CULINARY THUMBNAIL
Here is the most notable characteristic of this state's cuisine:
- arid highlands (averaging over 7,000 feet elevation, 2200 m) covered
with ranchlands and desert, so lots of meat
TRADITIONAL DISHES TO LOOK FOR
- Caldo or Cocido -- these are general terms for
stews, but in Zacatecas the traditional recipe consists of three kinds of meat (beef, pig
and chicken), string beans, garbanzos, small squash, sweetcorn, a bit of rice, onion,
garlic and saffron. Upon serving, the vegetables are separated from the stew, and then the
dishes are eaten with a great deal of chili sauce
- Gorditas --
biscuit-like packages of cooked cornmeal, lard and salt, stuffed with beanpaste and chili
- Condoches
--gorditas made with sweetcorn mixed with cinnamon, milk, sugar and vanilla, cooked atop
corn leaves
- Birria --
small chunks of goat or sheep, or both, smothered in chili sauce, garlic, salt, thyme,
cumin, black pepper and cinnamon
- Menudo -- cow
rumen stewed with chilies
SWEETS
- Capirotada --
white bread fried with slices of bread alternating with cheese, peanuts, potato, nuts and
preserved biznaga cactus, all bathed in honey or unrefined brown sugar
- Queso de Tuna -- candy
made from prickly pear cactus, sometimes prepared with nuts
- Camote -- the word camote
means sweet potato; when a sweet is being referred to, it's a candied sweet- potato cut
into bars and wrapped in paper
- Biznaga -- candied cactus
of the genus Mammillaria
- Gordita de Cuajada
or Gordita de Horno -- a gordita
filled with goat-milk cheese that is ground with corn, milk, sugar and cinnamon
ALCOHOLIC DRINKS
- Pulque --
mildly intoxicating drink made by fermenting the sap, or aguamiel, of the maguey
agave
- Mezcal -- distilled from
pulque
- Colonche -- fermented
macerated cactus fruit and sugar
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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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