CULINARY THUMBNAIL
Here are three characteristics of this state's cuisine:
- extensvie orange orchards are found
around Montemorelos
- it's cattle country, so there's
plenty of meat and dairy products
- much processed food and articles
made of wheat flour instead of cornmeal because of its proximity to the USA
TRADITIONAL DISHES TO LOOK FOR
- Cabrito --
goat prepared prepared in various ways; check out Lonches de Cabrito, Cabrito en Su
Sangre and Cabrito al Pastor
- Flor de Palma
(in season) -- the words translate to "palm flower" but the flowers are from the
Izote yucca, and are presented in a kind of torta made with beaten eggs
and tomato sauce
- Asado de Puerco
-- roasted pig
- Machaca con huevo
-- dried, salted beef that is rehydrated, lightly roasted over fire,
soaked in water to remove the salt and to soften, then pounded to pieces, traditionally
over a mesquite trunk, by a mesquite pole. Then it's put in water again to get out more
salt, and finally squeezed and fried in a skillet. A salsa is made with onion,
chili, tomato and oregano, the salsa is mixed into the fried beef and the whole
thing is cooked for about five minutes. Most people expect to eat this with wheat
tortillas, beans and coffee. This particular machaca also contains eggs
SWEETS
- Cajeta de membrillo
and Cajeta de perón -- traditional
cajetas are typically gelatin-based deserts congealed in a round box four or five
inches across, made of thin wood slivers. Membrillo is quince,
and perón is a pearlike fruit
- Gloria -- a
nut-based sweet
- Conservas de Naranja
-- orange preserves
- Empanadas de calabaza
-- a wheat-flour tortilla folded over pumpkin with unrefined brown sugar, then fried in
oil
ALCOHOLIC DRINK
- Mescal --
distilled from pulque, which is a mildly intoxicating drink made by fermenting the sap, or
aguamiel, of the maguey agave
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Information on this page based on
material presented in Gastronomía: Atlas cultural de México,
1988, an extensive and well illustrated work by various authors, published by the
Secretaría del Educación Pública, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in
Mexico City.
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