There are many typical dishes in Girardot but what stand out the most in this town are: the capable widower, the tamale, the mango biche, the cholado, the sancocho, those dishes highlight the town too much and are sold too much in the festivals that are held or on important dates we will give information about the dishes named above

THE WIDOWER OF CAPAZ

In departments of the Magdalena Medio region such as Tolima and Cundinamarca, it is called "Fish Widower", and legend has it that a woman, wife of a fisherman, was betrayed and in revenge, she killed her husband and the lover, then on the riverbank she took her own life; then the fear or ghost of this widow woman always appears to the fishermen of the Magdalena River who, to appease the fear, cook this delicious recipe on the banks of the river, without pots and taking what they have at hand, they make a firewood stove and make a bed of moist sand that they carefully line with banana leaves, to form a kind of pot in which they then place the cassava, banana, potato, cob and in some cases pumpkin, season it with salt, onion and any other type of herb, spice or food that improves the flavor and on this bed place the Capaz.

THE TAMMAL

In Colombia, the tamale is generally a dough of crushed dry corn or corn flour stuffed with meat and vegetables, usually wrapped in banana or bijao leaves, tied with pita and steamed. There are different shapes, they can be slightly spherical tied only by the upper end, which gives it the appearance of a bag, rectangular and flattened, cylindrical or oval. On the Coast, just like cakes, they are wrapped in bijao leaves, which add their characteristic flavor. In the Tolima region, its base is rice, and in addition to the meat, it has a boiled egg and yellow peas, the wrapper is made of banana.

Mango biche is a cannabis plant as exotic as its origin, it is a very powerful flowering variety from Colombia. This sativa-dominant regular seed is classified as a great producer and is a great champion in the contests of cannabis varieties contain approximately 65 calories, 0.5 grams of protein, 0.3 grams of fat, 17 grams of carbohydrates, 28 mg. vitamin C and 4000 IU of vitamin A. Green mango is very useful for treating gastrointestinal problems.

It will be recorded in history that this product initially created to alleviate hangovers would arrive in Cali at the end of the 1980s at the hands of the Bonillas, the Carabali and other families who moved to the city to set up the first businesses of cholado that had the Cali touch. The cholado or 'cholao' is a typical fruit salad from the department of Valle del Cauca and the department of Cauca. Its preparation is on a base of shaved ice, fruits, molasses of different flavors and condensed milk are added.

To speak of Sancocho is not only to speak of a Colombian dish, it is to speak of the culture of the country, of family outings, of the dish that our peasants share, of the gatherings around the pot where all the people share food and stories, in addition, of the perfect company after the holidays. Without hesitation, this is one of the foods that is traditionally the most recognized, in addition, there is a great variety of chicken, hen, beef, pork or fish, each with a similar preparation and with all the flavor of Colombians.