Mexican food/drinks Flashcards
Mexican beers
- Bohemia Clasica
- Carta Blanca
- Victoria
- Dos Equis
- Tecate
- Modelo
Mexican cocktails
- Margarita:
- Michelada:
- Paloma: grapefruit soda and tequila
- Rosada: grapefruit, tequila and rosemary simple syrup
Mexican non alcoholic drinks
- Horchata: drink made by blending white rice and cinnamon sticks in water
- Champurrado: hot beverage made with corn flour and chocolate
- Atole: hot beverage made with masa, cinnamon, and brown sugar
- Agua de Jamaica: hibiscus tea served chilled
- Licuado/Batido: blended beverage made of milk, fresh fruit, and ice
- Cafe de Olla: coffee made with cinnamon & piloncillo (raw cane sugar)
- Carajillo: coffee with a shot of liquor
Types of tacos
- Al pastor: pork marinated in annatto and pineapple on a vertical spit rotisserie
- Barbacoa: slow roasted meat, either lamb, sheep, or goat
- Carnitas: slow roasted pork (aka “little meats”)
- Cochinita pibil: suckling pig slow roasted in achiote chili paste and orange
- Suadero: beef meat between the cow leg and belly
- Birria: slow roasted goat (or beef) served with consomme
- Arrachera: beef flank, usually the most expensive taco on the menu
- Guisado: stew - breakfast taco served with many possible fillings
- Campechano: means two fillings, usually bistec and chorizo
- Nopales: edible part of the cactus
Mexican breakfasts
- Chilaquiles: fried corn tortillas are smothered in sauce, sprinkled with cheese and a dollop of cream, and then topped with some finely sliced onion and parsley
- Huevos rancheros: fried eggs served on top of a lightly fried tortilla and smothered in a sometimes-spicy tomato sauce
- Huevos motuleños: tortilla that is lightly fried, then topped with a spoonful of refried beans, a fried egg, a tomato-based sauce, peas, ham and fried plantains
- Huevos divorciados: fried eggs and tortillas, served with salsa verde and roja
- Huevos a la Mexicana: scrambled eggs cooked with onion, tomato, and chile peppers
- Mollete:
- Enchiladas suizas: lightly fried tortillas stuffed with chicken, covered in a green tomatillo sauce that usually also has cream in it, and coated with shaved cheese
Mexican desserts
- Tres leches: sponge cake made with three milks
- Arroz con leche: rice pudding
- Capirotada: baked bread bathed in piloncillo honey
- Jericallas: custard
- Churros: fried dough
- Sopaipilla: fried puff pastry dipped in honey
- Flan de rompope: “fiesta time” flan, simply made with vanilla
- Plátanos flameados: flamed plantains
- Paleta: Mexican ice pop
Types of salsa
- Pico de gallo
- Salsa verde
- Salsa roja
- Salsa borracha
- Salsa bruja
- Salsa macha
- Mole
- Chiltomate
Mexican cheeses
- Queso fresco
- Queso anejo
- Cotija
- Queso de Oaxaca
- Panela
- Crema
- Chihuahua cheese
- Requeson
- Queso asadero
- Manchego
Mexican “ceviche”
Aguachile
Mesoamerican dish made of masa
Tamal
Creamy and spicy street corn
Elote
Esquite: elote, but served in a cup
Traditional Mexican sauce or marinade
Mole
Sandwich
Torta
Grasshoppers
Chapulines
Stuffed pepper
Chile en nogada
Tortilla folded with pureed bean paste, Oaxacan cheese, and other fillings
Tlayuda
Puffed up fried tortilla packed with fresh ingredients and cheese
Infladita
Beans
Frijoles
Male plantain
Plátano macho
Corn mushroom (smut/Mexican truffle) that randomly grows on organic corn
Huitlacoche
Filling
Relleno
Pumpkin flower
Flor de calabaza
Small red chili pepper of marked pungency that is produced by a capsicum
Chiltepin
Flying ants
Chicatana
Raw form of cane sugar
Piloncillo
Thick maize tortilla filled with fried beans (Oaxacan recipe)
Memela
Thin stuffed corn tortilla folded into triangle (Oaxacan)
Tetetela
