Mexican food: 5 most popular dishes

Mexican food, as opposed to the same Japanese (meaning, of course, sushi and rolls), we were not very close, and Russian cooks prepare Mexican food is not so often. And it is worth, because the most famous dishes of this cuisine will certainly appreciate the fans of meat, juicy and bright flavors. So we correct the omission and prepare the most popular Mexican dishes for your favorite!

Who at least somewhat familiar with Mexican cuisine, certainly aware that Mexicans are very fond of spicy food, legumes - peas, beans, etc., as well as the meat in a variety of its variations. Many dishes that are most popular in Mexico - a dish with a bright, strong and spicy taste, such at them kitchen - you can tell, explosive, and not only in terms of severity.

In this kitchen merged Moorish flavor and sophistication of Europe, the tradition of the ancient Mayan and Aztec peoples - it is very interesting and worth it to get to know her better. Besides, for the preparation of Mexican foods do not require difficult and expensive products. As a rule, all that may be needed for enchiladas, tamales, quesadillas, tacos, fajitas - the most famous Mexican dishes, there are widely available in our supermarkets, but if you can not find, for example, jalapeno peppers, they can be safely replaced by a sharp pepper - taste of the dish will not be harmed.

So let's try to make the best known, have become popular worldwide Mexican food - tacos, enchilada, fajita, quesadillas and tamales.

For the preparation of many dishes of Mexican cuisine, you will need tortillas tortillas. How to cook them at home, we have said earlier in the story of yet another very popular Mexican dish - burrito.

Cooking recipe mekikanskogo tacos (tacos)

You will need: 400g minced beef, 100g of ham, 3 medium tomatoes, 1 can of beans in tomato paste, onion and parsley beam, Tabasco sauce, cream cheese sandwich in plastic, tortillas tortillas, ketchup.

How to cook Mexican tacos. Minced fry with a little butter, pepper and salt, add the beans with sauce and chopped ham, put 15min. Grind the onion, tomatoes and greens, mix ketchup, Tabasco fill, podsolit. Tacos form as follows: the warm cake put plastic cheese on it - hot meat filling on top - with ketchup a vegetable, turn off the cake roll and eat tacos in the form of heat.

Replace cakes tortilla pita bread is always possible. A taco can minimize everyone sitting at the table alone: just post on the same plate warm tortillas or pita bread, the second - hot meat filling, and the third - a vegetable.

With one signature dish of Mexican cuisine met: As you can see, everything is very, very easy! The same can be said about the rest.

Recipe for cooking meat quesadillas

Need: 400-500g minced meat, 200g semi-cheese tortilla tortillas 8, 1-2 chili fresh / pickled, 1 onion, a can of beans in tomato sauce and canned corn, 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, 2-3 tablespoons butter, spices (cumin, coriander powder, black pepper, salt).

How to cook meat quesadilla. Grind the onion, fry it with minced meat in vegetable oil. Hot peppers remove seeds, put the stuffing in a pan, adding as corn and beans, coriander, cumin, pepper and salt, put out under the cover to simmer for 10-15min. Cheese grater to rub on, in another pan heat the butter, put one cake, sprinkle it with grated cheese, put part of the filling, smooth, sprinkle with cheese, cover with another tortilla, fry until browning quesadilla on both sides, turning only once good cheese melted and "glued" stuffing, otherwise everything will collapse. Quesadillas are served to the table hot.

In Mexico, quesadillas are popular not only with meat, but without the meat just with cheese, mushrooms, sausage, potatoes, pumpkin flowers, etc.

Next in line - fajitas: traditional Mexican dish of spicy fried meat and vegetables in a wheat tortilla (in Mexico it is served in lettuce leaves).

Mexican fajitas recipe for cooking

You will need: 1 kg of beef, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 red pepper and onion, 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar, 1-2 tablespoons chili sauce (or 2 tablespoons of ground chili peppers), 1 tbsp vegetable oil and cumin, 1 tsp honey and red pepper.

How to cook Mexican fajitas. Meat cut into pieces a la carte. Stir the vinegar, honey and vegetable oil, chili powder or chili sauce, garlic, crushed red pepper and cumin. In the cooked marinade to put the pieces of meat, turn so that the marinade covered them from all sides, and for half an hour or longer leave to marinate. Semicircles chop the onion, bell pepper - strips, heat to 210 degrees oven. In a frying pan to drain the marinade with the meat, put it on a baking sheet with foil and put in the average level of the oven, cook 10 minutes, then turn over and bake until done. In fusion marinade to the pan add the onion and pepper, bring to a boil, put 1-2min over high heat, add oil and fry for another 5 min, covered over low heat. Remove from the oven beef, cool it, cut into strips, put in a pan to pepper with onion, put 5min, podsolit. Put the cooked mixture of vegetables and meat on the leaves of lettuce or Chinese cabbage, or a cake.

In the following recipe, we will discuss how to cook another Mexican dish based on tortillas tortillas called enchilada (enchiladas).

Mexican enchiladas recipe

You will need: 200g minced beef, 200ml tomato puree or sauce, 150g flour, 70ml of warm water 35g butter, 2 mushroom large? large bulbs for? tsp sweet paprika and ground cumin, Tabasco sauce, grated cheese, vegetable oil, black pepper, salt.

How to cook Mexican enchiladas. Cut the cold butter into pieces, rub his hands with flour, gradually add warm water and knead the dough elastic. Divided into 4 parts cooked dough and roll each into a thin cake, a dry frying pan fry on both sides of each cake over medium heat for 1-2min until light golden. To tortillas were soft after cooking they need to be folded into a wet towel. Heat the oil in a skillet, fry the chopped onion, put the sliced mushrooms and beef, cumin, paprika, pepper and salt, and Tabasco to spice sharpness, stir, pour 100ml tomato sauce, pour water, stir and simmer, covered all of 20 minutes. Share on tortillas cooked stuffing, roll each cake roll. A little tomato sauce to pour on the bottom of a baking dish, put it rolls, pour their remaining tomato sauce, mixed with water or broth, sprinkle with cheese and bake in a preheated 200 degree oven for 20 minutes.

Last meal, which we describe in this collection of popular Mexican dishes