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Mexican Desserts Recipes
Recipe: Mexican Desserts Recipes with Strawberries
A lot of Mexican desserts recipes contain fresh fruit, since Mexican cooks love to work with fresh produce, and strawberries are very popular. You can find strawberries at the breakfast table, made into fruit salad recipes and used to decorate Mexican cakes. Also, many Mexican food recipes are based on corn since that is a Mexican staple. The following recipe shows you how to make a corn cake using cornbread bread mix, buttermilk, vanilla and more. The resulting corn cake can be enjoyed warm or cold, and it is nice served with fresh fruit and whipped cream.
This tasty treat contains sliced strawberries and is garnished with whipped cream and more strawberries, although you can use blackberries, peaches or banana in the cornbread cake if you prefer those to the strawberry slices, or you could just cook it plain, without the fruit filling (and even without the topping unless you want to make that).
Serve this warm for the best result, or chilled if you prefer. Warm Mexican desserts recipes are lovely during the cooler months and this is great after any kind of meal. If you want to make a tasty cake without having to put the oven on, this one is really good.
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Hearty Mexican desserts recipes like this delicious corn cake are popular in the cooler months but you can make them at any time of the year really. In the photo you can see the cake is garnished with maple syrup, whipped cream and strawberries with a dusting of powdered sugar, but feel free to add your favorite ice cream, fresh fruits or whatever else appeals. Unless you are serving cornbread with the entree, this delicious corn cake dessert would make a perfect ending to any dinner. This has to be one of the most mouthwatering Mexican desserts recipes ever.
Mexican Desserts Recipes
Mexican Corn Cake with Strawberries
Ingredients
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup cornbread bread mix
- 1 egg
- ½ cup buttermilk
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup white sugar
- ⅓ cup plus 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 8 sliced strawberries
For the Topping:
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 ½ tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon chilled butter
- Maple syrup, whipped cream and whole strawberries, to serve
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Whisk the flour, cornbread mix, salt, baking soda, and sugar together.
- Combine the egg, ⅓ cup butter, buttermilk, and vanilla using an electric mixture for a minute or 2.
- Turn the mixer to low and add the flour mixture, then mix until smooth.
- Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a 9 inch iron skillet over a medium heat and ensure it coats the pan evenly.
- Pour in the batter.
- Combine the flour with the brown sugar to make the topping, and cut in the butter until you get a breadcrumb texture.
- Add the sliced strawberries on top of the batter and then sprinkle the topping on the cornbread cake.
- Cook for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Drizzle with maple syrup and serve with whipped cream and whole strawberries.
- Serves 8
Number of servings (yield): 8
Best Fajita Recipes
Recipe: How to Make the Best Fajita Recipes
Fajitas are a Tex-Mex invention, rather than an authentic Mexican food recipe, but they do contain bell pepper, chicken, onion, garlic, and chilies, which are all Mexican staples. This delicious filling is wrapped up in a warm flour tortilla and you can serve sour cream, guacamole or salsa too (or all three!) Some people like to add grated cheese or shredded cheese to their fajitas, and others like to add zucchini strips as well as the bell pepper.
The following is one of the best fajita recipes if you want to use chicken. You need to fry the chicken first, and then fry the veggies, and finally combine everything to make a delicious fajita filling. Some fajita recipes call for an envelope of fajita seasoning (or even taco seasoning, since it is very similar) but no self-respecting Mexican would use packaged ingredients; in Mexico the home cooks prefer to use fresh ingredients, which is why the following recipe features garlic and chilies for flavor. This gives the fajitas a fresher flavor.
If you want to learn how to make the best fajita recipes, it is always wise to begin with good quality ingredients. Whether you are using beef, chicken or even seafood, make sure it is good quality. The same applies to your vegetables, so choose good ones. It is up to you whether to spice your fajitas up by adding chilies or not. If you do not have fresh chilies you can use a pinch of chili powder instead.
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This chicken fajitas recipe is pictured with Spanish rice but this is optional. Sometimes fajitas are served by themselves or you could offer another side dish. Fajitas can be served like you see in the photo, or you can lay out the tortillas, chicken mixture, vegetables, sour cream, guacamole and salsa separately and allow people to assemble their own. Unless you know exactly how different people like their fajitas, this might be a good option. The best fajita recipes are easy to prepare and such a dish makes a great meal.
