Tag ‘Mexican cuisine’

166. Quesadilla with avocado and creamy chilli sauce (Mexican recipe)

Where I can, I try to dilute recipes for sweet desserts with something spicy and filling. Today you can learn to make a not very well known but still fairly popular Mexican dish – a quesadilla with avocado and a spicy cheese and chilli sauce. The main difference from a burrito is that the quesadilla tortilla is folded in half rather than wrapped around the filling, and it sticks together thanks to the layer of cheese. Details under the cut. Read more »»

156. Burrito (Mexican recipe)

Six months ago I made an excellent Mexican dish — tacos with chicken and chilli. Today we're going back to food for real muchachos and making a dish that's more traditional for Mexico — a fiery burrito with rice, chicken and Tabasco sauce. If you aren't afraid of a bit of heat, look under the cut and follow the step-by-step recipe with photos. Read more »»

128. Tacos with chicken and chilli (Mexican recipe)

Today I'll teach you to make one of the most popular dishes of Mexican cuisine — a spicy taco with chilli. The dictionary describes a taco as "a tortilla filled with spiced meat" and calls it a "light lunch". It's a sandwich made from a tortilla folded into an envelope and filled with all sorts of things: fried meat, seafood and even cactus leaves. So let's get started. Read more »»