Mexican avocado ice pops: Paletas de aguacate
Here's a creamy texture without dairy. These delicious Mexican avocado ice pops are adapted from My Sweet Mexico by Fany Gerson.
Ingredients
1 cup water
½ cup sugar
2 small, ripe avo...
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Mexican avocado lime pie: Pay de aguacate y limon
This Mexican avocado lime pie is something like a creamy version of key lime pie, but with the nutritional value of avocados.
Ingredients
1 prepared 9-inch graham cracker pie crust
1 cup a...
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Mexican avocado ice cream: Helado de aguacate
This recipe for Mexican avocado ice cream is simplicity itself, and can be served as a softie ice cream or frozen longer for a firmer, more scoop-able version.
Ingredients
Pulp of 3 medium avoc...
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Mexican rice and amaranth pudding: Arroz y amaranto con leche
This variation of the classic arroz con leche is served in Zimatlan, Oaxaca, one of the largest amaranth-producing areas in Mexico. The addition of popped amaranth grains adds nutrients as well ...
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Mexican cheese and guava flan: Flan de queso y guayaba
Guavas, being so plentiful in Aguascalientes, are used in several desserts. A common combination in Mexico is ate, a paste made with guava, quince, pears or other fruit, and cream cheese, served toge...
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Mexican guava pie: Pay de guayaba
Apple pie, move over. Mexican guava pie, or pay de guayaba, was made to be eaten with either vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. Thawed frozen guavas can be used for this delicious pie.
Ingredients
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Mexican honey spice bundt cake: Rosca de miel y especias
This recipe contains ground flax seed, an ingredient once found only in health food stores here in Mexico, but now sold in supermarkets, called semilla de linaza.
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Mexican pumpkin flan: Flan de calabaza
The complimentary flavors of pumpkin and allspice come together in this easy, satisfying dessert. It is important to use genuine vanilla extract and not the artificially flavored ones.
Ingredients
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Cheesecake with Mexican blueberry maguey jam: Pay de queso con mermelada de maguey
In Mexico, the cheesecake is more like pie, baked in a pie pan with a crust of crackers called galletas marías. In the U.S., the sweet tea crackers called Social Teas are a good substitute.
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Mexican chocolate flan: Flan de chocolate
Perhaps the classic Mexican dessert, flan is found all over the country, and in Mexican restaurants the world over. This variation, Mexican chocolate flan, is a festive change from the usual egg custar...
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Mexican coffee flan: Flan de cafe
Mexican coffee flan comes from the Coatepec region of Veracruz. Instant espresso powder is a boon to the dessert maker, since it dissolves easily and has an intense flavor.
Ingredients
For the carame...
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Mexican coconut flan: Flan de coco
This is a quick, easy and delicious dessert. Like any flan, it needs to be prepared in advance and refrigerated. There are many instant flan mixes in Mexico that are now widely used by housewives-in-a-...
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Mexican vanilla flan: Flan de vainilla
Considered one of the classic Mexican desserts, flan takes on a far more distinctive character when prepared using fragrant vanilla beans. Mexican vanilla flan should be made one day ahead of time and ...
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Mexican honey flan: Flan de miel
Honey lovers get a double dose of honey flavor in this flan, because it uses honey instead of caramelized sugar in the glaze, as well as honey in the custard.
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Classic Mexican flan: Flan mexicano
This classic Mexican flan is adapted from Essential Cuisines of Mexico by Diana Kennedy, who based it on a recipe by Josefina Velazquez de Leon, who collected recipes from all over Mexico and wrote sev...
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Mexican strawberry flan: Flan de fresas
Spring and summer mean berry season, and this Mexican strawberry flan, made in individual custard cups, look festive garnished with a few slices of strawberry and sprigs of fresh mint.
Ingredients
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Mexican mango flan: Flan de mango
Here Mexico's favorite fruit combines with its favorite dessert. Sliced mango, shaved chocolate, and shredded coconut are all attractive options for garnishing this dessert. Make the mango puree by put...
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Coconut cream tart: Tartaleta de coco
This dessert has coconut in the cream filling and on top — a double dose for coconut lovers.
Ingredients
¾ cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
4 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup coconut cream (...
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Candied walnuts: Nueces garapiñadas
Candied nuts are a favorite treat in Mexico, and may be made with walnuts, pecans, almonds or peanuts. Walnuts are most prevalent during the winter holiday season. This sweet is one of the things we ca...
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Mexican Christmas Cookies: Galletas de Navidad
Both blackberry and apricot jam are produced in great quantity in late summer and enjoyed during the cooler months, especially in the Sierra Madre Oriental region, where fruit orchards abound. Either o...
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Sweet tamales: Tamales dulces
Sweet tamales, wrapped in corn husks and piled on platters, are a traditional treat at children's birthday parties, christenings and First Communions, as well as at the Christmas posadas.
On Cand...
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Tamarind candy: Dulce de tamarindo
This homemade candy is the kind sold at regional fairs in Mexico. Although in some places it is sold in miniature clay cazuelas, it is better cut up and individually wrapped in cellophane, since it is ...
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Macadamia truffles: Truffles de macadamia
When I spoke with Erika Maza, Patricia Garibay and Magaly Dominguez, founders of El Vivero Macadamia, this was one of the first sweets they planned for production at the cooperative. It helps to keep a...
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Tequila lime pie: Pay de limon con tequila
This dessert uses the pungent limes that are indispensible to so many Mexican meals. Piled high in markets all over the country, they are often squeezed onto food at the table in place of salt. The Flo...
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Strawberry margarita sorbet: Sorbet de coctel margarita con fresas
A drink and dessert in one, this is perfect for informal summer entertaining. It is attractive scooped into margarita glasses and garnished with sprigs of mint or paper thin slices of lime.
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