Best Fajita Recipes
The Best Fajita Recipe with Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 red bell pepper, in strips
- 1 green bell pepper, in strips
- 1 yellow bell pepper, in strips
- 3 boneless chicken breast halves, in strips
- 8 warm flour tortillas
- 1 onion, in wedges
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 mild green or red chili peppers, diced (optional)
- Sour cream, guacamole, and salsa, to serve
- Fresh cilantro, for garnish
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a heavy skillet and sauté the chicken over a high heat.
- Stir the chicken all the time for 5 minutes or until it is cooked through.
- Remove it from the pan and keep warm.
- Add the onion, garlic, and chilies if you are using them and sauté for 2 minutes.
- Cook for another 4 minutes or until the vegetables are starting to char.
- Return the chicken to the pan and heat through.
- Serve with warm tortillas, sour cream, guacamole, and salsa.
- Garnish with cilantro.
- (Serves 4)
Number of servings (yield): 4
The Best Mexican Recipes for Salsa
When it comes to Mexican recipes and Mexican food, there are few things as important as salsa. No meal is complete without salsa of some sort, and it is impossible to walk into a Mexican restaurant without seeing a salsa of some sort. Most Mexicans cannot eat food without salsa of some sort, and a good salsa to a Mexican is like a good A1 steak sauce.
The salsas range from incredibly mild to overpoweringly spicy, according to the chilies used in the salsa. You can find salsas made with dried chilies, fresh chilies, and even canned chilies. Red salsa comes in dozens of varieties, green salsa can be mixed with a number of ingredients to alter the flavor, and even dried chilies can be made into a delicious salsa.
There are a few simple recipes that you can follow to make delicious homemade salsas, which will always be better and more nutritious than purchasing a bottle ready-made at the store. If you are planning to have a Mexican meal, salsa is something you cannot do without. Even if you just want tasty salsa for a chip and dip party, then you can follow the two simple recipes below to make delicious “Salsa Casera,” or homemade salsa.
Chunky Red Salsa
The simple salsa recipe for red salsa is incredibly varied, and you will find that each restaurant follows its own protocol for making salsa. Making a red salsa is simple, and you can make your own delicious salsa by chopping fresh tomatoes, garlic, onions, and green chili peppers. Fry them all up in a pan, and let the salsa cook until it is mostly liquid with chunks of vegetables. Add salt, pepper, and a sprig of parsley, and this authentic Mexican salsa will blow every bottled salsa out of the water.
Red Salsa
To make a simple red salsa, cut tomatoes, onion, garlic cloves, and green chili peppers in half. The ratio of the salsa is 8 medium tomatoes to 3 chili peppers to 1 onion and 5 cloves of garlic. Fry this all up in the frying pan with a bit of oil, and cook the ingredients until the outside of the vegetables are burned. Blend them up in a food processor or blender, and serve hot.
Green Salsa
A green salsa is more complex, and you will need to cook the green tomatoes for a lot longer than red tomatoes. Fry green tomatoes in a pan with garlic, onions, and fresh jalapenos. Cook until the outside is burned, and blend in a blender. Squeeze in fresh lemon juice, and add salt and pepper to taste. Mash some avocadoes to add to the salsa, and you will come out with a thick, creamy green salsa that will be the perfect garnish for any Mexican dish involving chicken.
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Traditional Mexican Recipes
Traditional Mexican recipes abound, and it is incredibly easy to find a number of excellent traditional recipes that are actually incredibly easy to follow. Mexican food incorporates the food of the natives with some of the ingredients that were brought over by the Spanish, French, and Germans during their occupation of Mexico. Indeed, the Mexican food history is one of the richest and most diverse of the cultures around the world, and you may find that you come to love authentic Mexican food as much as the rest of the world does.
Authentic and traditional Mexican recipes are often easy to follow, such as this simple recipe for making enchiladas. You can make enchiladas with either red or green tomatoes, though green tomatoes are often much harder to find. Making “Enchiladas Rojos” is actually very easy, and you can follow the simple directions below to quickly put together a delicious meal.
