Pega What?!?

If I had to choose one Panamanian dish to eat for the remainder of my stay in Panama it would be Pega Barba. Pega Barba is one of those dishes that is served as part of a feast and usually cooked in amounts meant to serve 20 or more. The best description I can come up with is solid chicken soup. It's made by shaving yucca down to its corazon (heart) and the boiling the yucca until it becomes a paste or glue (pega.) While the pega is cooking a guisao or chicken stew is made using onions, peppers, and whatever other vegetables they care to use. The stew broth is then added to the pega, and cooked until thouroghly mixed. Then served with the chicken on top, and often accompanied with rice and/or noodles. It's delicious and has that filling "stick to your ribs" property.

PS I'll try to get a picture next time it's made.