What is the National food of the Dominican Republic? Please answer.?!
Answers: What is the National food of the Dominican Republic?
National dish of the Dominican Republic:
As part of the national dish of rice and beans, rice was the Dominican Republic's most important food crop in the late 1980s.Rice production expanded significantly in the post-Trujillo era, and by late 1979 the country had achieved self-sufficiency for the first time.
The other principal grains and cereals consumed in the Dominican Republic included corn (or maize), sorghum, and imported wheat. Corn, native to the island, performed better than many food crops.
Other major food crops included starchy staples such as plantains and an assortment of tubers. Dominicans consumed large quantities of plantains, usually fried, because of their abundance, sweet taste, and low cost.
Dominicans also grew an assortment of fruits, vegetables, spices, and other foods. These included bananas, peanuts, guava, tamarind, passion fruit, soursop, coconut, tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, cabbage, scallions, cilantro, onions, and garlic.
The most popular national dish is "la Bandera" the flag, which is a combination of rice, red beans, stewed meat (usually goat), salad and fried plantains. Other mainstays are Comida Criolla which is a stewed chicken dish served with rice and beans. The only true Taino dishes that are still common are Casabe - a flat bread made from the poisonous yuca plant. The plant is shredded, soaked and pressed to have the poisonous components of the plant removed. Casava, another Taino dish, is a type of fritter that is stuffed with meat, chicken or fish.
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It is Sancocho. It is a pork and seafood stew with root vegetables.
Or La Bandera -- white rice, red beans, green tostones (plantain), with meats and salad.