Baleada

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Baleadas are one of Honduras's most original and popular foods. A baleada is a wheat flour tortilla, often quite thick, folded in half and filled with mashed fried beans. This is the no-frills baleada. People may also add other ingredients. The most common types of baleadas are the baleadas simple (simple baleada) which has crumbled cheese and sour cream. The other baleada is the baleada mixta (mixed baleada) which has same as the baleada simple but with an additional scrambled eggs. Many other people add sausage plantain, hot sauce, avocado, chicken, pork and chirmol which is diced tomato, onion and bell pepper. The big Honduran towns often have more than one restaurant that sells baleadas.

Baleadas Express is a popular Honduran fast food restaurant.

Honduran soccer player Edgar Alvarez stated once that baleadas are what make him fast.

[edit] History

There are two stories behind the baleada's name. The first one says that they are called baleadas since beans have a bullet shape and bullet in spanish is "bala" hence by adding the suffix "ada" it makes it baleada. The other story is that a woman used to make tortilla with beans and she was shot so every one use to say, "let's go eat at the baleada", as stated before, it comes from bala.