Mexican Food – A Concise Article On The Tasty Cuisine

Mexican food potray colourfulness, a tone of festivity and variety in flavours. The warm weather conditions and ethnic differences of the region have a played a telling role in shaping cooking style.

Previous conquests have led to a substantial influence of Spanish cooking. Its roots lies in the native staples of the Mayan Indians of the Yucatan Peninsula.

The staples of a Mexican diet include

Tortillas a kind of pancake made out of wheat or maize flour. The versatility of the tortilla as a wrap is endless. Tortillas can be used as a taco, tostada.

All of them are topped or stuffed with quite a lot of stuffings both vegetarian and meat centred and served normally with a dipping sauce such as guacamole, salsa, chipotle etc.

Chipotle Bean Dip These are smoked jalapeno chili peppers also known as ‘chili ahumado’. These chillies are normally a dull greyish tan to coffee colour and measure 2-four in. in length and 1inch girth.

1 tablespoon – Olive oil

3/4 cup – Black beans/pinto beans drained

one/4 cup – Rice (brown or white) cooked

1 No – Spring white onions finely cut

2 tbsp – Chipotle Tabasco sauce

two No – Garlic clove powdered

1/2 tsp – Parsley leaves crushed Salt to taste

Get a pot of water to boil, add the rice and prepare dinner till tender. Wash, rinse and soak the beans overnight.

Fetch a pot of water to boil, add the beans and bay leaf simmer and cook till tender. Drain and set aside. Or you could, steam in a pressure cooker.

Heat oil in a pan add onion, garlic and cook.

Add the beans and seasoning and mix well. Stir in the chipotle sauce. Spread over rice. Garnish with lettuce and serve.

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