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🌎Hello craving people😋, today's menu will have a little or hyper spicy taste. Mexico has the honor to be the most award-winning food in the world currently; more later it will be discovered why.

Mexico has their roofs since centuries of history, and the culture more remembered was the Mayas and Mesoamericans until currently with influence of Europe, Asia and other parts of American Continent for incorporate ingredients that many cultures could be considered simple, but in Mexico was creative to be what they are.

This country can be recognized like the home of the Corn🌽. Although other cultures also use the corn as a sing or base of their gastronomy, Mexicans experiment very much with this grain that we can see it in almost everything dish, but curiously in the same presentation: Tortillas.
If we think about the basis of many of the Mexican dishes are tortillas only with different presentations and names. A small glimpse will be useful: Chilaquiles, Enchiladas and Sopes.


🍴Chilaquiles: Fried corn tortillas cut into triangles bathed in red or green sauce (There is also the version with both sauces called divorced chilaquiles) and on them sour cream and fresh white cheese. Meat is optional although not tradicional.

🍴Enchiladas: Corn Tortillas (Sometimes the tortilla is made of wheat instead of corn) usually folded to make a tube stuffed with chicken meat usually bathed on top red or green sauce, sour cream and fresh white cheese although the latter is more optional.

🍴Sopes: Although the base of this dish is not considered a tortilla as such because of its thickness but it really is. So, we could say that a sope is a thick tortilla that is fried in lard to be spread with red or green sauce and fresh white cheese. Meat of choice and sour cream are optional.
Three dishes, three different names and all three have very similar tortillas and ingredients only that the cut, fold or thickness of the tortilla changes.

We can continue talking about how corn is used in many more versions both salty and sweet, but it is better to continue explaining why this gastronomy so simple in terms of ingredients achieved one of the highest recognitions in the cultural world. 
Traditional Mexican cuisine is a comprehensive cultural model comprising farming, ritual practices, age-old skills, culinary techniques and ancestral community customs and manners. It is made possible by collective participation in the entire traditional food chain: from planting and harvesting to cooking and eating. (UNESCO, 2010, pa 1)
Being granted this recognition of cultural heritage and the increased use of social networks has made Mexicans use their culinary traditions as a form of tourism and learning for their country. In addition, many chefs worldwide qualify Mexican cuisine as one or if not the best in the world.

With the little detail like that many people like me that don't like the spicy food, so in list my personal opinion, Mexico got: 9 golden spoons.



💥At the beginning it was said that this experience would be spicy because it is time to talk a little about the most common chilies in Mexico. The best-known names: Jalapeño, pasilla, ancho, De arbol, Serrano, Chipotle, etc. 
🔥Fun fact: Did you know that Chipotle is the same as Jalapeño? Yes, Chipotle is the smoky version of Jalapeño!


🔥Salsa Roja (Spicy red sauce) 

  • 2 chili peppers (previously several types of chilies were named, if you can find chilies "De arbol" and "serranos", they will be ideal but outside of Mexico, jalapeño would be ok)
  • 1/4 or 50 grams of onion.
  • 3 tomatoes 
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 2 tablespoons of vinegar 
  • Salt and black pepper.

Put the tomatoes, chilies and onion directly on the fire so that they "tatemen" or burn the skin slightly. Then in an airtight bag or aluminum paper put the vegetables to sweat and become soft. 
TAKE CAREFUL: If you do not want your sauce to sting too much, before processing everything to the chilies remove the seeds and veins! Do it when they are tempered.in a blender crush everything with salt and pepper to taste.
You can also mash the ingredients in a molcajete, processor or simply with a knife.



Enjoy with taquitos!!😋

 
Thank you very much for reading😁. See you later. 👋









References


UNESCO. 2010. Traditional Mexican cuisine - ancestral, ongoing community culture, the Michoacán paradigm


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