DISH RESEARCH · Street food
Baleada
A folded flour tortilla filled with refried beans, Honduran cheese and cream.
About Baleada
La Cooquette’s baleada sencilla is the Honduran flour-tortilla street food with a simple filling of refried beans, dry Honduran cheese and Honduran sour cream. The tortilla is folded around these three fillings.
The beans provide savoury substance, while the crumbly cheese brings dairy richness. Sour cream softens the combination, and the egg-and-lard tortilla contributes a rich flavour of its own.
The tortilla is soft and flexible, with browned patches from the skillet. Its folded shape holds the creamy beans and dairy filling together in a substantial handheld serving.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Egg, Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Baleada
La Cooquette’s Honduran baleada sencilla.
- Wheat flourBase
- LardCooking medium
- Whole eggBinder
- Baking sodaSeasoning
- WaterLiquid
- SaltSeasoning
- Refried beansFilling
- Honduran queso secoFillingIngredient page not linked
- Honduran sour creamFilling
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. List generic flour75 resolved by explicit same-source wheat identity48/51.
- Lard: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Whole egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed
- Baking soda: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual warm dough water77/91, no separate pan grease inferred.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method-only tortilla ingredient91.
- Refried beans: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Named prepared compound, exact bean species, fat and seasonings not supplied.
- Honduran queso seco: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Native dry crumbly cheese selected over cotija substitution; exact cheese identity/formula not verified to catalogue.
- Honduran sour cream: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Broader dairy sour-cream link; exact Honduran product unprovided.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Honduras
- HondurasCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Honduran Cuisine
- Honduran National CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.