Main Dishes

 

 

Pelmeni

Shashlyck

Shashlyck is a meat dish.
Ingredients:
meat
spices
onion
tomatoes
pickle


Preparation:
1) Slice meat into pieces.
2) Put meat in pickle with spices for one night.
3) Take metal sticks and put meat on them with pieces of tomatoes and onion (if you want tomatoes and onion)
4) Grill on live coals.

Submitted by:Kiril, Russia

 

Hamburger
Ingredients:
Ground beef patties.
Bread
Tomatoes
Lettuce
Cheese
Mayonaise, mustard and ketchup to taste.

You can cook a hamburger by cooking a patty of ground beef first. Then you put bread on top and put things you like to eat beetween the meat and the bread, like onions, tomatoes, lettuce or cheese. Idon't like hamburgers but lots of other peple do and I'm sure you will too.

Submitted by Elon (USA)

 

Sopes

Indredients:
1/2 kilo corn flour
3 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
Water, the necessary to make the dough.
Preparation:
In a bowl put the corn flour, baking powder and salt. Add the warm water to make a soft dough. Using your hands knead until you have a soft and manageable dough. Make little round balls. Using your hands clap them together with the ball in your palm until you have a thick round tortilla. Deep fry in oil until they are cooked.
Open the thick tortilla and stuff with cheese, meat, cactus with seasonings, beans and cheese or your favorite stuffing. Now they are ready to eat.

Submitted by: Alejandra - Mexico

 

Enchiladas

Ingredients:
Red tortillas
Fresh cheese crumbled
Chopped onion to taste
These two ingredients are mixed according to how much onion you like.
Preparation:
You fry the tortilla in oil on both side (do no let it harden) and drain the excess oil. While it is still hot you fill it with the cheese/onion mixture and roll it up firmly. You make five and serve in a warm plate with potatoes cut into bite size cubes and fried in oil till done.
You sprinkle some of the cheese/onion mixture on top and serve with hot peppers* also fried in oil on the side.

Submitted by: Mauricio - Mexico

 

Potato Pizza
Ingredients:
Spaghetti sauce, onion, cheese, peppers or spices.

Preparation:
First you cut a potato in half and make a little hoop in the middle. Then you add a bit of spaghetti sauce and add some cheese. If you want you can add some peppers or onions or anything you want. Then you bake the pizza for half an hour and put it exactly at 330º F.
Enjoy!!

Submitted by: USA

 

Cochinita Pibil

Pork in red spice, recipe from Yucatán, México.

Ingredients for the pork:

1 Kg. pork leg cut into 2 inch cubes
2 large onions sliced in rings
2 cups of sour orange juice
½ pack of achiote (red spice)
1/3 cup of white vinegar (only if the orange juice is too sweet)
Fine herbs, minced black pepper, cumin, salt
Corn flour Tortillas

Ingredients for the purple onion:
1 purple onion
1 habanero pepper
1 cup of white vinegar
Fine herbs, whole black pepper,salt

Instructions for the meat:

Dissolve the achiote (red spice) in the orange juice (and vinegar if necessary). Add the fine herbs, pepper and cumin. marinate the pork meat and the sliced onions in the differnet sauces for 24 hours inside the refrigerator. Cook the meat in a pressure cooker for 40 minutes or in a regular pot until the meat is soft. Shred the meat into thin strips with two forks. Reheat and add salt. Serve with flour tortillas and purple onion.

Instructions for the purple onion:

Slice the purple onion and the habanero pepper (optionally because it is very hot). Marinate them in the white vinegar with the spices and salt for at least two hours before serving.

Submitted by: Melissa - Mexico

 

Goat

Goat meat is very common in Monterrey

5 pounds Goat -- Hind Quarter
1/2 cup mustard -- any kind
Rub
1/2 cup lemon pepper
1/2 cup chili powder
2 tablespoons granulated garlic
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Sauce to marinate
1 cup butter
5 large garlic cloves -- peeled and crushed
2 large bay leaves
3 large lemon -- quartered
1 large lime -- quartered
1 medium onion -- peeled and sliced
12 ounces beer
2 cups corn oil
1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons chili powder
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Rub the meat completely with the mustard. And spices to a large zip-lock bag, seal and shake until mixed. Place meat in bag and coat with the mixture. Refrigerate overnight.
In a two quart saucepan melt butter, add the onions and garlic. Sauté for five minutes then add lemons, limes and beer. When the foam subsides add remaining ingredients and simmer for 20-25 minutes.
Prepare the grill for the indirect heat method and remove the meat from the bag and place on the grill. Smoke for 25 minutes at 250 degrees and start basting with the sauce every 25 minutes. Smoke for 2-3 hours or until internal temperature reaches 155 degrees, then wrap in foil and finish cooking until internal temperature reaches 185 degrees.
Remove from grill and let meat cool for 20 minutes prior to slicing. Serve BBQ sauce on the side.

Submited By: Adrian - Mexico

Pelmeni

dough
meat

Make thin round pieces from dough
Make little meat balls. Put them on dough pieces and close.
Boil for 10 minutes. Eat with ketchup or sour cream or butter.

Submitted by Sasha, Russia