Beans: Frijoles
Ingredients:
1 Kilo (2.2 lbs) black or pinto beans
1 Large onion
1 Head of garlic - whole, unpeeled
5 Tbs of salt or to taste
How to Prepare:
Place 2 litres of water on to boil. Clean, s...
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Refried Beans
Ingredients:
1 Kilo (2.2 lbs) black or pinto beans - cooked
10 Tbs. Oil
Chiles Gueros or wax chiles
How to Prepare:
Start by toasting the chiles over a low flame or on a comal (or griddle) u...
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Mexican Green Salsa
Ingredients:
1 Kilo (2.2 lbs.) Tomatillos (with brown papery husk removed)
10 small green chiles
4 C. Water
3 Garlic cloves
2 Peppercorns
2 Cloves
1/2 tsp. Salt
How to Prepare...
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Green Chiles Rajas with Cheese
Ingredients:
1 Kilo (2.2 lbs) Green chiles - poblanos
3/4 Kilo (1.5 lbs.) Tomatoes - chopped
2 Large onions - chopped
4 Tbs. Oil
3 Tsp. Salt
1/2 Kilo (1.1 lbs.) of Queso Fresco or ...
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Avocado and Orange Salad: Ensalada de Aguacate con Naranjo
This salad was inspired by the nearly football-size avocados we bought in the market in San Blas Atempa, a small town right outside Tehuantepec. We had seen some similar ones from Chiapas, but were tol...
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Linguine with Cilantro: Linguine con Cilantro
If you can never find ways to use an entire bunch of cilantro before it wilts in the refrigerator, search no further. Fresh cilantro is the perfect foil for the guajillo chiles in ...
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Cheese Fondue with Chiles and Mushrooms: Queso Fundido con Chiles y Champiñones
Many years ago, we received at least three fondue pots as wedding gifts.
Fondue parties were popular, but after a while, no longer in style in the "avocado green" and "harvest gold" of the seventies, ...
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Cornhusk Wrapped Chiles Stuffed with Fresh Corn: Chiltamales
In this recipe, corn is cut fresh from the cob and used to fill poblano chiles, which are wrapped in fresh cornhusks, eliminating the need for soaking. Although a metate would traditionally be used ...
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Penne Pasta With Mushrooms: Plumas Con Champiñones
A chunky sauce like this is best served with a shorter pasta shape, such as penne, shells, or rigatoni, which will "hold" the sauce, rather than spaghetti, from which the ingredients will slide to the ...
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Tomatillo and Tomato Salsa: Salsa de Tomate y Jitomate
Dried chiles, tomatoes and tomatillos come together in a versatile sauce that serves as a table salsa or a condiment for meat or chicken. This recipe is adapted from the Larousse de la Cocina Mexica...
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Bricklayers' Salsa: Salsa de Albaniles
Bricklayers in Mexico have traditionally prepared their midday meal at the job site and, because this salsa requires no cooking other than boiling the tomatillos, it was popular with them. It can be ma...
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Tomatillo Salsa with Avocado: Salsa de Tomate Verde con Aguacate
This salsa retains the fresh, green taste of tomatillos that have not been boiled. It can be made ahead, except for the avocado, which should be added right before serving. Just about everyone who tast...
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Corn Fungus Crepes: Crepas De Huitlacoche
Sometimes translated to English as "corn smut," huitlacoche has become popular in recent years as a nouvelle cuisine offering in everything from ravioli filling to omelettes. Corn fungus crepes, how...
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Roasted Tomato Salsa: Salsa Asada
In the altiplano, the high plateau of Central México, salsas are frequently made by roasting the ingredients on the comal (a dry griddle) and grinding them in the molcajete. In this recipe, t...
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Tomatillo Herb Sauce: Salsa Verde con Hierbas
By not over blending the sauce once the herbs are added, a fresh flavor and texture of the herbs is retained. I have also enjoyed this sauce over hard-scrambled eggs at breakfast, alongside hot tortill...
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Swiss Chard Tamales: Tamales de Acelgas con Salsa Verde
This is Billy's adaptation of a dish he first encountered at the hotel La Casa de Maty in Tapalpa, Jalisco. The use of Swiss chard leaves to wrap the tamales, instead of the usual banana leaves or corn...
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Fettucine with Ancho Sauce: Fettucine al Ancho
Here, the dried chiles are soaked with the other ingredients, rather than in water or vinegar, as is normally the case. Seville orange juice, which I learned to cook with in the Yucatan, is a great sub...
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Cholula Style Vegetable Salad: Ensalada Cholulterranea
Both types of squash used in this dish, along with pumpkin seeds and squash blossoms, are characteristic ingredients in Central Mexican cooking. If chilacayote is unavailable in your area, substitute c...
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Stuffed Anchos in Cilantro Cream Sauce: Anchos con Salsa de Cilantro y Crema
This recipe may be made ahead and reheated in the casserole dish just before serving. If made ahead, wait until the casserole is ready to go into the oven before adding the cilantro cream sauce, to avo...
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Setas con Epazote
Setas is the general name for several kinds of wild mushrooms found in Mexico, which have different regional names, according to their colors and sizes. ( Yemas, duraznitos, morillas, and ...
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Oaxacan-Style Lentils: Lentejas Oaxaqueñas
This spicy-sweet, meatless main dish is traditional Oaxacan Lenten fare. The combination of spices with fruit is characteristic of southern Mexican cooking. Lentils are one of the fastest-cooking legum...
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Amaranth Greens with Poblano Chile Strips: Quintoniles con Rajas
Amaranth greens were a staple in pre-Hispanic Mexico until the Spanish friars declared amaranth a forbidden crop because the seeds were used by the indigenous people to form replicas of their gods. Tha...
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Yucca in Orange Sauce: Yuca en Naranja
Yucca has always been a staple in the cooking of the Caribbean and the Yucatan peninsula. Fairly bland on its own, it takes well to the flavor of other ingredients, in this case garlic and oranges.
In...
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Lamb's Quarters with Beans: Quelites con Frijoles
Just as the green known commonly as lamb's quarters goes by many different names north of the border -- among them, goosefoot, pigweed and mutton tops -- so does it have myriad names in Mexico, dependi...
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Spaghetti with Poblano Chile and Squash Blossom Sauce: Espagueti al Poblano
Squash blossoms, in season at the same time, go well with poblano chiles. When removing the blossoms from the stems, be sure to remove the pistil as well.
Ingredients:
1 pound spaghetti
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