Mexican food is a style of food that originated in Mexico.

Mexican cuisine is known for its intense and varied flavors, colorful decoration, and its variety of spices. Mexican gastronomy, in terms of diversity of appealing tastes and textures, is one of the richest in the world in proteins, vitamins, and minerals, though it is characterized by some as excessively spicy.

Foods that are part of the Mexican culinary tradition include:

Appetizers (botanas) and side dishes

• Arroz amarillo
• Arroz con lima
• Arroz con pollo
• Arroz Español (Spanish rice)
• Arroz verde
• Bolillos
• Calabasa (squash)
• Calabaza
• Camote, Mexican Sweet potato
• Dry soup, sopa, typically pasta with flavoring of meat or tomato consomme
• Consomme, broth, either made from drippings of meat roasted for barbacoa, or dry bouillon cubes and powder (usually known by its most common brand name, (Knorr-Suiza)
• Curtido
• Ensalada de fruta Fruit salad
• Fideos Noodles
• Frijoles pintos, pinto beans
• Frijoles negros, black beans
• Frijoles charros
• Frijoles de olla
• Guacamole
• Jicama
• Lentejas, Lentil beans
• Refried beans (frijoles refritos)
• Nachos
• Nopalitos
• Pambazos
• Papas (potatoes)
• Pico de gallo
• Salsa
• Yuca Cassava

 Entrees

• Albóndigas
• Arroz con camarones
• Bacanora
• barbacoa
• birria
• bistec picado
• burrito
• caldo, soup, (generally considered an entree rather than an appetizer) which has many variations, such as
  • caldo de pollo, chicken soup
  • caldo de res, beef soup
  • caldo de queso, cheese soup
  • caldo de camaron shrimp soup, typically made from dried shrimp
  • carne en su jugo, meat and beans in a meat broth
  • caldo de mariscos, seafood soup, similar to the Italian dish zuppa di pesce. Popularly supposed to be an aphrodisiac.
    • Also see menudo and pozole
• carne asada
• carnitas
• cecina
• cemitas sandwiches
• chapulines and escamoles
• charales, small fish, basically a type of smelt
• chicharrón and chicharrones
• chilaquiles
• chiles en nogada
• chiles rellenos
• chilorio
• chilli con carne
• chimichangas
• choriqueso
• chorizo
• churipo
• cochinita pibil
• cocido
• cóctel de camarón and other seafood cocktails
• coyotas
• empanadas
• enchilada (red or green)
• flautas
• fritadas de camaron
• gorditas
• glorias
• gringas
• huevos divorciados
• huevos motuleños
• huevos rancheros
• lengua
• longaniza
• machaca
• mancha manteles
• mariscos
• menudo
• milanesa
• mixiotes
• mole
• molletes
• moronga
• parilladas
• pasties, a speciality of Cornwall, adopted as comida tipica of Pachuca
• picadillo
• platano
• pollo asado
• pollo picado
• pollo rostizado
• polvorones
• pozole
• pulpo, octopus
• quesadillas
• rajas con crema
• romeritos
• sopes
• sopa azteca
• sopa de pollo
• sopa tarasca
• tacos
• tamales
• taquitos
• tortillas
• tortas (sandwiches)
• "Tortas de...." Small omelettes similar to egg foo yung patties. See also romeritos.
• tostadas
• tlacoyos
• tlayudas
• tripas
• venado, particularly in the Yucatan.

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