Common Nicaraguan Foods and How to Say them in Spanish

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Gallo Pinto – rice and beans cooked together
Vigoron – cabbage salad with yucca and pork rinds
Tostones – thick fried green plantains
Tostones con queso – tostones with fried white cheese
Tajadas – thin, crispy strips of deep fried plantain
Nacatamal – banana leaves filled with meat and corn mealHuevos – eggs
Carne/Res – beef
Churrasco – grilled steak
Filete Jalapeno -- steak in a creamy jalapeno pepper sauce
Chuleta – pork chop
Pescado – fish
Dorado – Mahi Mahi
Pargo – snapper
Langosta – lobster
Camarones -- shrimp
Pollo – chicken
Mariscos -- seafood
Pescado or Pollo entero – whole fish or chicken
Queso – cheese
Sopa – soup
Ceviche – raw fish or seafood marinated in lime juice
Pan – bread
Hielo – ice
Arroz – rice

Food Preparations
Desmenuzada – shredded and stewed meat
A la plancha – pan fried and sometimes served on a hot iron skillet
Empanizado – breaded
Frito – fried
Al vino – with wine sauce
Rostizado -- roasted
Al ajillo – in garlic sauce
Al vapor – steamed
Revueltos – scrambled (eggs)
Asado – grilled on an open flame