Mexican Food

1. Mexican Food Spanish Names For American Food

2. Mexican food…is from Mexico!

3. Ingredients

4. That looks great!/That looks terrible! • Rate the food as you see it. • Tell me: • That looks great! OR • That looks terrible!

5. Jalapeno • The jalapeno pepper is green. • The red one is a red hot chili pepper. • Jalapeno peppers are not as spicy as chili peppers. • Jalapeno poppers are jalapenos stuffed with cheese.

6. Refried beans

7. Sour Cream

8. Cheese • Mexicans use cheddar and Monterrey jack cheeses.

9. Tomatillo • A tomatillo is a little green tomato with a papery shell.

10. Onions • White • Purple • Yellow • Pearl • Green

11. Cilantro • Cilantro is a green plant with fat leaves.

12. Pico de Gallo • Pico de gallo is tomatoes, red and white onions, jalapenos, and cilantro. Cilantro is a green plant.

13. Guacamole • Guacamole is squashed avocadoes with lime juice.

14. Avocado

15. Limes

16. Meats • Chicken • Pork • Beef

17. Seafood • Fish • Shrimp

18. Tortillas • Tortillas are made of flour or corn and cooked on a flat metal plate. • You wrap the tortilla around your food, just like Koreans wrap seaweed around rice.

19. Quesadilla • A quesadilla is a Mexican pizza. • There is cheese, vegetables, and meat (chicken, beef, pork) or seafood (shrimp) melted between two tortillas. • It is served with sour cream, Mexican rice, pico de gallo, and refried beans.

20. Fajita • A fajita is grilled meat or seafood and vegetables. • It is served with rice, refried beans, pico de gallo, and tortillas.

21. Burrito • A burrito is the same as a fajita, but the meat doesn’t come out sizzling (cooking) on a plate. • Burritos can have just beans and cheese in them. • You can put eggs in them and eat them for breakfast!

22. Tamale • Tamales are corn husks (the outside of corn) wrapped around meat and cheese.

23. Enchilada • Enchiladas are like small burritos with a red sauce (salsa roja) or green sauce (salsa verde).

24. Mole • Mole is a spicy sauce with…chocolate!

25. Nachos

26. Tortilla Chips

27. Stuffed Jalapenos

28. Bell Peppers • There are red, green, orange, and yellow bell peppers.

29. Discussion • Mexican food is from ___________? • Where is Mexico? • It is below the ___________. • What are some Mexican vegetables? • They are ____________, ______________, _________, and ____________. • What meats to Mexicans use? • They use __________ , ________, and _________. • What seafood do Mexicans use? • They use ___________ and __________,

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50. Create a Dish • Get into groups. • Using the vegetables, rice, tortillas, beans, sauces, and meat we have gone over, create a Mexican dish. • Corn, black beans, refried beans, bell peppers, jalapenos, tomatillos, pico del gallo, mole, sour cream, rice, tortillas, fish, shrimp, beef, chicken, pork.