Mexican Cookbook: 100 Delicious Mexican Home Cooking Recipes For Optimal Health (A Mexican Recipes Cookbook)

By Javier González

True Mexican meals are much more than salsa and tacos. The Mexican cuisine has been celebrated for its vast variety of simple, festive, earthy and rich flavors. Giving a wide assortment of Mexican food recipes that can be made countless of times. In recent times, the Mexican cuisine has opened up American homes to Mexico's colorful, bright and thrilling food experience! 

Some of these famous Mexican meals, such as chilaquiles, enchiladas, burritos, quesadillas, tacos and more, will leave picky eaters well fed and wanting for more each and every time. This cookbook offers the maximum array of Mexican foods, from Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Recipes, Beef and Pork, Desserts, Appetizers, Beverages, Seafood, Salad and Side dishes. In this book you will find:
•    An Introduction to the Mexican cuisine 
•    Common Mexican Ingredients and Staples to Stock your Pantry with
•    Mexican Cooking Modus 
•    How to Prepare and Shop for Groceries for your Mexican Cooking
•    100 Easy to make, Delicious and healthy Mexican Recipes.
 
A look inside; You will find tasty recipes, which includes:
•    Tasty Huevos Rancheros
•    Cheesy Chorizo Quesadillas
•    Healthy Chiles Rellenos
•    Lemon Papaya Paleta
•    Mexican Salmon Ceviche
•    Lemon Raspberry Agua Fresca
•    Crunchy Grapefruit Shrimp Quesadilla
•    Vinaigrette Catalina and much, much more!

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: MarkHollis
• Release date: Jul 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835868392

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INTRODUCTION

The Mexican cuisine has grown gradually over the past six hundred years with the addition of new spices and ingredients to make the cuisine what we have and love today. The cuisine is a bold, bright and colorful one that constantly features fresh vegetables, tortillas and chili peppers. You will likely find a tall heap of nachos covered with cheese, in addition to tropical fishbowl margaritas in most local Mexican food cafés.

Mexican foods are filled with brilliant flavors, they are colorful and also beautiful. In recent times, people are starting to experience the deliciousness the Mexican cuisine has to offer. Mexican cooking includes both ends of the cooking spectrum, from purely uncomplicated to high complex flavors. The chilli pepper is ever-present in Mexican foods; Whether it is hot, earthy, smoky, fruit or sweet, the chilli pepper forms the foundation of every meal in the Mexican cuisine. Jalapeños, puyas, guajillos, pasillas, anchos, chipotles, poblanos, habaneros and serranos, and more, will always find their way into various Mexican dishes.

The Mexican cuisine has loads of tasty and healthy vegetarian options, such as: greens, pumpkins, squash, zucchini, mushrooms and more. You are assured of a feasting experience filled with bursts of flavor, vitality and nourishment on the Mexican cuisine. This book will help you recreate the lusciousness of the Mexican cuisine from the comfort of your home, on your terms. From the simplicity of chilaquiles or enchiladas to other intricate Mexican dishes, you will enjoy the freshness, tastiness and healthiness of the Mexican cuisine with your family.

Common Ingredients & Staples

The following are traditional Mexican ingredients, which are commonly used in many Mexican recipes.

Starting with beans and corn, which turned out to be part of the very foundation on which the Mexican cuisine was built on for an era, and they are still a source of nutrition till today. Seafood is also a major source of protein for Mexican villages around coastal areas. Ingredients, such as: chicken, wheat, cheese, onions and garlic where imported into the Mexican cuisine by human migration.

An extensive assortment of chiles are also used in the cuisine to offer hot spiciness, including: jalapeños, puyas, guajillos, pasillas, anchos, chipotles, poblanos, habaneros and serranos and much more!

Tomatoes are built into the Mexican cuisine fabric, and they are mostly used for toppings, pico de gallo and salsa. Similarly, the long-established fat used in the Mexican cuisine is 'lard'. It used to cook refried beans, tamales, masa and more. These days, olive oil, avocado oil, sesame oil and other vegetable oils can be used on the cuisine. Recently, cheeses such as queso fresco, queso Blanco and panela were added to the Mexican dish and cuisine.

