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Panama

Panama’s food is built around crossroads cuisine of culantro-scented sancocho, fried breakfasts, corvina ceviche, and coconut rice dishes. Look for Sancocho de gallina (free-range chicken soup with ñame and culantro; national dish), Hojaldre (fried dough eaten with eggs, cheese, or sausage) and Carimañola (yuca fritter stuffed with seasoned ground beef). Panama’s national dish: yard hen simmered with ñame and plenty of culantro, associated above all with the Azuero peninsula. This atlas has 33 Panama dishes catalogued below, from everyday cooking to food kept for festivals and special occasions.

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  • Raspao

    Shaved ice with fruit syrups and condensed milk. Ready in 20 min prep and 10 min cooking. 4 cups. A…

  • Ron Abuelo

    Aged Panamanian rum with vanilla and toffee notes, sipped neat. A wine & spirit recipe from Panama.

  • Saus

    Pigs’ feet pickled with lime, onion, cucumber and hot pepper. Ready in 40 min prep and 2 hr 30 min…

  • Sopa borracha

    Sponge cake drenched in rum and sugar syrup with prunes and raisins. Ready in 40 minutes prep and 35 minutes…

  • Tamal de olla

    Pot-baked corn tamale casserole with chicken and olives. Ready in 40 min prep and 1 hr 15 min cooking. 8…

  • Torrejitas de maíz nuevo

    Fritters of freshly ground young corn, fried and eaten with cheese. Ready in 25 minutes prep and 20 minutes cooking.…

  • Tulemasi

    Fish and plantain simmered in coconut milk, eaten with rice. Ready in 25 minutes prep and 45 minutes cooking. Serves…

  • Geisha coffee

    Delicate jasmine and bergamot coffee grown on Boquete’s volcanic slopes. Ready in 10 min prep and 4 min brew (plus…

  • Hojaldre

    Fried dough eaten with eggs, cheese, or sausage. Ready in 20 min prep and 20 min cooking. 8 pieces (4…

  • Seco con vaca

    Seco Herrerano poured over ice with milk, sometimes a little sugar. Ready in 2 min prep and none cooking. 1…