What is commonly eaten in villages in Nicaragua?

Question

Do they eat a lot of meat? Or rice and beans?

Answer 1

We eat food. Our main staple is something we call gallopinto, which consists of red beans mixed and fried with rice, the Nicas is the Caribbean coast of the country cook it with coconut oil and add shredded coconut, its delicious.

As for rice, it is served with just about anything and everything, just as in Asia. We also have out typical and national dishes, some of these are baho (my favorite; its meat, prepared a certain way, with yuca [casava in english], maduros [plantains in english] and curtido [a type of salad]); gallopinto (fried beans and rice); vigoron (pork rinds and/or pork meat with yucca and curtido); Nacatamal (a tamal at least 5 times the size of any other Latin American tamal made with masa [corn dough] and contains tappers, bell peppers, rice, pork meat, potato, raisins, and a whole lot of other ingredients) it is popular in all of Latin America, we steam them in banana leaves.

Another thing commonly eaten is Churrasco, which is a thick cut of steak and it is served with chimmichurri sauce (our own and Argentina's recipe). Sea food is very common for cities or towns near water (we have a ton of lagoons, largest lake in Central America, 2nd largest lake in Latin America, the Pacific ocean, the Caribbean sea). The Chinese food here, for example, serves chow mein, fried rice and chop suey all with shrimp. Although much of the poor population is concentrated on the Caribbean coast, they are abound in fresh sea food since the majority of them live right near the water. I have noticed that in the Caribbean coast sea food is more popular than here in the Pacific coast, where we eat more meat than seafood. Also, rice is served with almost everything. Fried plantains (platanos) is also very common with just about ever dish, in the Caribbean coast coconut is extremely popular, coconut bread (delicious), shredded coconut, fried coconut, ect. ect.

Answer 2

No se.  It's probably a mix of Meat and rice.  When I live find Ecuador rice was served with every meal.  It was the only item that you could leave on your plate without insulting your host.  Everywhere I went in South America you could get a nice greasy steak - Goat mostly as carne and pollo are more caro (expensive).

If anyone offers you Qui (Guinea pig) watch out!  It’s a delicacy in Ecuador but it is pretty much just eating lard.  It can be a challenge to eat and a big insult to the host if you do not eat it.

Not sure this helps, but I thought I would give my 2 cents.