To prepare enchiladas in red tomato sauce, you will need to make tomato sauce out of fresh tomatoes. Canned tomato sauce is no substitute for fresh tomatoes, and using canned tomato sauce will leave your enchiladas tasting fairly awful. In order to ensure that your meal is authentic, you will need fresh tomatoes.
Boil the tomatoes, cut in half, in a pot with half a cup of water. Add an onion cut into quarters and a few garlic cloves for taste. Parsley is optional, but it does add a nice taste. Chicken bouillon adds a pleasant flavor, and you may want to see if you can find a few dried red chili peppers to add into the sauce. Once the tomatoes are boiling nicely, blend them into sauce in the food processor. Replace the sauce on the stove, and keep it cooking as you prepare the next part of the meal.
The next part will require fresh corn tortillas, as well as an onion cut into rings, grated cheese, and meat, cheese, or chicken. You will fill the corn tortillas with one of the three protein options, and the filling of your enchiladas is entirely up to you. Roll the filling into a single tortilla, and place each rolled tortilla in a baking tray. Roll the tortillas with filling until your tray is full.
Once the sauce is done, place the onion rings in a nice decoration on top of the rolled tortillas, and pour the sauce over the entire tray. Make sure that the sauce only barely covers all of the rolled tortillas, and add some sour cream and sprinkled cheese on top of the mixture. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes, and serve to your family piping hot.
The longest aspect of this meal’s preparation is cooking the tomato sauce, and you can easily have a delicious, authentic Mexican meal in less than an hour. You may find that a single tray is not enough, and you may have to make two or three trays to satisfy your family and friends’ voracious appetite for these delicious “Enchiladas Rojos.”
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Tasty Mexican Food
There are many great Mexican recipes that you can follow, and Mexican food history is truly one of the richest around the world. The Mexican culture and its cuisine especially, have integrated many different styles and cultures from around the world. The native Indian cuisine is mixed with European, South American, and even American styles of cooking to prepare simple, delicious meals.
The following Mexican recipe is a fairly complex one to create, but you are guaranteed to have a delicious meal by using it. The name of the dish is Chilaquiles, and it combines fresh tortilla chips with tomato sauce, sour cream, and cheese. By adding a few simple spices such as onion, salt, pepper, and garlic, you can make rich dish using either green or red tomatoes.
It is important that you prepare everything separate and only combine everything immediately prior to serving it. If you combine everything too early, you will end up with soggy and bland tortilla chips. The point of the meal is to be a delicious and crunchy one, and you may want to consider making a couple of trays of the dish. Making two trays allows you to serve one already prepared while the other one sits, sans tomato sauce, ready to be combined.
Chilaquiles
Ingredients:
- Fresh or stale corn tortillas
- Tomatoes
- Garlic
- Onions
- Parsley or Fresh Coriander (called cilantro in Mexico)
- Cheese
- Sour cream
- Oil
Preparation:
To begin, cut the tortillas into bite sized chips. Stale tortillas often make better chips than fresh tortillas, but you can use either one. Cut the tortillas in half, and then cut those halves into triangular shaped thirds.
Deep fry the chips in oil until they are crispy, and add salt to taste.
The tomato sauce is important, and you will need to ensure that the tomatoes are cooked for a long time to remove all of the acid. Cut tomatoes in quarters, and combine them in a pot with two halves of an onion and garlic cloves.
Boil until the tomatoes are thoroughly cooked, blend, and return the sauce to the fire to continue cooking. Add salt, pepper, a dash of cumin and chili powder, parsley or cilantro, and a cube or two of chicken bouillon.
In a tray to one side, spread out the tortilla chips evenly. Add a bit of grated cheese on top of the tortilla chips.
Once the tomato sauce is rich rather than acidic, pour it over the tortilla chips. Pour a thin layer of sour cream on top of the sauce, and sprinkle grated cheese on top. Serve immediately.
The best thing about this simple dish is that it is easy to serve 3 or 13 with little more effort. You can stretch the meal as much as you want by simply frying more chips and making more tomato sauce and the simplicity of the meal is sure to make it a popular dish among Mexican food lovers in your family.
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