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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?

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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?

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