Recipes · Costa Rica

Cassava croquettes stuffed with cheese and fried until crisp, a fixture of Costa Rican roadside sodas.

Large fresh corn pancakes cooked in a pan and served with sour cream, breakfast across the Costa Rican countryside.

Creamy rice baked with hearts of palm under a cheese crust, a Costa Rican party dish born of Pacific palm groves.

The Costa Rican plate lunch, rice and black beans gathered around a fried ripe plantain and a fried egg.

Costa Rica's breakfast of choice: day-old rice tossed with black beans, onion, sweet pepper and tangy Lizano sauce.

Rice and beans, the dish everyone invented
Why the same rice and pulse pairing turns up on every continent, and what each kitchen added to it on its own.

Costa Rica