Today we prepared and ate a traditional Maito de tilapia lunch. Making lunch started with a walk through the fields to gather ingredients. This is not quite what I expected when they said “fields”.
There were tons of banana trees.
Harvesting the yuca involved pulling it straight out of the ground.
This is the raw yuca.
These are the bananas.
This is the traditional way to carry the food, in a basket hanging off of the back of your head.
This is Matt preparing the tilapia in a leaf.
You put lots of salt on the fish, then wrap and tie the leaf.
Then you put them over a fire to roast.
It was very delicious.
