Authentic Mexican Food Spices, Seasonings, Ingredients and Recipes
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Make your next meal with the finest Mexican ingredients direct from the Southwest! We carry authentic Mexican spices, seasonings and foods that will help you create your favorite Mexican and Southwest dishes in your own kitchen!
Get ready for Tamale season!
Making tamales is a Christmas tradition in the Southwest, as well as throughout Latin countries. Here is a great mango tamale recipe from Mesa Mexican Food's own recipes:Mango Tamales
Tamale Dough
12 Dried corn husks, soaked in hot water for an hour to soften
2 cups Masa Harina
½ cup Butter, lard, or shortening softened
1/3 cup Brown sugar (granulated sugar may be substituted)
1 tsp. Baking powder
½ tsp. Vanilla
1 ½ Cups Mango juice or Nectar (orange juice may be substituted)
Mix masa, butter (or lard or shortening), brown sugar, and baking powder in a stand mixer until fluffy. Beat in mango juice and vanilla until well blended. To test the dough, take a nickel-sized piece of dough and place it in a small cup of water. If the dough floats, it is ready.
Mango Filling
2 Large, ripe mangos, chopped into ½" cubes
1 Tbsp. Brown sugar (granulated sugar may be substituted)
1 tsp. Ceylon Cinnamon (sometimes sold as Mexican cinnamon)
To make the mango filling, combine mangos, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat for 7-8 minutes. Set aside.
Tamale Assembly
Drain corn husks and pat dry. Lay the husk down with the smooth side up and the narrow end pointing away from you. Spread about 2-1/2 tablespoons of dough on the husk, leaving about 2 inches at the top of the husk and ¼ inches on the sides. Place about a tablespoon of the mango filling on top of the masa and fold corn husk by closing each side in, then folding the top half of cornhusk to the bottom. Steam tamales by placing a steamer basket in a large stockpot with water and stand the tamales inside the pot with the open end up. Steam for one hour, adding water as needed and let cool for about 5 minutes before serving. Makes about a dozen tamales.
Magnificent Mango Margaritas
Mangos are inexpensive and in season now! Whip up a batch today, kick back and relax!
1 ½ oz. Triple Sec
8 oz. Limeade
½ tray Ice Cubes
1 large Mango cut into cubes
Add mango cubes to blender and puree until smooth. (if puree is stringy, strain before adding other ingredients) Add tequila, triple sec, limeade, and ice cubes and blend until ice is crushed completely. Makes 2 servings.
Guacamole
Here is a simple, authentic Guacamole recipe for you to try. This is a "Mother" recipe, almost all traditional Guacamoles are based on these simple ingredients.
2 green onions, sliced thin (use all of the white and most of the light green parts)
1/8 teaspoon ground cumin
1 tablespoon cilantro, chopped fine
1 teaspoon lime juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
Slice and peel avocado, then chop into 1/2 cubes. Place the cubes in a bowl and use a fork to mash into small chunks (don't mash them up all the way yet). Add onions, cumin, cilantro, lime juice and salt. Continue mashing ingredients with a fork, making sure to mix up ingredients every 10-15 seconds or so. Taste and add more salt as needed.
You can place the guacamole in the refrigerator for an hour or so to rest, or you can grab some tortilla chips and start munching right away!
Our Favorite Mexican Food Cookbooks
These are the cookbooks we use when we want to make truly authentic Mexican Food that tastes amazing!
Sylvia Cooks Sonoran Style by Sylvia Abril
We have made just about everything in this book (a more...1 point
The Essential Cuisines of Mexico: Revised and updated throughout, with more than 30 new recipes. by Diana Kennedy
Diana Kennedy is the Goddess of Mexican Food Cookb more...1 point
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Links To Some Of Our Favorite Products
- Flour Tortillas
- These are the best packaged tortillas we have tasted!
- Achiote Rojo
- This is the classic Achiote. You will never run out of things you can season with this stuff!
- Mexican Chocolate
- Using just two wedges of this authentic chocolate, you can whip up a cup of great tasting hot chocolate in no time!
- Mesa Mexican Foods
- We sell authentic Mexican spices, seasonings, and foods. Make real Mexican food at home, such as, tacos, burritos, fajitas, and more.
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Feel free to send us a comment, message, or to just say hello! You can also drop us a line if you would like a recipe for a Mexican food dish, and we will try and post it for you.
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cmoneyspinner Nov 10, 2011 @ 3:39 pm | delete
- Squidliked and posted the link to my Facebook page for Everyday Exotic Spices.
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JoeLaBarbera
Oct 15, 2011 @ 6:57 pm | delete
- Great lens. Useful information.
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RecipePublishing
Jul 28, 2011 @ 10:24 am | delete
- The magic ingratiating to all cooking, add a little Mexican to it!
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RecipePublishing
Jul 28, 2011 @ 10:14 am | delete
- Oh, how wonderfully great.
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ratetea
Mar 11, 2011 @ 3:23 pm | delete
- I would love to see some recipes for salsa, if you want to add anything more to this lens! Salsa is often one of my favorite aspects of Mexican food.
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California_Dreamin
Apr 2, 2009 @ 6:55 am | delete
- Scrumptious lens. I've favorited it because I definitely want to try the guacamole recipe the next time I make Mexican food. I've also lens rolled it to my lens, "Great Chili: Texas Style."
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Lakota429
Mar 3, 2009 @ 4:57 pm | delete
- Awesome lens! 5 stars and a lensroll!!! Thanks for the great info! Hope to see you at Cactus and Coyote's lens! Annie~
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gbenton789
Dec 5, 2008 @ 5:52 pm | delete
- Awesome lense 5*, also lensrolled. All those great southwest flavors, check out the Squidoo Southwest Cooking Challenge - http://www.squidoo.com/tastesofthedesert
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PartsAndMotorcycles
Aug 12, 2008 @ 1:22 am | delete
- Thanks for the Mexican recipes. Here are some more recipes for Mexican food.
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