Mexican cuisine is famous for its intense and mixed flavours, coluorful decorations and variety of spices. Most of today's Mexican food and many other traditional foods tend to be very colourful because of its rich variety of vegetables - chili peppers, chilies, broccoli and radishes, and meats.
Spices & Flavours
Gralic is known to be the most common flavors you may find in Mexican food.It comes fresh, in a jar or in powdered form and is used in many recipes. A few recipes that uses gralic would be Salsa, Taco seasoning and Spanish rice.
Salsa
In Italian or Spanish, salsa is reffered to any type of sauce, however, in English it often refers to the spicy, tomato-based hot-sauces typical of Mexican Cuisine. Salsa comes fresh, jarred, canned or bottled.Fresh salsa is usually more expensive compred to those jarred or canned salsa as it may not contain vinegar. Mexican salsa were......[more]
Burrito
A burrito or a taco de harina is a type of food found in Mexican Cuisine.It consist of a flour tortilla either wrapped of folded around a filling. To make the flour tortilla softer and more pliable, it is normally lightly grilled or steamed. Filings that are usually used includes refried beans, spanish rice or......[more]
Tortilla
The name tortilla is derived from a Spanish word torta , meaning a plain round cake. In Mexico, a tortilla ia a kind of thin, unleavened flat braed, made from finely ground maize or wheat flour. Nowadays, tortillas are made by machine and are very thin and uniform. However, in certain places, they are still often made by hand and are thicker. Corn tortillas......[more]
Mole
The name mole was derved from a Spanish word mulli, meaning sauce. Mole is a generic name several sauce used in Mexican Cuisine, as well as for dishes based on these sauces. In English, mole is often refers to a specific sauce which is known in Spanish by the more specific name mole poblano. Mole poblano is a popular......[more]
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