Mexican Street Food Recipes
Our cookery classes are as much about learning to cook as they are a sociable experience. We hope you enjoyed your class and are ready to recreate the dishes again.
We Cooked: Elote Corn; Cheesy Beef or Lentil Quesadilla; Tacos, Jalapeno, Pomegranate & Lime Slaw
Elote Corn
Ingredients – Serves 2:
- – 2 corn on the cob
- – 2tsp of cream cheese
- – ½ teaspoon chilli flakes
- – Sprinkle of coriander
- – Tablespoon grated parmesan
- – 1/2 lime, cut into 4 wedges
Method:
- Heat your frying pan to high heat and add your corn. Using tongs, turn occasionally until cooked through.
- Let cool down slightly and spread the cream cheese all over the corn, roll in parmesan and garnish with coriander, chilli flakes and finish with a little bit of lime juice
Cheesy Beef Quesadilla
For a vegan or vegetarian alternative use 200g of pre cooked puy lentils.
Ingredients- serves 2
- – 200g of minced beef or pre cooked puy lentils
- – Freshly ground black pepper
- – 2 cloves garlic, minced
- – 1 onion, diced
- – 1 tbsp. Taco Seasoning
- – 2 tbsp. tomato paste
- – 8 oz. can black beans, rinsed and drained
- – 1 avocado, pitted and diced
- – 1/4 c. chopped fresh coriander
- – 4 tsp. of veg oil
- – 4 large flour tortillas
- – 8 oz. shredded white Cheddar
- – 1 lime, cut into wedges
- – Sour cream, for serving
- – salt
Method:
- Place a frying pan over medium-high heat and sauté garlic and onion until softened, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the beef, breaking it up with a wooden spoon until cook it until browned. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add taco seasoning, tomato paste, 1 tbsp water and black beans; cook on medium-low for 5 minutes. Turn off heat and mix in the avocado and coriander.
- Warm a second frying pan over medium heat with 1 teaspoon oil. Place a flour tortilla in the pan and sprinkle half with cheese, beef mixture and more cheese. Fold tortilla over and fry lightly on both sides until cheese is melted. Repeat with remaining tortillas. If you don’t have two panstransfer the beef mixture to a bowl and wash the pan ready for to re use.
- Cut the quesadillas into wedges and serve with lime wedges and sour cream.
Quesadilla & Taco Dough
Ingredients: Makes me 6-8
- – 300g plain or 00 flour – plus extra for dusting
- – Teaspoon of olive oil
- – 200ml water
- – 0.5tsp of baking powder
Method:
- Add the flour, baking powder, olive oil & 200ml water to the mixing bowl, stir all together using a wooden spoon…once it all combines, take the dough with your hand until it becomes springy . If your dough is too sticky, add a little more flour..if too crumbly, add a little more water.
- Set Aside – it doesn’t need to rest for long, but you can wait until you need to cook. Then split into 3 – you will make your tacos, burritos and quesadilla later.
Tacos
- Split dough into 8 balls, heat frying pan to high heat, while the temperature builds, sprinkle flour on clean work surface or board, and some on your rolling pin. Take a ball of dough, flatten into rough circle with your hand then roll until thin, keep turning and flipping over. Add 2 -3 tacos to your pan at a time and cook until you see the taco blister and char. Once both sides cooked, keep wrapped in tea towel – this softens the taco. Cook all your tacos and then you are ready to serve.
Burrito & Quesadilla
- Split dough into 2, roll out to desired size and cook as above. Cover and set aside.
Toppings:
- You can top your tacos with anything you like, Layer your preferred combination as you like – it’s easy to get carried away and overloaded, but that’s half the fun!
- Shredded lettuce, cucumber, tomato, jalapeno chilli, cheese, sour cream, fresh coriander.
Spiced Chicken
Ingredients: serves 2
Vary this to suit the number of people you are cooking for, one chicken thigh would be enough for several mini tacos or one large. The mix works with any meat or fish, so adapt to suit. If veggie, try cauliflower.
