Mexican cuisine, like other modern culinary traditions of Latin America, is bright, spicy, spicy and very interesting. It was formed as a syncretic food culture in a harmonious mix of the culinary traditions of the local Indians and Spaniards under the tangible influence of the parallel developing cuisine of the neighboring state, that is, the USA.
Mexican salads are a great idea for theme parties like "Latino" and picnics in nature. These dishes, most likely, can not be called easy and refined, although it can be considered, in a certain sense, well-balanced, healthy and nutritious.
Salad of chicken breast with red beans
Ingredients:
- chicken breast - 1 pc. weighing approximately 400-600 g;
- Dry spices and bulb for broth;
- boiled red beans - 400 g;
- red onion - 1-2 pcs .;
- red sweet pepper - 2 pcs .;
- avocado - 2 fetuses;
- chili red hot pepper - 0,5-2 pcs. taste;
- pear ripe autumn yellow (but not soft) - 2 pieces;
- garlic - 2-5 denticles;
- olive oil or other vegetable oil - 5 tbsp. spoons;
- lime - 1 piece;
- lemon - 0,5 pieces;
- green cilantro and parsley;
- salt.
Preparation
Bean in the evening, soak in cold water and boil until ready (or use the finished canned, draining the sauce and rinsing it with boiled water). Boil the chicken breast with onions, pepper-peas, bay leaves and cloves. Let's cool, remove the meat from the broth, remove it from the bones and cut it into small pieces.
Sweet peppers and onions shredded short straws, and pears - small slices. Carefully remove the bones from the avocado and cut it into cubes.
We mix all the ingredients in the salad bowl. Add chopped greens and slightly add.
Let's prepare the dressing: mix a little butter with the juice of 1 lime and half a lemon. Add the chopped garlic and very finely chopped hot chili pepper (be careful!). You can give the gas station to stand for 5-8 minutes and filter through a strainer, but it is not necessary. Fill the salad and mix.
Salad with rice, corn and smoked pork
Ingredients:
- smoked pork not too fatty meat (brisket or bacon) - about 300-400 g;
- boiled friable rice - 1-1.5 cups;
- corn canned - about 150 g (from one small jar);
- red onion - 1 pc .;
- avocados - 1 piece;
- olives without pits - pieces 20;
- sweet red pepper - 2 pcs .;
- pepper red hot chili;
- garlic - 2-4 cloves;
- olive oil;
- grape vinegar, natural;
- lime - 1 pc.
- green parsley and cilantro;
- salt.
Preparation
We cut the smoked pork meat in short strips. Open the jar with corn and salt the liquid. Onions chop a quarter of the rings, sweet pepper - a short straw, olives - circles. The flesh of the avocado is cut into cubes.
We mix rice, meat strips, avocado cubes, chopped vegetables and chopped greens in a salad bowl.
We'll prepare the gas station.
To Mexican salads, of course, you should serve tortillas, which can be baked from a mixture of finely ground corn flour with wheat flour (2: 1 or 1: 1). We knead a simple dough on the water, we form tortillas and bake with turning over in a frying pan, greased with lard.
Mexican dishes are served with national drinks: you can serve tequila, mescal, pulque, beer, table or special strong Spanish-style wines.