Zulia people eat fried over fried, they prefer coconut and banana, and flavors that are little seen in the rest of the country... why do they eat so? There are reasons and it has a lot to do with foreign influence in that state.
The Zulia table has a wide recipe book, in which the protagonists: the banana. However, there is much more complexity in the preparations and in your pantry.
The cuisine of the beloved sunland offers a completely different cuisine from the rest of the country.
These differences include different names for ingredients such as onoto, known as achiote, and especially the tradition of “fritangas”, which is very present in public and private dinners.
Banana, which arrived in Maracaibo from the ports of South Lake, is the ingredient with the greatest presence in gastronomy.
He is a faithful companion at breakfast, lunch or dinner, indiscriminately by social class, whether baked, roasted, wrapped, in cake or in muffins. It is eaten baked, roasted, painted and ripe. It is served in many ways, but the favorite ones are stuffed with cheese, roasted or baked.
The banana is so faithful that when it is very ripe, it becomes a dessert: banana-sweet or mature jam.
Other banana preparations are cake, muffins, soup, arepas, yoyo's (a banana and cheese spiral) and, of course, manioc. #Comocomenloszulianos