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Tapado

Name: Tapado
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Honduras
Ingredients: 2 White Fish Fillet; 8 Shrimp; 400ml Coconut milk; 2 Green banana; 2 Potato; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 1/2 Red bell pepper; A pinch Cilantro; 400ml Water; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper

Soup

⏱ 50 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Seafood, green banana, and cassava simmered in coconut milk — a traditional pot of the Garifuna people.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tapado is a traditional dish of the Afro-Caribbean Garifuna people living on Honduras's Caribbean coast: fish, shrimp, and crab are simmered with green banana and cassava in coconut milk. Garifuna language, dance, and music are on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list, and tapado represents their rich food culture.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Garifuna village on Honduras's Caribbean coast, a big pot hangs in a kitchen in the shade of palms as coconut-scented seafood stew bubbles away.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

White Fish Fillet 2
Shrimp 8
Coconut milk 400ml
Green banana 2
Potato 2
Onion 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Red bell pepper 1/2
Cilantro A pinch
Water 400ml
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Simmer water, chopped onion, garlic, and bell pepper in a pot for 5 minutes.
Add the peeled, cut green bananas and potatoes and simmer 15 minutes.
Add the coconut milk and, when it boils, add the bite-size fish and shrimp.
Simmer on low for 8 minutes so the fish doesn't break up.
Season with salt and pepper and scatter with cilantro.

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