Craving Mexican Food, Recipes Required!

ohsheglows.com just had a fantastic vegan enchalade (sp) with a creamy avocado sauce!

Hi - i love mexican also :-) If you check out the food list, i've added a recipe for Chicken Fajita Casserole. It's always a hit at my house even with two young kids! It can be eaten alone or with tortilla chips.

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Try this one: http://www.food.com/recipe/tortilla-soup-470832

It's my favourite soup ever and it's low in calories!

Here's a version of salsa I make at home: Roast the tomatoes, onion, garlic, and jalapeno all drizzled with olive oil in the oven first. Then remove the skins from the tomato and jalapeno. If you want it spicy leave the jalapeno seeds, otherwise remove them for mild. Put all of that with cilantro, salt, pepper and more olive oil in the food processor and serve either warm or cold.

I'm going to a mexican restaurant tomorrow evening for dinner, what do you suggest?

I don't really like fish, so was thinking maybe just a salad, but considering I eat salad for lunch / dinner most days, it'd be nice to have something different.


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We have tacos once per week in our house. Most of the time fish tacos, and that's one of our days to get fish in . I don't eat any grain or startches due to digestive issues, so I make the below tortillas/crepes. They are filling and protien packed - much better than the carb-loaded ones you find. Roast fish/chicken/beef with taco seasoning, shred, add avacado to these tortillas and enjoy...delish!

http://urbanposer.blogspot.com/2011/08/savory-crepes-with-garlic-rosemary.html

My favorite is My fish taco recipe!

Bake talapia: in oven sprinkled with chili powder, onion powder, lime juice, and a little sea salt (drizzle olive oil lightly)

My favorite mango salsa: chop up the fruit from 1 mango, a handful of fresh cilantro, 2 large tomatoes, a finely chopped slice of onion (or 2 scallions),( you can add a pepper of your choice if you want spicy) the Juice of 1 lime, and sea salt to taste

To assemble-
Your choice of tortilla based on diet needs, 1/2 filet of tilapia, some shredded romaine lettuce, and 2-3 tbsp of your fresh salsa.

I have done this with shrimp instead of talapia too

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There's some good ideas and sites I want to share with my son here.
Thanks :flowerforyou:

Bump--I too need spicy recipes that are easy and low carb!

Hi there ! I´m mexican. And , well, sorry to tell you that fajitas and burritos and chili are not real mexican food.
:-(


Thats more like tex-mex food, but that is another whole thing. (and I like it too, by the way).

If you want a light and delicious food I could recommend you to google "ceviche de pescado" (fish ceviche, or shrimp) which is a mixture of your choice fish and shrimp with avocado, mayonaise, lemon, salt, pepper and other things, or a mexican shrimp coctail

Here is the "Aguachile de camaron" recipe here, which is really easy and really yummi. (and lots of protein and low calorie!)

You will need

1 fresh cucumber
sea salt
18 shrimp (big ones)
1 rosemary little branch (optional)
1 cherry tomato (optional)
8 pieces of REAL MEXICAN LEMON (this is the most important!) Its the small, very green , very acid lemon, used in key lime pie)
1/4 red onion
6 tostadas de maíz or a bag of totopos
2 serrano pepper
1 jalapeño pepper

You will need :
Blender

Preparation:

+ Put in the blender the juice of the lemons, the serrano peppers (remove seeds) , the jalapeño (remove seeds) , a bit of salt, and half the onion that you already cutted. Blend.
+ Peel the cucumber (with a potato peeler) , and put 1/4 of the cucumber in the blender too and blend.

+ + Clean and devain the shrimp. Give it a butterfly shape. Put them on a glass bowl.
+ Pour the mix you blended over the shrimp.
+ Cut the rest of the cucumber in slices or into small squares, as you wish. Also the other 1/8 of the onion :-) -- Put over shrimp.
+ Garnish with the cherry tomato and the rosemary branch. (optional)
+ Put sea salt to taste.
+ Leave it for five minutes and eat on tostadas or totopos. (and salsa if you want to!)

Try it !

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I do love my Mexican! Just ditch the chips (I doubt actual Mexicans use them anyway) make your own seasonings to cut down on the salt and leave out the cheese and sour cream and its all perfectly healthy!

Actually we do eat tortilla chips and call them " totopos ". We don't eat them regularly, but often at a more formal family dinner, with guacamole ( which is a special dish ) and on holidays. What we don't eat, is most the things mentioned in this thread, especially not all that melty cheese on everything. But here in Mexico City burritos are the rage now and I expect people to eat more Tex-Mex food soon.

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