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WHAT TO EAT IN CANCÚN
Cancún is a premier tourist destination offering excellent hotels, amenities and more than 300 establishments with delicious and diverse cuisine, this destination has become a gourmet paradise.
There is an important culinary movement in Cancun, with chefs from all over the world. Its cuisine combines the ingredients of Mexican cuisine, including authentic specialties from the Yucatan, with cuisine from other countries. The list of specialties is endless: from Mexican cuisine to the most exquisite international cuisine.
Great service and amazing scenarios are part of the delight, you will choose from palapas facing the sea, sunset views at the lagoon, or modern places in a shopping malls. All of them with pleasant atmosphere enlivened with piano, violins, trios, mariachis and jaraneros.
It is not surprising that many of Cancun’s restaurants are on top on the list of the best restaurants in travel magazines and some of them have received Michelin Guide and the AAA Awards.
Those who want to enjoy regional cuisine can try dishes such as: tikin-chik (a large white- fish, like red snapper or grouper, rubbed with achiote), poc-chuc (dish of meat, commonly pork, prepared in citrus marinade and cooked over a grill), motuleños eggs (eggs on tortillas with black beans and cheese, often with other ingredients such as ham, peas, plantains, and sauce), cochinita or chicken pibil, lime soup or seafood soup, lobster in butter sauce, squid tulum, shrimp curry and lobster soup.
In Cancun there are typical drinks such as pozol with coconut and balché.
Gastronomy and typical cuisine in Cancún
Tikin-Xic Recipe
Ingredients for 5 or 6 servings:
- 6 tsp-axiote seasoning (ground annatoo seed with guajillo and chipotle chiles)
- 1 grouper or a snapper of 2 to 3 kilos without spine
- juice of 10 sour oranges
- juice of 2 lemons
- 3 gûeros chiles
- 5 tsp olive oil
- 4 tomatoes
- 3 yellow peppers, julienned
- 2 green peppers, julienned
- 6 leaves of orégano
- 1 large banana leaf
- 1 purple onion, chopped
- 4 cloves of garlic
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Directions:
Blend the axiote, the garlic, the orange and lemon juice, the salt and the pepper in a food processor.
Marinate fish in this mixture for around 30 minutes.
Sauté the peppers with the chopped onion and garlic, keep warm.
In a sauce pan, reduce the orange juice to low heat until it's a tenth the original amount.
Add 2 tablespoons of butter and set aside.
Add 4 tablespoons butter and oil to a pan. Cook the fish for a few minutes on each side until the fish starts to golden.
Fried in oil the peppers, the tomato and the purple onion
To serve, plate the banana leaf, followed by the fish, and then garnish with the vegetables on top.