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Nuegados is a traditional plate from many countries in Latin America and many villages in La Mancha, Spain such as Valdepeñas, Membrilla and La Solana. Nuégados are "nothing more than fried dumplings coated with a sweet sugar cane sauce" [ 1 ] or honey in La Mancha.
Chilate is a drink native to Central America, prepared from chile, roasted corn and cocoa and is usually that add anise, pepper, ginger and cinnamon. The chilate is served hot and is taken with typical sweets like dulce de camote , dulce de platano or nuegados in El Salvador .
Tascalate (alternative spelling Tazcalate) is a chocolate drink made from a mixture of roasted maize, roasted cocoa bean, ground pine nuts, achiote and sugar or panela, very common in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
Arroz con leche, rice pudding flavoured with anise seed, star anise, or raisins; Empanadas de platano, torpedo-shaped dumplings of dough made from very ripe plantains, filled with vanilla custard, fried, then rolled in sugar; The dulce de leche of El Salvador has a soft, crumbly texture, with an almost crystallized form.
Yuca frita con chicharrón is deep-fried yuca and served with curtido (a pickled cabbage, onion and carrot topping) and pork rinds or pepesquitas (fried baby sardines). The cassava is sometimes served boiled instead of fried. Cassava is also used in nuegados (a fried or baked patty made of grated cassava and served with sugar cane syrup).
Their food is based mainly on corn and beans. Corn is prepared in different ways: as a drink, like chilate, pozol, sweet atole, and sour atole (chuco), tortillas, tamales, totoposte and also alcoholic drinks like chicha. Chʼortiʼ religion is based on admiring and adoring nature, through rituals dedicated to the gods of the Earth and the Wind.
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In the 19th century, a Roman Catholic missionary, Manuel Jesús de Subirian, encouraged many Jicaque to assimilate into mainstream culture, settle in villages, and grow maize.