Taco Loco: Mexican street food from scratch

by Jonas Cramby

Overview

Join Jonas Cramby on a trip through one of the world’s most exciting street food cuisines! Recreate your all-time street-food favourites with delicious recipes that are bursting with authenticity.

Crunch your way through the crispiest corn tostada, feast on a classic quesadilla, and then cool off with a thirst-quenching fruit agua fresca.

Jonas will teach you all the tips and tricks to recreate these mouth-watering dishes at home, from the best recipes for antojitos (snacks), to dulces (sweets) and bebidas (drinks). Plus, you'll discover how to make traditional sugar skulls to celebrate Día de los Muertos, the simplest way to to make the ultimate tortillas, and the trendiest tunes to ask a mariachi band to play! And, of course, you will learn how to make tacos. Lots of tacos. An incredible amount of tacos. Mexicans are crazy about tacos, and after you’ve read this book you will be too.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781911682172
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	11/25/2021
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	1,091,476
Product dimensions:	7.69(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Jonas Cramby works as a freelance food writer and chronicler. His blog on the Swedish magazine Café has 20,000 unique readers every month. In 2009 he was awarded the title Chronicler of the Year by Sweden’s magazines, and he has recently become the restaurant critic for Metro. His blog is often about American food: he is a devoted lover of Taco after having travelled around in the States and looked inside kitchens to ask how they make their delicious food. In fact, Jonas loves Mex food so much that he has given his daughter the middle name Margarita, and if he ever gets another daughter then she is going to be called Carnita – after Jonas’ favourite taco filling! He is the author of Tex-Mex From Scratch and Texas BBQ.

Table of Contents

Foreword 6

Part 1 Básicos (Basics)

Todo sobre la tortilla - all about tortillas 12

Bring home from Mexico 17

Salsas y curtidos - salsas and pickles 19

Guacamole - avocado salsa 24

Mexican ingredients 27

Quesos y crema - homemade Mexican cheese and crema 28

Little chilli school 31

Part 2 Antojitos (Snacks)

Gorditas y tlacoyos - Gorditas and tlacoyos 34

Tostadas - fried corn tortillas with ceviche and other topping 38

Flautas - deep-fried rolled corn tortillas with poached chicken 42

Quesadillas - half-moon shaped filled tortillas 44

Tlayudas - charcoal-grilled corn dough pizzas 46

Chicharrones y totopos - deep-fried pork rinds, tortilla crisps and other snacks 50

Torta ahogada - meat sandwich swimming in chilli sauce 56

Torta milanesa - sandwich with breaded chicken schnitzel 58

Elotes y esquites - grilled corn on the cob with queso fresco and corn salad with mayonnaise 60

Part 3 Tacos

Tacos de carnitas - tacos with confit crispy pork 66

Tacos al pastor - tacos with homemade Mexican kebab and grilled pineapple 68

Tacos de guisado - tacos with four different kind of stew 72

Barbacoa de Oaxaca - slow-cooked lamb steak with vegetable soup 78

Tacos de lengua - tacos with slow-cooked fried beef tongue 82

Tacos de pescado - tacos with deep-fried fish and cabbage salad 84

Polio con mole negro - tacos with chicken, rice and black mole sauce 86

Carnes asadas - tacos with grilled, thinly sliced meat and vegetables 88

Part 4 Dulces (Sweet Things)

Fruta cristalizada - Mexican candied fruit 98

Paletas - handmade ice lollies 102

Calaveras azúcar - sugar skulls 104

Panela de tres leches - cake with three kinds of milk 108

Chocoflán imposible - magic chocolate cake with crème brûlée 110

Churros con canela - piped deep-fried doughnuts with sugar and cinnamon 112

Part 5 Bebidas (Drinks)

Todo sobre el, chocolate - all about home-roasted chocolate 120

Aguas frescas - fresh, natural and super-refreshing fruit beverages 126

Tepache - home-brewed pineapple beer 132

Micheladas - three kinds of refreshing, super-spicy-salty beer drinks 134

Margaritas y paloma - Mexico's two most classic cocktails 138

Todo sobre el mezcal - everything about mescal 140

Part 6 Día de los Muertos

Three days at the festival of the dead in Oaxaca 148

Index 159

Editorial Reviews

"vividly photographed."  —Publishers Weekly

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