FISH MAITO
If you visit the Ecuadorian Amazon, you should
try the delicious traditional food such as maito. This is a typical food
prepared with tilapia, a kip of fish. the maito is a Quechua word meaning
involved, this preparation comes from ancient Caribbean cuisine, where a lot of
preparations are wrapped in local leaves.
People often eat this dish served with cassava,
banana cooked, onion and tomato sauce, can be found in restaurants, in cities,
in towns or villages in the Ecuadorian jungle.
There are a variety of Maitos these dishes are made of
flesh, paca, agouti and fish, these dishes
consist of these meats wrapped in sheets
or bijao platanillo
(similar to banana
leaf) then place it on the stove.
