Mexican mango salsa: Salsa de mango
The streets are littered with mango pits, and stands selling fresh mangos-on-a-stick, cut to resemble flowers, are on every other street corner. Is it a festival? A fair? No, it's just mango seas...
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Avocado and kiwi salsa: Salsa de aguacate con kiwi
When I went to visit friends in warmer parts of Mexico, I was surprised to see so many kiwis in the market. This drab brown, coarse-skinned fruit embodies the saying that "beauty is on the inside" beca...
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Tropical Mexican pineapple salsa: Salsa de piña
The Pineapple Fair in Loma Bonita, Oaxaca, in the lush, tropical part of the state bordering Veracruz, celebrates months of packing and processing the fruit for world-wide, as well as national, distrib...
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Mexican seven seas fish: Pescado siete mares
Mexican seven seas fish is a specialty of La Cenaduría, a lovely old adobe restaurant in San Jose del Cabo. It combines fresh red snapper filets, a mild salsa roja, and just enough manchego cheese to ...
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Adobo: a Mexican seasoning sauce for shrimp, chicken, rabbit or meat
Adobo is a traditional seasoning sauce and arinade based on the chile ancho. This recipe was given to me by Estela Salas Silva. Having learned the culinary arts from her grandmother, Chef Doña Eulogia...
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Meat steamed in maguey leaves: Mixiotes
The word mixiotes refers to one of the most delectable dishes within the wide spectrum of Mexican cooking, as well as the wrapping used to contain these steamed individual meat stews.
This wrap...
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Mexican salsas
salsa . (Latin salsa, salted.) fem. Composition or mixture of several edible substances, diluted, made to dress or season food.
There is no doubt that the above definition was translated from...
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