Baleada

Consisting of a thick wheat flour tortilla filled with mashed fried beans and optionally, various other ingredients such as cheese, eggs, avocados, hot sauce, and Honduran-style sour cream known as mantequilla, Baleada is one of the most famous Honduran dishes.

It is said that baleada had its root in La Ceiba, on the northern coast. Two theories is being told about the origin of the name baleada, one says that it got it name after the external similarities between beans and bullets (bala in Spanish). Meanwhile, some others say that a tortilla maker was shot with several bullets, but then recovered, and began to make tortillas again. Hence, the workers gradually used to say they are going to the baleada (the shot woman).

In spite of the correct theory, baleada is currently among the most loved and low-priced street food items in Honduras that visitors should try.