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Below is a list of dishes found in Mexican cuisine
Enchilada with mole sauce
Pico de gallo ("salsa mexicana")
[edit] Appetizers (botanas) and side dishes
- Arroz amarillo
- Arroz con lima
- Arroz Español (Spanish rice)
- Arroz Verde
- Bolillos
- Calabaza (squash)
- Camote, Mexican sweet potato
- Ceviche, a seafood dish commonly served in the Gulf of California areas
- Dry soup, sopa, typically pasta with flavoring of meat or tomato consomme
- Consomme, broth, either made from drippings of meat roasted for barbacoa, or dry bouillon cubes and powder (usually known by its most common brand name, (Knorr-Suiza)
- Curtido
- Elote
- Ensalada de fruta, fruit salad
- Fideos, noodles
- Frijoles pintos, pinto beans
- Frijoles negros, black beans
- Frijoles charros
- Frijoles
- Guacamole
- Jicama
- Lentejas, lentil beans
- Refried beans (frijoles refritos)
- Nopalitos
- Pambazos
- Papas (potatoes)
- Pico de gallo
- Salsa
- Yuca Cassava
- Iris
[edit] Main Courses
- Albóndigas
- Arroz con camarones
- Arroz con pollo
- barbacoa
- birria
- Bistec a la Mexicana
- bistec picado
- burrito
- caldo, soup, (generally considered an entree rather than an appetizer) which has many variations, such as
- caldo de pollo, chicken soup
- caldo de res, beef soup
- caldo de queso, cheese soup
- caldo de camaron shrimp soup, typically made from dried shrimp
- carne en su jugo, meat and beans in a meat broth
- caldo de mariscos, seafood soup, similar to the Italian dish zuppa di pesce. Popularly supposed to be an aphrodisiac.
- caldo tlalpeño, chicken and vegetable soup with rice, chopped avocado, white cheese, and a chipote chile
- carne asada
- carnitas
- cecina
- cemitas sandwiches
- chapulines and escamoles
- charales, small fish, basically a type of smelt
- chicharrón and chicharrones
- chilaquiles
- chiles en nogada
- chile relleno
- chilorio
- chilpachole de jaiva
- chimichangas
- choriqueso
- chorizo
- churipo
- cochinita pibil
- cocido
- cóctel de camarón and other seafood cocktails
- coyotas
- huaunzontles
- empanadas
- enchilada (red or green)
- fajita
- flautas
- fritadas de camaron
- gorditas
- glorias
- gringas
- huevos divorciados
- huevos motuleños
- huevos rancheros
- lengua
- longaniza
- machaca
- mancha manteles
- menudo
- milanesa
- mixiotes
- mole
- molletes
- moronga
- nachos
- parilladas
- pasties, a speciality of Cornwall, adopted as comida typical of Pachuca
- Pejelagarto asado
- picadillo
- Poc chuc
- pollo asado
- pollo picado
- pollo rostizado
- polvorones
- pozole
- pulpo, octopus
- quesadillas
- rajas con crema
- romeritos
- sopes
- sopa azteca
- sopa de pescado siete mares, a seven-fished bouillabaise popular in the Gulf of California and Pacific areas
- sopa de pollo
- sopa de tortilla
- sopa tarasca
- sopapilla
- tacos
- tamales
- taquitos
- Tortillas
- Tortas (sandwiches)
- tostadas
- tlacoyos
- tlayudas
- tripas
- venado, particularly in the Yucatan.
[edit] Drinks
[edit] Desserts and sweets
Mexico's candy and bakery sweets industry, centered in Michoacan and Mexico City, produces a wide array of products.
- Arroz con leche, rice with milk and sugar
- Pastel de queso, cheesecake
- Jamoncillos
- Cajeta
- Capirotada
- Carlota de limón
- Coyotas
- Empanadas
- Flan
- Pastel de tres leches (Three Milk Cake)
- Platano
- Alegrías
- Churros
- Dulce de leche
- Chongos zamoranos, a milk candy named for its place of origin, Zamora, Michoacán.
- Jarritos (spicy tamarindo candy in a tiny pot), as well as a brand of soda
- Pan dulce, sweet pastries, like American doughnuts, very popular for breakfast. Nearly every Mexican town has a bakery (panaderia) where these can purchased.
- Pepitorias
- Obleas
- Glorias
- Pan de Acambaro (Acambaro bread), named for its town of origin, Acambaro, Guanajuato. Very similar to Jewish Challah bread, which may have inspired its creation.
- Ice cream. Pancho Villa was noted as a devotee of ice cream. The Mexican ice cream industry is centered in the state of Michoacan; most ice cream stands in Mexico are dubbed La Michoacana as a tribute to Michoacan's acknowledged leadership in the production of this product.
- Paletas, popsicles (or ice lollies), the street popsicle vendor is a noted fixture of Mexico's urban landscape.
- champurrado,
- rosca de reyes,
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