Mexican Food Recipes

For Spanish 1 me and my group have to cook something Mexican. I’m not Mexican, I’m Puerto Rican/Peruvian, so I don’t know any Mexican foods to make and I never really took the time to tell Mexican food from South American apart.

Are there any easy Mexican foods to make? And it has to taste good please & thank you.

apple pie empanadas
take a "Grands" refrigerator biscuit and pat it out kinda flat…add 2 tsp of apple pie filling…fold over and crimp the edges with a fork…sprinkle with cinnamon…bake until golden brown…like little fried pies!

I made about 50 of these one night for the junior high spanish club…it was fun and they were a tremendous hit
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burritos are always a winner with kids! I use different meats, but they like regular spiced ground beef. 1 pound beef, 1 pound bag of dried pintos cooked, 1 med onion diced, 1 pound cheese, 1-2 cups of cooked rice, chili or other spices, about 3 dozen flour tortillas. (if you want to save yourself from cooking the beans, look for the big bulk cans of pre-cooked pintos in the hispanic area of the store, or use 3 big cans of refried beans.)
Mash up the beans with some of the bean juice. Cook the meat with your favorite taco seasoning, add to the beans. shredd cheese into beans, add onion and rice. mix all this well, heat up flour tortillas and roll into burritos with both ends tucked. Cool the burritos the throw in freezer bags. Its cheaper than store bought, you know whats in them, and everyone loves them!
they take 1 1/2-2 minutes to thaw in the microwave

Sometimes I lay them in a casserole dish and pour enchilada sauce over, top with more cheese and heat in the oven-home made encheritos
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Flan is a traditional mexican custard. Here is a link to several recipes for it. You can change the number of servings to how ever many you need and it will change the measurements for you.

http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?q=…

Also, Chicken enchilades and mexican soup would be a good idea.

Enchilades:

Sauce:

sour cream, chicken broth, monterey jack cheese, green chiles (you can use rotel instead if you want tomatoes in it).

Heat broth of med. heat and stir in sour cream. When this gets creamy, add the cheese and chiles. Stir until cheese melts. Remove from heat.

Enchilades:

Spray bottom of casserole dish w/ pam.
Pour a bit of sauce in bottom of pan.
Layer flour tortillas.
Sauce.
Chicken (you can cook this yourself, OR use canned chicken to save time if you’d like- still tastes good)
Sauce
Tortillas
chicken
sauce
tortillas
Etc…. Until you have enough layers (pan is full, etc…)
Top the final layer of tortillas with more sauce then sprinkle additional cheese on top.

Bake at 350 for 20 minutes (or until heated through).

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