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Tapado Olanchano and Tapado Garífuna

Tapado

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⚠ TWO DIFFERENT DISHES SHARING A NAME, AND THIS SYSTEM KEEPS THEM APART. TAPADO GARÍFUNA (tapou) on the Caribbean coast is seafood — fish, shrimp, crab, sometimes conch — with green and ripe plantain, cassava, coconut milk and culantro, layered in the pot and left covered, which is what the name means. TAPADO OLANCHANO in the eastern interior is a beef dish: salted or smoked beef with plantain, yuca and vegetables, no coconut, no sea. ⚠ AND NEITHER IS THE GUATEMALAN TAPADO of Lívingston, nor the Colombian, Salvadoran or Mexican dishes of the same name; the name is simply the Spanish for "covered" and it has been applied independently. Disambiguation here is by GEOGRAPHY AND INGREDIENTS, not by name.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Garifuna community documented

Languages: Spanish, Garifuna

What is recorded

  • Tapado garífuna (tapou) is a coconut-milk seafood preparation of the Caribbean coast; tapado olanchano is a beef, plantain and cassava dish of the eastern interior containing no coconut. They are recorded as two dishes sharing a name. Neither is merged with the Guatemalan tapado of Lívingston or with similarly named dishes elsewhere in Latin America; disambiguation is by geography and ingredients. documented

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