Gallo Pinto Recipes

"Gallo Pinto" is a typical Costa Rican breakfast dish. It is generally accompanied by fried eggs on top, meat and sometimes with a side of fried ripe plantain (Platano Maduro).

A somewhat healthier take on this Costa Rican jack-of-all trades dish. I've substituted brown rice for the traditional white rice.

This versatile dish can be matched with eggs, queso blanco, and tortillas for a heartly breakfast. It can also serve as the base for lunches or dinners. In fact, I often eat it alone with a berry smoothie as a post run recover meal because of it's healthy balance of carbs and protein.

You can't go anywhere in Costa Rica without eating gallo pinto. Even Burger King sells it for breakfast!

A healthy rice & bean dish

Tradicional Costa Rican breakfast
Can be made with other kinds of beans, but the "tradición" in Costa Rica is with black beans

A typical Costa Rican dish eaten at any meal.

This is a very common dish in Costa Rica we eat it as Breakfast acompanied with Eggs and tortillas and shour cream and at times a piece of some kind of meat. It is very tasty!

Black Beans and Brown Rice with Parsley and Sauteed Onions.

Costa Rica breakfast staple...energy for the day

My take on a popular Costa Rican traditional breakfast. When we visit, we quit asking what was for breakfast, lunch or dinner. The answer was always "Beans and rice, and rice and beans!" As many mommas there are in the world, that's how many versions of Gallo Pinto exist!
If you're a cilantro hater feel free to use green onions instead. The bit of bright green at the end, whether cilantro or green onion, really adds to the dish.

Gallo Pinto made Costa Rican Style

Traditional Costa Rican breakfast, lunch or dinner. Yum!

vegetarian meal, ethnic

I sometimes sub in other beans, with their sauce. Also use different greens sometimes, like cabbage or kale.

Lower carb version of my favourite rice dish.

An original recipe from Costa Rico