Mexican Food Recipes
Mexican dishes usually fill the table with all sorts of soups, stews and sauces. Mexican food recipes are cooked using a variety of ways from quick-frying to slow roasting. All Mexican food recipes have some distinguishing key elements in them. Below are some of these distinguishing elements common in most Mexican dishes.
One of the key elements is corn. Corn is commonly used while preparing tortillas or tacos. Tacos are actually tortillas with fish, beef, chicken or cheese stuffed in it. Corn is also a key element in tamales. This dish is prepared by stuffing the tamales with meat or vegetables and cooking it by steaming.
Chilies are also an important ingredient in any Mexican food recipe. Chilies are cooked in either their dried-up or in their fresh state. The hottest parts of the chilies are the white veins and the seed pods. Mexicans regard the hot taste as a distinguishing part of the flavor. As a result, they use a wide variety of chili varieties, from chipotle, jalapeno, cascabel to varieties like ancho and poblana.
Beans also make up a key element in Mexican dishes. There are a wide variety of bean types used in Mexican food recipes. Some of these are fava, kidney beans and lentils. Some small varieties of beans are added in light broths.
Tomatoes are also another key ingredient in Mexican dishes. Their common usage is in beef and fish servings as well as in salsa Mexican where they are used to spice up the food. Tomatillo salsa is also prepared by use of tomatillos, a type of small green tomato that has a rigid husk. Tomatillo salsa also includes a lot of chilies in it.
Another key element in Mexican food recipes are fruits. Their use is commonly seen in desserts and sauces. The common ones are coconut, papaya, mango and pineapple. Fruits are
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generally eaten raw. A fruit like nopales is a vegetable of sorts and is used to sweeten desserts. Other special ingredients found in certain Mexican food recipes are squash blossoms, herbs like romeritos, pumpkin seeds and a form of fungus called huitlacoche.
Mexican food recipes require that chilies and spice ingredients be cooked in a certain way. Chilies are required to roast, be cleaned and then peeled along one side so that it can be easy to reconstruct them after stuffing them. Chilies are added to meat after the meat has first been boiled and spices and garlic are added 15 minutes later.
When preparing sauce to be cooked with other foods, boil the water first and then add the spices such as onions, garlic and chilies. Let the mixture cook for about 30 minutes after which you remove it from the heat, drain and reserve the liquid. Blend the already cooked ingredients and add other ingredients as stipulated in the recipe. Then season to taste. This type of cooking is done on both green and red sauce. It is no surprise then that Mexican food recipes are favored by many a food enthusiast.
By: Rosa Feirhoffer
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