Top 10 Top 10 Snacks
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1. Pastelitos
Small but tasty pasties or turnovers filled with a savoury center of minced beef, chicken or cheese.
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2. Empanadas
A similar deep-fried turnover filled with meat or cheese but here it is made with yucca flour.
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3. Quipes
Another standard street snack, featuring Middle East-inspired cracked wheat rissoles stuffed with meat.
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4. Yaniqueques
A local distortion of Johnny Cakes, this version is a sort of fried round corn bread served hot.
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5. Chicharones
Deep-fried pieces of crunchy pork rind or crackling, sometimes chicken pieces are also used.
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6. Chimichurris
A more hearty snack of slices of pork cut from a joint and eaten in a sandwich.
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7. Batatas
Baked sweet potatoes are cooked over embers and scooped out of the skin. Can be eaten either hot or cold.
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8. Fritos Maduros
A Dominican version of fries, these are chunks of deep-fried ripe plantain, sprinkled with a little salt.
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9. Tostones
Fried plantains again, but of the unripe type and more savoury, fried once, flattened, and refried.
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10. Coconut Water
Drunk through a hole in the soft green coconut and sold almost everywhere, this is an incredibly refreshing drink to beat the heat.
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