- 2 chicken thighs, boneless and skinless or 200g white fish or 1/4 Cauliflower
- 1/2 Red pepper
1 Small Red onion
1 Tomato
2 tsp Taco spice
Garnish – Chives
Lime
Jalapeno, Pomegranate & Lime Slaw
Ingredients- serves 4
- – 1x lime zest and juice
- – 1tsp of caster sugar
- – 3tbsp of olive oil
- – 1x handful of chopped coriander
- – ¼ red cabbage, shredded
- – ¼ white cabbage, shredded
- – 1 plum tomato, diced
- – ½ cucumber, deseeded and diced
- – Handful pomegranate seeds
- – 1 carrot, grated
- – 1x shallot, sliced
- – 1 green chilli, sliced
- – 1tbsp of mayo (optional)
Method:
- In a bowl, combine sugar, lime zest and juice. Whisk until well combined and sugar has melted.
- Start stirring in the oil, gradually, still whisking.
- Add white and red cabbage, pinch of salt and pepper and roughly rub the marinade in, work with your hands until softened.
- Add the rest of the ingredients and correct the seasoning.
- We could use a tbsp. of mayonnaise or yoghurt for a creamy version of the slaw.
Pork Taco al Pastor – Additional Recipe
Ingredients- serves 4
- 1 pork tenderloin, whole, cleaned
• juice of 1/2 lime
• Vegetable oil
• 1 tsp chipotle paste
• 1tsp Annato seed, ground
• 2 tsp smoked paprika
• 2 cloves of garlic, minced
• Olive oil for cooking
• 2 red onions, sliced
• Handful of cherry tomatoes, halved
• 400g of chopped tinned tomatoes
• 1tbsp of jalapenos
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 150g of pineapple, diced
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 185C.
- First mix all of the spices together and split it in 50-50. First half will be for the marinade, second for the sauce.
- Next, we are going to marinade the pork: add a splash of oil in a mixing bowl, 2 cloves of minced garlic, salt and pepper and half of the spices and mix well.
- Coat the pork thoroughly, wrap the bowl in cling film and ideally let marinade in the fridge for a couple of hours.
- Remove from the fridge 30 minutes before cooking to bring to room temperature.
- Place a non-stick frying pan on medium-high heat and add a splash of oil.
- Sauté the pork until coloured all over and remove from the pan, set aside for now.
- Add a bit more oil into your pan and cook off the onion until caramelised, this will take roughly 10 minutes.
- Add garlic and cook for one more minute, followed by the rest of the spices.
- This step is very important as not cooking your spices off will result in grainy sauce.
- Add remaining ingredients.
- Bring to simmer, place the pork on top of the same, bake in the oven for 7-10 minutes, depending on size of the pork and required cooking temperature, rest and carve.
Click Here for - Crispy Avocado Wedges
Ingredients: Serves 4-6
- – 2 large or 4 small avocados, peeled and sliced
- – 1tbsp of grated parmesan
- – 1/4 tsp salt
- – 1/4 cup of plain flour
- – 2 eggs, beaten
- – 1 cup breadcrumbs, gf if desired (Or make your own by processing toasted bread in a food processor) (40g)
- – 1 lemon, zested
- – ½ cup of vegetable oil for frying
Method:
- Split the avocado in half, get rid of the stone and peel it.
- Cut into even wedges.
- Prepare 3 bowls on side first one with flour, second with beaten eggs and third with breadcrumbs.
- Add parmesan and lemon zest into the breadcrumbs.
- Coat avocados in flour, egg and breadcrumbs (the coating order is very important).
- Heat up a small frying pan with the oil and fry avocado until golden brown and warn and creamy inside.
- Enjoy with some creamy dip: such as paprika and lemon mayo, chives sour cream etc.
Click Here For - Taco Seasoning
Ingredients:
- – 1 1/2 tsp. smoked paprika
- – 1 tsp. garlic powder
- – 1 tsp. onion powder
- – 1 tsp. salt
- – 1 tsp. Black pepper
- – 1/2 tsp. dried oregano
Method:
- In a small bowl, mix all ingredients together. Store in an airtight contain.
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