Mexican Flavors and Spices

These are common spices and flavors that you will find on the Mexican diet. These include:

Lemon juice

Lime juice

Fresh parsley

Fresh cilantro

Mole. This is a mixture of a variety of spices that provides an enormous concentration of Mexican flavors.

Cocoa

Anise

Cloves

Cinnamon

Epazote

Chile powder. A mixture of chiles, herbs and cumin are commonplace.

Cumin

Mexican oregano

Powdered, dried or fresh garlic

Powdered, dried or fresh onion

Mexican Cooking Modus

Like every other new civilization, Mexican cuisine began cooking with the use of a lidded pot on an exposed fire. Likewise, one of the earliest methods of cooking was grilling. Gradually, the Mexican cuisine made its way to the more common cooking methods that are known today. Another common cooking method is frying foods on a flat surface, and more recently on a cast iron pan.

The system of cooking meat known as barbacoa involves steaming meat, enfolded in banana or cactus leaves in a deep pit or over hot-boiling water. Tortilla press are essential to make good corn or flour tortillas. For an enhanced Mexican flavor, the dry roasting method is employed in the preparation of several vegetables, including garlic cloves, onions, tomatillos, chiles and tomatoes before being served as a side dish or before adding them to other Mexican recipes.

The small molcajete or the stone Piedra de molar was used to grind and crush Mexican ingredients. 

Preparation and Shopping

Mexican ingredients are available at your regular store and supermarket. But then again, buying your groceries at a Mexican designated grocery store will give you access to up-to-the-minute spices and ingredients. You will find rare spices, a variety of chiles and an assortment of produce that you can use to put together a tasty Mexican dish.

The Mexican cuisine is vast, go slowly while exploring the various ways you can have the benefits of the Mexican cuisine. Enjoy.

BREAKFAST

Homemade Egg Chilaquiles with Parsley

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Serves: 4 servings

Ingredients (chilaquiles)

4 eggs, large

2 tbsps avocado oil

2 cups tortilla chips

1 1/2 cups canned enchilada sauce

2 tbsps fresh chopped parsley

1/4 cup red onion, diced

Crumbled queso fresco cheese

2-3 (sliced thin) radishes

1 (cut into wedges) lemon

1 (halved, pitted and sliced) avocado

Method

1. Add avocado oil into a nonstick skillet over med-low heat. Break the eggs into the heated skillet, stir to combine and cook until egg-whites are just set. Scoop avocado oil over egg whites until well cooked. Take skillet off heat and let sit.

2. Place a 10" cast iron skillet over med-high heat. Add enchilada sauce into the cast iron skillet, add in the tortilla chips and toss until wholly coated. Cook until tenderized, for 1-2 minutes. Take skillet off heat.

3. Add the eggs, queso fresco cheese, lemon, avocado, radishes and red onion. Sprinkle with salt. Scoop into serving bowls and dig in.

Tasty Huevos Rancheros

Preparation Time: 25 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Serves: 4 servings

Ingredients (pico de gallo)

¼ cup white onion, chopped finely

2 (chopped) medium ripe tomatoes

2 tbsps lemon juice

¼ cup fresh chopped parsley

¼ tsp sea salt

Beans

¼ cup white onion, chopped finely

2 tsps avocado oil

1 tsp cumin, ground

¼ tsp sea salt

¼ cup water

1 (15 oz.) can (rinsed and drained) black beans

½ tsp lemon juice

Freshly ground black pepper

Other Ingredients

4 tsps (divided) avocado oil

1 ½ cups homemade/store-bought red salsa

4 corn tortillas

4 eggs

Freshly ground black pepper

Garnish with (if desired)

Hot Sauce

Fresh chopped parsley

Avocado slices

Feta cheese, crumbled

Method

1. Add the pico de gallo ingredients into a bowl: Add salt, lemon juice, parsley, onion, and tomatoes into an average bowl,