From tacos to margaritas, Hispanic foods have become integral to every American Cuisine. Especially during the Hispanic Independence Day celebration, Hispanic foods grab more demand and attention.
People in Hispanic countries mostly prefer Mexican dishes and cuisines for their world-class taste. The National Hispanic Heritage Month portrays the rich culture of Hispanic countries. So, here we bring a list of authentic Mexican Hispanic dishes that are pretty unknown to you:
Stuffed Peppers
Stuffed peppers are tremendously popular in countries like Mexico. Every Hispanic has a craving for this savory dish made out of peppers. To prepare this dish, firstly, you need to make a hollow by taking off masses from the inside. After that, you need rice, scrambled vegetables, and meat to fill the hollow part. When filling gets completed, it is ready to cook and then serve. You can use fresh cream, sauce, or cheese for garnishing.
Aside from this, you can also try Mexican spicy Stuffed Peppers. Here, cooks use poblano pepper, raisin, red meat, pork, and spices for stuffing. Even they use melted cheese all over the cooked food. Lastly, they finish the whole thing by covering the dish with red sauce.
Elote Corn
Elote is a traditional street food that presents a dish of grilled corn cob. Here, a cook scorches the corn cob on an open grill and coats it with a thick coating of mayonnaise and tasty sour cream. Before serving, they sprinkle Tajin for seasoning and garnish it with cilantro and kibble Mexican Cotiza cheese. The garnishing process ends with spreading two to three spoons of lime juice all over the Elote Corn.
You can make a fascinating thing with Elote Corn. Deconstruction of this dish will give you a surprise with another tasty treat; that is, Esquites. It contains the same ingredients as Elote, excluding the corn part. Also, it is as famous as Elote corn among Mexicans. At the end of it, we can suggest one thing. If you want to prepare corn Mexican corn dish, it will be best to have white corn instead of sweet corn.
Tacos
Tacos are also a traditional food that all Mexicans love to have in their dishes. It is famous not only in Mexico but instead all over the world. This food is super tasty and very comfortable to intake. Mushy-shell corn Mexican Tortillas are the main thing to prepare Tacos. On that note, Mexican chefs first introduced the hard-shell taco in 1920. After that, in 1940, taco manufacturers brought the portable version to the market.
Tacos is a brilliant street food you can infuse with any cuisine, such as; vegan tacos, kimchi tacos, and fried tuna tacos. Besides these, you can also try out traditional tacos recipes that are very alluring with a savory feeling. Some famous traditional dishes are; tacos de barbacoa made with chopped goat meat, lamb, or beef, and tacos al pastor made with marinated chopped pork.
If you want to taste tacos in the American style, it will be another way to explore tacos. Here, the dish comes with sour fresh cream and stuffed cheese. Its mouth-watering taste has stolen many hearts, but taco lovers prefer the traditional one over the Americanized one because of the fresh ingredients.
Mole Sauce
Mole is a prevalent Mexican dish you can find in any local restaurant. It has different patterns, but the taste is always the same and delicious. This dish contains fruits, herbs, and chili peppers. A mixture of spices enhances the taste. And, it is made of coriander, cumin, cloves, garlic, and anise. Even you can also add chocolate if you want. Though it takes much time to prepare, this tasty Mexican treat is worth this effort.
It is pronounced as mow-lay. The history behind this Mole sauce is vibrant and well-known among Mexicans. Also, people use this sauce to prepare another Mexican delicacy, Mole Poblano. This mole word means sauce, and the ancient Mexican, called Aztecs, used to speak this word. Notably, this word came from the native language, and for that, a part of Mexico still uses this word.
Margarita
This classic cocktail is a prominent part of the Hispanic Independence Day enjoyment. It contains tequila, lime juice, and orange alcohol. Usually, Hispanic people like to have their drink in a special margarita glass with a lemon slice and salted rim, a signature of this customizable creation.
The best thing about margaritas is that you can customize your drink. Even you can offer the drink with ice cubes, sugar, salt, fruit flavors, or just as frozen liquor. Surprisingly, you can have it another way, that is Coronarita. On that note, you will need Mexican beer Corona for pairing with Margarita.
Some say that Tequila Daisy is the leading cocktail that people used to evolve Margarita later on. They believe this theory because Tequila Daisy contains more or less the same ingredients. People found another similarity in the name Margarita because it means daisy in Spanish. So, it is assumed that both are the same.
Many traditional meals in America surprise us. They adapt the customizable order and incorporate the cooking style according to it. These above-mentioned Mexican foods are the best for the Hispanic Independence Day celebration. Read more about travel around the world here.
