Authentic Mexican Recipes, Easy Mexican Desserts, Mole Poblano Recipe

Authentic Mexican recipes vary greatly region by region. All depend on their locally grown staples such as rice, corn, beans and squash. A lot of avocados are used in making a Mexican food recipe of guacamole. Chili peppers are added to fresh tomatoes to make a Mexican salsa recipe. Papayas, potatoes, lentils and plantains also are widely used.

Tortillas are filled with soft cheeses and meat to make quesadilla recipes. They are commonly used as Mexican appetizers. A cornmeal tamale recipe is cooked inside corn husks or banana leaves. Soft shell taco recipes are made to use in chimichangas and burrito recipes, such as breakfast burritos.

Each year Cinco de Mayo recipes are enjoyed in the celebration of the Mexican militia over the French army. It is a regional celebration, mostly in the state of Puebla. For this occasion, the traditional foods are served along with the traditional Mexican dessert recipes.

Mexican vanilla is a flavoring dating back to the pre-Columbian era. It is made from the famous Mexican vanilla beans. This flavoring is used in most of the wonderful desserts like the flan recipe and tres leches cake recipe.

Six great FLAN RECIPES

Vanilla is also used in capirotada, a bread pudding with apples. This dessert is served traditionally at Christmas and Lent. Sopapillas is an easy Mexican dessert. It is a pastry fried in hot oil, drained and then sprinkled with powder sugar.

Cajeta is like a candy in Mexico. Usually made of sweet milk. It is cooked until it becomes think and caramelized. As in many parts of the world, chocolate dessert recipes are a favorite. Mexican chocolate is a dark bitter chocolate mixed with cinnamon and sugar

Chocolate is also used in a mole sauce recipe. This sauce can be used over rice dishes, on tacos, over fried eggs or many other foods. It is much like gravy in the United States. For me a mole poblano recipe must be spicy and flavorful.

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