in a Belizean town square, fresh fried half-moon turnovers are doused with pickled onion and handed over on paper plates.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Corn grits 200g
Water 250ml
Canned tuna 1 can
Tomato 1
Onion 1/2
Red Onion 1/2
Vinegar 3 tbsp
Chili pepper 1
Achiote paste 1/2 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the corn grits with a little salt and boiling water and let cool.
Fry the tuna, chopped tomato and onion, achiote, and salt for the filling.
Roll the dough into balls, flatten thin between plastic wrap, add filling, and fold into half-moons.
Fry in 180°C oil until golden.
Toss sliced red onion and chili with vinegar and salt and pour generously over the top.

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