What are Mexico's staple foods?

Answer 1

Mstly our food -I live in Mexico- is based on corn and depends on the region. The most common foods are:
Sopes (so-pez): They are small, fat tortillas that are cooked on a skillet, then cut on the middle to be filled with a variety of fillings including both normal and fried pork-which is called chicharron (shee-sha-run)-, chicken, beef and beans.
Frijoles Charros (free-wholes sha-roes): They are boiled beans to which diced -and fried- tomatoes, onions, sausages and bacon are added. Small peppers or beer is sometimes added.
Tortas (Tore-tass): They are buns filled with avocado slices, ham, cheese, and pork. Cream and/or salsa is poured over and you can choose to add lettuce, tomato and onion slices.
Enchiladas (n-shee-la-duhs): They are rolled tacos filled either with cheese or chicken. If it is filled with cheese the color of the tortilla is red and on top fried diced potatoes are place, if it is with chicken the color of the tortilla is normal and they are covered with green salsa and cream.
Tamales (tah-mah-less): They are made using a special dough made with corn flour, deep red salsa -or no salsa if they are sweet tamales-pig fat and vegetal fat. A leaf -usually corn or banana- is then covered with this mixture on one side, and over it the filling is placed. Fillings include: ground beef in deep red salsa (made with dry red chili peppers, both spicy and not spicy), chicken with potatoes, cheese with green peppers, sweet coconut,nuts and grapes.
Mole (mall-eh): Is a special mixture made mith mashed peanuts, almonds, dry red chili peppers, pumpkin seeds and chocolate. This dough is then dissolved in boiling chicken broth to form a sauce that is placed over chicken.
Barbacoa (Barb-ah-coah): It's beef -usually tongue-which is cooked by slow boiling with bayleaves, garlic and spices. It takes about eight hours to cook -three with a good crockpot- and it's very juicy and tasty. In the north -which is where I live- it's very common to have it as late breakfast on Sundays.
Menudo (men-ooo-dough): Very tasty and delicious. Tourists find it kind of gross because it is a soup made with dilluted deep red salsa and pieces of cow tripe and pork feet. Diced onions are added to it when it's served. Usually sold in Sundays just like barbacoa. It's said it cures hangovers.
Chilaquiles (shee-la-key-less): A very common food and easy to make too. They are small pieces of fried corn tortillas covered with chicken, cream and green or red salsa. They are also said to cure hang overs.
Tacos(tah-coes): They can be fried or fresh, big or little, with corn or wheat tortillas and are filled with a range of fillings including grilled meat, chicharron, chicken, etc.
Chiles Rellenos (Shee-less re-ye-nose): They are one of the most complicated foods. Green Bell peppers are first placed over a hot skillet until their skin blisters, then they are skinned, then they are filled with ground beef -usually picadillo (pee-cah-dee-yo) which is ground beef with diced potatoes- or cheese, passed over wheat flour, then over a light mixture of egg whites -made with the help of a beater), and then they are fried.
Empanadas (em-pah-nah-duhs): They are sweet tacos cooked in the oven and are commonly served as desserts. They are made using corn and wheat flour. Some empanada fillings are: milk candy -which is made by slowly boiling milk and adding sugar to it until it thickens and turns almost chocolate brown-, pumpkin candy, apple and pineapple. With the dough of the empanadas you can make cookies called hojarascas (oh-ha-rahs-cahs) which are served sprinkled with sugar and powdered cinnamon.
Usually it is on Christmas and on September -the month in which our independence started- when people eat a lot of these kind of foods due to the many "fiestas" or parties that are thrown.
Common drinks include beer, tequila, atole (ah-toe-leh) -which is a hot drink made with corn dough and sugar-, hot cocoa -which is made with milk and a similar paste to the mole one but only without spicy peppers- and Coke -because we drink a lot of Pepsi and Coke-.

Daily foods include:
Rice
Beans -both boiled and fried (which means that beans are mashed and then heated using vegetable oil or pig fat in the bottom of the pan)-.
Ground Beef (with potatoes or with vegetables).
Chicken
Eggs (Fried or scrambled)

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What are Mexico's staple foods?

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Answer 6

people will eat what they can grow. Befor globalized trade, all people had to eat was what they themselves could grow. Since certain food is limited to its respective climate, then certain civilizations could only eat certain foods? Like The eskimos of North America don't eat tons of mangos. It's just not in thier natural niche.

Answer 7

In my opinion, the Mexican diet is one of the healthiest. But people have not mentioned much about the veggies. They are a temperate climate and have lots of fruit and vegetables year 'round.

Mangoes, limes, pineapples, tomatoes, and many many more.

Now you have done it. I am hungry. Gotta go eat some of the homemade pico de gallo.

Answer 8

Rice, beans, tortillas, the corn tortillas. We Americans think it is flour tortillas, but they are only used on special occasions, corn are their primary. Caldo is good, fajitas, carne guisada. List goes on and on.

Answer 9

Corn (Mazo), Rice, Beans

Answer 10

marley forgot carne asada, tortillas, enchiladas, chilaquiles, tortas, sopes, and a million other things!!

Answer 11

Beans,corn,peppers,rice,all good!!!