7 easy mestizo food recipes

Adriana sanchez

What is mestizo food? If you have asked yourself this question, just go back a little in time to the Spanish conquest when the colonizers brought various ingredients from Spain that they mixed with native ingredients and adapted to pre-Hispanic dishes, resulting in Creole food or mestizo food.In fact, we are sure you have tried more than one mestizo dish, as you will notice with the following list of mestizo food recipes.

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Aztec Soup with Pasilla ChileAmong the pre-Hispanic ingredients, we find corn, tomato, nopal, and of course, chile, which, when fused with some Spanish cooking techniques, resulted in Aztec soup. Do you like it?View recipe

Red Pozole with Pork and ChickenPork was one of the ingredients brought by Spanish colonizers to Mexico, and it is believed that it replaced human flesh that indigenous people used to prepare pozole in its original version. Without a doubt, a much more relevant fusion, don’t you think?View recipe

Chiles en NogadaAlthough it is considered that chiles en nogada are originally from Puebla, they have some Spanish elements without which they could not have been created, such as the walnut from Castilla. For this reason, it is considered mestizo food.View recipe

Mole Poblano with ChickenWe know that mole has elements of pre-Hispanic food, but when mixed with white meats, it became a mestizo dish that few can resist.View recipe

Hidalgo Style BarbacoaAnother of the favorite mestizo dishes of people is undoubtedly barbacoa, but this Hidalgo style barbacoa recipe will leave you speechless.View recipe

Homemade TamalesTamales, that mestizo food we can find almost all over Latin America, mixes the best of corn with the meat brought by the Spaniards. Currently, there are thousands of different types of tamales, but each version is unique and delicious.View recipe

Homemade ChurrosOne of the mestizo foods that we cannot stop thanking the Spaniards for is undoubtedly churros, that delicious dessert that was Mexicanized to combine with the best table chocolate, jam, and dulce de leche.Do you know other mestizo food recipes?View recipe

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