Baleadas | Honduran dish | Favorite food Challenge SheCodes

What are Baleadas?

Baleadas are a typical dish very popular in Honduras. A baleada is a variant of soft tacos with a few differences. It is a traditional Honduran food that is made from flour tortilla and folded in half like a taco with a variety of fillings inside. Almost all varieties of the dish have mashed fried red beans and crumbled cheese inside with other ingredients. It originates from the north coast of Honduras. It's made from a flour tortilla, refried beans, sour cream and grated cheese. Baleadas can be filled with anything you want, kind of like a burrito.

This are some of the many ways to eat baleadas:

A "Bealeada Sencilla" or Simple Baleada is the classic one with the common ingredients: the fluffy, thick, flour tortilla, refried red beans, sour cream and grated cheese.

The Baleada Mixta which includes scrambled eggs and all the classic ingredients, this one of the most popular orders.

If you want to go over the top, order a "Baleada con todo" which adds to the previous ingredients avocados and a protein of your choosing which can be chicken, beef, chorizo or pork meat.

Baleadas are found in every corner of the country as street food and in restaurants. You can eat them for any time of the day!

Fun facts about Baleadas

The Baleada name has a lot of myths. The most popular one comes from a lady that sold Baleadas on the streets and one day got involved in a shooting, getting hurt from a bullet, which is "bala" in Spanish. Once she got better en returned to her selling spot on the streets people started calling her the "baleada" meaning "the shot woman". 😅

Another myth comes from many years ago when the recipe was made from boiled beans wraped in the flour tortilla. Once you bite the tortilla the whole beans fall resembling bullets. With time the recipe changed the beans for refried, smashed beans, but the name stood.

Make your own baleada!

If you enjoy trying new recipes and improving your cooking skills. Check the above video and try to make your own baleada with home-made flour tortillas and enjoy!
If you want your baleadas like the ones in our home page, you can use this ingredient list:

For the flour tortillas

4 c flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 - 1 ¼ c milk or water, divided
¼ c butter, lard or oil, softened

For the baleadas

Re-fried red beans
Sour cream
Grated cheese (parmesan)
Scrambled eggs
Avocado 🥑

About Honduras

Before eating this amazing dish, I'll teach you a bit more about my country.

Honduras spans about 112,492 km2 and has a population exceeding 10 million. Its northern portions are part of the western Caribbean zone, as reflected in the area's demographics and culture. Honduras is known for its rich natural resources, including minerals, coffee, tropical fruit, and sugar cane, as well as for its growing textiles industry, which serves the international market.

White beaches fringed by the world's second-largest barrier reef, jungle-covered mountains cut by raftable white-water rivers and home to an astounding number of bird species, exquisite Maya ruins, colonial, cobblestone villages, fresh seafood grilled on the beaches, you can find all this and more in Honduras!