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WHAT TO EAT IN TEOTIHUACAN
The regional emblematic vegetable product is the nopal cactus, and with its fleshy leaves and fruits, they prepare a great variety of in stews, salads, pickles and drinks.
You can also savor a good pozole (brothy soup made with pork, hominy, and red chiles), caldo de barbacoa de carnero (mutton barbecue broth), mixiotes de carne (beef steamed in maguey leaves after being marinated in a blend of chili peppers, herbs, and spices), setas al ajillo (mushrooms with garlic) and stews made with rabbit.
If you want to try some pre-Hispanic products, there are several options such as: escamoles (ant larvae) in tortas, salads or simply in a taco with sauce. Other options are the maguey worms, the chinicuiles that you can eat as an appetizer or in a taco accompanied with a sauce.
Within the sweets you can taste some xoconostles (a variety of cactus whose fruit is a type of tuna with a sour taste), tunas in syrup, tuna yogurt, dulce de tejocote (sweet hawthorn) and the traditional pepitorias (pumpkin seed sweet).
Among the drinks are the xoconostle, white tuna or red tuna liqueurs, as well as the delicious rompopes with flavors such as walnut, pistachio, coffee, pine nut or the traditional vanilla.
If you want something stronger, there are pulques and curados made with a wide variety of fruits.
Gastronomy and typical cuisine in Teotihuacán
“Nopal” Salad (prickly pear cactus) Recipe
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- 6 clean nopales (prickly pear cactus)
- 1 spring onion
- 1 tomato
- 150 grams of fresh cheese or panela cheese
- 1 sprig of cilantro
- dried oregano
- salt to taste
Directions:
Wash and cut the nopales into small rectangles. Place them in a container with water and salt to remove the slime. After half an hour rinse under running water.
Put the nopales in a pot with water and salt and a splash of vinegar over medium heat. When they are soft, remove them and drain them in a strainer.
Mix with the other ingredients, chopped tomatoes, cubed panela cheese, thinly sliced chives and chopped cilantro. Sprinkle with salt and oregano.
Serve with tortillas.