food of mexico

[Keeth1]

Cooking is a very creative job, you can approach a paritcular food in your own manner and provide it a different taste. Rather if you want to try other dishes go ahead. In fact children will be pleased as well as be surprised if their daily menu is changed by the addition of a foreign dish for insatnce a mexican dish. This idea will definitely work provided who should cook the food in the right manner and reproduce it in the desired form.
Mexican food is easy to cook if you are intrested in cooking . you can eat mexiacn food outside too because many restruants are providing this special treat to their cutomers. ****** one just fine example of those tourists spot resturants which provide authentic mexiacn food to their customers. In this manner you can enjoy a mexican food in its full swing and later try this at your home.
A typical traditional as well as modern classic mexican dish is charcterised with many features. The most common feature of a mexiacn dish is its intense flavour. Thus intense flavour is the part and parcel of traditional mexican food which grab or attract more and more people to enjoy this unique tasty food. The type of flavouring demarkcates a good and a bad food. Thus flavouring is one of the vital factors in any dish including the mexican one.
Another imporatnt feature of a mexican dish is its colourful presentation. Presentation is yet another imporatnt factor that attracts one to a food. There are different ways in presenting a food, but mexican food stands out among the others for its exquisite colourful presenation, that in fact attract us to eat and enjoy the food as a whole.

[katlady]

I make a really good chili verde it takes 4 hours; but it's really good. The sauce base has 4 different types of peppers (pasilla/poblano; anaheim/big jim; jalapeno, and serranos), garlic, and tomalitos. The pasilla/poblano; anaheim/big jim; garlic and tomalitos are all roasted before being blended into the sauce. I have to peel the peppers after roasting.

I took three different recipes merged them and added a secret ingredient. It also uses a roux maded with masa harina (corn flour) to thicken. I should really write it down so I can make it again.

[momofmeg]

Originally Posted by katlady

I make a really good chili verde it takes 4 hours; but it's really good. The sauce base has 4 different types of peppers (pasilla/poblano; anaheim/big jim; jalapeno, and serranos), garlic, and tomalitos. The pasilla/poblano; anaheim/big jim; garlic and tomalitos are all roasted before being blended into the sauce. I have to peel the peppers after roasting.

I took three different recipes merged them and added a secret ingredient. It also uses a roux maded with masa harina (corn flour) to thicken. I should really write it down so I can make it again.

Katlady you are making me crave Mexican!

[Kimbopolo]

We are experimenting with mole sauces. We've been buying them rather than making them because, as you may know, mole sauces are very labor and ingredient-intensive. Daunting for even us serious cooks. Adding mole sauces to dishes such as enchiladas and burritos has really kicked our Mexincan dishes up a notch (apologies to Emeril).

[Chuck Palm]

Patricia Quintana is like the Julia Child of Mexico. I have all of her cookbooks. So far every recipe that we have tried to cook has turned out to be excellent. I highly recommend her cook books. My 2 favorites of her editions are:

"A Taste of Mexico"
"Cuisine of the Watergods" (This one is all about Mexican seafood preparations. Her "Vallarta Fish" recipe is by far the best seafood recipe I've ever tasted anywhere.)

[Snoozeman]

This is a bot, Mike. Might as well delete it all.

[katlady]

Originally Posted by Snoozeman

This is a bot, Mike. Might as well delete it all.

What is a bot? Are you saying the originial poster was a spammer?
I decided to put two posts together. Here is a mole sauce recipe from Patricia Quintana. enjoy! Wow that is a complex recipe. It makes my Chili Verde look easy. Here in California I can get all these ingredients from the locate grocery store. I'm growing Tomallios and Tomatoes. Mulatos and anchos are both dried forms of a poblano pepper.
Puebla Style Mole : Recipes - GourmetSleuth

Ingredients

2 cups (up to 3 cups) lard
2 1/2 white onions, halved
1 white onion roasted and coarsely chopped
8 cloves garlic, whole, plus
1 head garlic, roasted and peeled
3 tomatoes, roasted
10 Tomatillos, roasted
3/4 cup sesame seeds
3/4 cup raw almonds
3/4 cup raw peanuts
3/4 cup raisins
1 cup prunes, pitted
1 1/2 ripe plantain peeled and sliced 1/4-inch thick
1 teaspoon coriander seed
1 teaspoon anise seed
2 sticks canela (Mexican cinnamon)
1 stale slice of bread, broken into pieces
2 tortillas, charred, broken into pieces
1 1/2 quart hot chicken broth
2 slices white onion
Salt to taste

Chiles
30 chiles mulatos
16 chiles anchos
6 chiles pasilla negro
1 chile chipotle meco
1 1/2 white onions, sliced
6 cloves garlic, whole
Salt to taste
8 oz Mexican chocolate disks (Ibarra), chopped
1/4 cup sugar
2 - 2 1/2 quarts hot chicken broth

Chicken
5 quart water
6 chicken thighs
12 Chicken breasts, halved OR 2 turkeys, 10 lb ea, in pieces
2 large white onions, halved
1 Head garlic, halved
3 carrots, peeled
1/2 Rib celery
6 bay leaves
Salt to taste

Garnish
2 cup sesame seeds, toasted