What side dishes do you cook with americanized mexican food??

Question

like quesidillas, tacos, ect... quick, easy, and not too spicy.

Answer 1

spanish rice and refried beans or black beans.

Answer 2

Rice and beans have long been a staple, but other items are gaining in popularity.

Charro beans - are basically pinto beans with tomato, onion, and cilantro added for flavor. I imagine that you could buy a can of pintos from the store and kick them up a notch.

Mash Potato's are also showing up on Mexican dishes. You can buy instant mashed potato. Idahoan is the brand that I like best. You add two cups of boiling water and your done. They make a southwest flavor, but you could accomplish the same thing by adding red bell peppers diced, crumbled bacon and Monterrey jack cheese.

Homemade pico de gallo is also a favorite - tomato's, onions, jalapenos, cilantro, lime juice, and spices that suit you. Mix in a food processor and viola! I make my own version all the time and it never comes out the same, but it is always good.

Good luck with you experimenting!

Answer 3

For side dishes, I cook beans and rice, bit it seems you're asking about main dishes to me.
With Taco's that is the main dish, unless you want to make a platter of many main dishes. Like Tacos, Enchiladas, and Quesadillias together?

Chickem Quesadillas

chopped boneless chunk chicken breasts, 2, cooked until white, you can use shredded if you like (chicken in optional)
4 to 6 flour tortillias
1 1/2 cups of grated cheddar cheese
1/2 a cup medium salsa, or 3 whole pickled jalapenos diced

Spread the salsa, or diced jalapenos on the tortillias
sprinkle the chickem aound the tortiilias also
lay the grated cheese over that
Roll up each tortillia, then microwave until the quesadillia's are hot and the cheese is melted, depends on how many you are making

Enchilada's (for one pan full, double if needed)
10 corn torillias, warmed in a 350 oven, covered in foil, for about 10 minutes, 3 at a time (if you do more at a time, they will get hard again)
1 can of Enchiliada sauce, a large one, about 20 oz.
1/2 a diced yellow onion
2 cloves of garlic, chopped, if desired
1 pound of ground beef (you can use cooked shredded beef, but its not the same to me)

Cook your hamburger meat, adding the onions and garlic when nearly finished cooking, drain out the fat
Lay 1 tortillia on a plate, and with a spoon coat it on both sides with enchilada sauce
put a small pile of cheese in the center, then your meat mixture, not too much, or it will over flow
roll up the enchilada and place tightly in a corner of your baking pan, each tortillia should be snug
In one baking pan you should be able to fit all the enchilada in it, about 10 to eight of them.
Pour them remainder of the enchilada sauce over them, and top with the left over cheese.
Bake in a 375 degree oven for about 20 minutes, until hot.
These are not spicy at all unless you add hot sauce to them after.

Tacos are easy, cook some corn tortillias in oil, when they soften, fold them in a V, and drain them upside down on a paper towel, fill them with cooked hamburger meat, onions, lettuce tomato, and cheese. (hot sauce if desired, my unusual family likes them with ketchup)

Answer 4

I find that opening a can of black beans (or refried) and heating the beans in the microwave (minus the can, of course), is a good side dish. You can liven it up with a bit of grated cheese sprinkled on top.

Rice is also a good side dish. You can take plain rice and then stir in a bit of salsa for color.

To find out more about eating Tex-Mex, go to the Food Virgin website, at http://www.foodvirgin.com/columns/Mexican.htm. You can also ask more in-depth questions there.

Answer 5

Rotel Dip

Answer 6

Refritos or barachos. And it's Tex-Mex, not "Americanized Mexican food".

Oh...chips and salsa, as long as it's Pace or Old El Paso (if you're not making home-made). None of that yankee-made crap for me.

Answer 7

My kids aren't too fond of Spanish Rice so I'll just make a batch of white rice and then we dress it up to our individual taste. I put taco sauce and cheese on mine.

Answer 8

I like just plain steamed rice as a side. I've thrown several dinner parties and my guests can't get enough. I trick it out with fresh lime juice and sprinkle with cilantro. I can't give you measurements, cause I just "use the force" when throwing stuff in...to taste, I guess.

Answer 9

you should have some Tortilla Chips with different dips. One mild salsa and hot salsa. You should also have a dip of black beans and cheese

Answer 10

Mexican or Spanish rice (Rice-a-Roni) and maybe some corn bread or muffins. You can some cheese and/or chillies to them to make them more TexMex.

Answer 11

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