Our 17 favorite Mexican culinary specialties

In order to perfect your desires in Mexico, and to put water in your mouth before staying there, here is our top of the 17 Mexican culinary specialties!

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Travel to Mexico today, where gastronomic culture is particularly large! Tacos , fajitas or of course guacamole are in honor, in this top of our 17 favorite Mexican specialties.

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1. Empanadas

If they are from Spain, like many Latin American dishes, the empanadas are a true classic of Mexican cuisine. Small slipped paste slippers (sometimes bread dough), they can be roughly forged at all! So, meats, fish, vegetables, potatoes or eggs will be welcome for your personal recipes of empanadas.

They can be served both in entrance and snacks, in hors d’oeuvre or other amusement.

2. Tacos

Tacos are probably one of the most representative dishes of Mexican cuisine! If they are, like the fajitas or other burritos (which we will talk about later), composed mainly of a tortilla that is filled with different ingredients, the tacos are quite apart.

Moreover, if they are classified as “small hunger”, the tacos can quite act as an entrance or dish, depending on their consistency and the number of tacos (difficult to stop after only 1 taco...)!

3. Quesadilla

The quesadilla is the typical snack of Mexico and Central America! A tortilla, cheddar and spices will be the main elements of those that will replace the ham-beurre sandwich in your hearts.

Depending on your hunger, you can add food to make it more consistent. So, meat, vegetables or potatoes can make their appearance in your personalized recipe of Mexican quadillas. But don’t forget the cheese, it’s the basis of this dish! Its name is also a derivative of the Spanish “Quso”, which means cheese in Spanish.

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4. Tostadas

The border is light between "cas" and "entrance", like the tostadas we could have classified above in this top of Mexican culinary specialties.

Constituted with a fried corn tortilla until it becomes crunchy, they are mainly filled with black beans purée. For the rest, it is at your convenience! Chicken or seafood will be welcome, accompanied by tomatoes, lettuce, and seasoned with coriander and hot sauce...

If you are visiting Cuba, don't be surprised, the tostadas are largely different! Closer to the toast, they enjoy breakfast, mainly with butter.

5. Ceviche

Appreciated for its freshness, and mainly consumed in the summer in the western world, the ceviche is an entry based on raw and marinated fish. If it is a typical dish of Mexico, it is forcing Peru to find its origins.

Based on tuna, salmon or dorade, the ceviche is now available in a thousand ways, sometimes even with seafood such as shrimp or mussels.

6. Guacamole

You were probably expecting it since the beginning of our ranking of Mexican culinary specialties, here it is: the guacamole!

It is tasted both at the apero and in dishes with Latin flavors. More than a culinary emblem, the guacamole is primarily synonymous with sharing and simplicity. This same simplicity we find in its original recipe, history for the least astonishing.

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7. Fajitas

Despite the photo, do not misunderstand: the fajitas are originally made of beef meat. Yet today, and around the world, they are much more popular with chicken...

This "tex-mex" dish, originally from Texas in the 1930s, became one of the references of Central American cuisine.

8. Mole poblano

If he is one of the most surprising dishes in Mexican cuisine, he is nevertheless the national flat The country! Tasted mainly on the evenings of parties, the poblano mole is a recipe of turkey with... chocolate!

This recipe, for the least astonishing, to date through a very special occasion contest, with historical contours...

9. Burritos

The burrito is another great classic of Mexican cuisine, and has also spread widely throughout the western world! Composed of a wheat flour tortilla, it is then garnished with beef, beans, spices, and other tomatoes, chili and onions.

Wheat flour is used here only as an envelope for filling. But if you fry it, it is then another culinary specialty that offers to you: chimichanga.

10. Enchiladas

Enchiladas are certainly the most detoured dish in Mexico, according to the region in which you are located! Composed of corn tortilla, often fried, you can find several kinds during your stay:

• Green enchiladas (verdes), whose sauce is based on small green peppers, called Tombs ;
• The red enchiladas (rojas), the base of which is made of tomatoes and red peppers;
• Finally, the soft enchiladas, the chocolate sauce we talked about for the Mole Poblano.

11. Cochinita pibil

When we mention the Cochinita pibil, we take a step in Mexican and South American history. This traditional Mexican dish, from Yucatán, is the result of a mix of cultures between traditional cuisine and that imported by Spanish conquistadors.

This gives a particularly tasty flavor, composed mainly of pork meat marinated in citrus juice, before roasting it in a “ píib » surrounded by a banana leaf. A píib is a ground furnace dug directly into the soil to cook foods closest to nature.

12. Panuchos

Once again, this dish could have been present in our small hunger classification, even if it can also be in the main entrance or dish, depending on your hunger. Generally, panuchos are used as a dish at the time of dinner.

The panucho is a delight of the traditional Yucatán cuisine, also made up of a cake and a stew of beans. A legend surrounds its creation...

This recipe would have been invented by Don Hucho, the owner of a food stand from Camino Real, around the mid-19th century. With little ingredients, Don Hucho would have prepared a bread with beans and a simple egg. The recipe would then have been furious, and this "bread" would have kept the family name of its creator, becoming the "panhucho".

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13. L’Horchata

The Horchata, also known as Agua de Horchate or Horchata de Latte, is a Mexican beverage based on milk and sugar, made from the souchet, a tuber belonging to the family of the Cypéracées.

At the same time soft, almost comforting, and particularly refreshing, it can be eaten in the middle of the afternoon of great heat, as well as dessert, when you enjoy its softness after a spicy dish...

14. Tamales

The tamales, tamal in the singular, are a native speciality that has spread out as a Mexican culinary specialty, especially on the day of candlelight, instead of our pancakes.

But although they are consumed mainly for dessert, they can also be tasted as a salted dish. Indeed, there are no less than 300 varieties of tamales in Mexico!

15. Pastel de tres leche

The “tres leche pastel” or cake with three milks is a speciality among the desserts of Central and Latin America. Yet, it would draw its origins from medieval Europe.

The reason is simple: the factories of the brand Nestlé, famous milk manufacturer, were essentially in Argentina , in Colombia and Mexico. The brand had then applied the recipe of this cake to the back of some of its products, and the Americans therefore appropriated the recipe as the times, until it became a real classic.

This cake is bathed and/or composed of three different types of milk: whole milk (or cream), non-sweet concentrated milk and sweet concentrated milk.

16. Capirotada

Capirotada is a traditional Mexican dessert served mainly the Good Friday . Similar to the "bread pudding", it is composed of roasted bolillo (similar to the French baguette) and soaked in a hot syrup, or in milk flavored with citrus fruit.

To finish, or to start the evening...

17. Tequila

How not to finish this ranking by LA drink that will suddenly ignite on your Mexican evenings... Tequila!

Boisson (of course) alcoholic produced on Mexican lands, it is distilled from a plant called Agave tequilana. But be careful, to get the name "tequila", this drink must be exclusively produced in the state of Jalisco (or some rare other states...) !

If it is not a Mexican culinary specialty, we can promise that you will not be able to miss it when you find yourself in Latin America... And so much better!