Mexican Recipes
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Tacos With Black Beans and Chard
If you are looking to feed a crowd, one way to meet the challenge is to pick up a supply of corn tortillas and make a big pot of beans and some other dishes that are at home in a taco. Buy some salsa, or make your own, and your house will be taco party central. You can make fillings in advance and arrange in bowls or on platters. Then all it takes is warming tortillas in a microwave, oven or steamer, and guests can assemble their own tacos. These beans are great in tacos, but can also be eaten on their own.
Herb And Shallot Salsa
Black-Bean Quesadillas With Smoked Salmon
White-Clam Quesadillas
I love beer with seafood, especially casual summer seafood like lobster rolls, fried clams and steamers. A good white-clam pizza also calls for a refreshing pale ale. Using the pizza as my inspiration, I made clam quesadillas that I seared on the grill. While they were still sizzling hot, with the mellow cheese starting to ooze, I cut them into wedges, which disappeared almost as fast as the frosty mugs of beer. With a small portable grill, you can prepare them to cook at the beach or in the park. And if the weather does not cooperate, sear them on a griddle or under the broiler.
Black Bean Chorizo Casserole with Pickled Onions
You’ve probably made some kind of Mexican casserole layered with tortillas, beans, and plenty of melted cheese before (and if you haven’t, now is the time). But this one is bolder, brighter and more deeply flavored, thanks to pasilla chiles in the sauce, lime zest in the luscious crema topping, and chorizo in the beans. If you’d prefer a vegetarian version, leave out the chorizo. But do seek out the pasilla chiles (also called negra chiles), which add their inimitable smoky, fruity spice. This casserole reheats perfectly and will keep for at least five days in the fridge.
Sunday Black-Bean Soup
Not everyone in a household wants to watch football games on Sunday. For those looking for an excuse to wander in and out, nothing beats cooking. A slow-simmering soup is the perfect ploy for the less-than-dedicated television viewer. It requires sporadic attention, providing a reason to leave the television viewing room as often as the cook desires. What makes the soup appealing is that by the time the games are over, dinner is ready. What makes it irresistible is that it also provides dinner for one weekday evening.
Tostadas With Smashed Black Beans or Vaqueros
Refried heirloom vaquero beans add a special touch to these tostadas, but black beans work, too. I have always had a weakness for black bean tostadas. These are not unlike Oaxacan tlayudas, though this recipe doesn’t call for that dish’s signature extra-large corn tortillas. I used luxurious black and white vaqueros from Rancho Gordo for these, but black beans will also work well. Cook them yourself (don’t use canned), because you’ll need the delicious broth. I don’t refry them for as long as I normally would because I like them moist, and vaqueros are starchier than black beans.
Watermelon or Cantaloupe Agua Fresca
Agua fresca is a light fruit drink popular throughout Mexico. It’s simply made by blending fruit with water, a bit of sugar and a little lime juice. Begin with sweet, juicy melon, or your agua fresca won’t have much flavor.
Ceviche Tostadas
Crabs Escondido
Pozole
Pozole is a traditional soup or stew from Mexico. Variations use different kinds of meat, like beef, chicken, turkey or even pork rinds instead of the pork used here. But the hominy is the constant.
Salsa Cruda
Grandma Salazar's Tortillas
This recipe for flour tortillas came to The Times in 2005 from Traci Des Jardins, a San Francisco chef whose heritage is Cajun on one side and Mexican on the other, via her maternal grandmother, Angela Salazar. You’ll see “bacon drippings” in the ingredients. These make for really delicious tortillas.
Game Day Nachos
Here is a heavily-loaded platter of shredded pork inflected with the flavors of cumin, coriander and lime, layered with tortilla chips and sliced radishes, flecks of scallion and leaves of cilantro, drifts of shredded cheddar and lime-scented sour cream, to be accompanied by hot sauce, napkins and beer. It is football-watching food, but doubles nicely as dinner for teens, young adults, anyone interested in the inhaling of the delicious. The pork is an all-day affair, requiring five to seven hours of roasting in a low oven so that the meat achieves a collapsing sweetness beneath a burnished crust. But the rest of the recipe is easy work indeed: bowls of the condiments may be combined on a platter with the shredded meat and diced skin in any manner you deem appetizing.
Spicy Lentil and Sweet Potato Stew With Chipotles
The sweetness of the sweet potatoes infuses this Mexican-inspired lentil dish along with the heat of the chipotles, which also have a certain sweetness as well because of the adobo sauce they’re they are packed in. The combination, with the savory lentils, is a winner.
Vanilla Flan
Onion Salad
Baked Hominy Casserole With Chilies and Chicken
Chipotle Chili Sauce
Fried Hominy
Beef Fajitas
Lamb and Red-Pepper Fajitas
Fajitas (Meat-filled tortillas with hot sauce)