Poblanos Rellenos de Picadillo

PLEASE NOTE: We are relaunching our website in the next few weeks and are working on a user-friendly recipe section so our selection is not as broad as it will be in a short while.
This is my take-off on chiles en nogada, the stuffed poblano chiles topped with walnut sauce that are traditionally served [...]

Pollo Relleno de Papas (Achiote-marinated chicken stuffed with potatoes)

Here is a delicious albeit time-consuming recipe using achiote.  Check out the recipe section for Picadillo de Pobre where it is also used.
Pollo Relleno de Papas
Potato-Stuffed Oven-Roasted Chicken
Every time I’ve been to the market at Juchitán I’ve found quite a few women selling this dish — except, for some reason, on my most recent 1996 [...]

Ask Zarela: Lard one more time.

Question:
I tried the recipe for Huitlacoche tamales the other day and the turned out great, though I may have steamed then for too long (1st time for me making tamales). My problem is cholesterol. Am on medication and my Dr. and I are working at getting my levels down. Is there ANY acceptable substitute for [...]

Yes! You can eat at Mexican food at Zarela if you’re on a diet!

Thanks to Tex-Mex, all Mexican food has gotten  the reputation of being greasy, heavy and fattening at least among those who haven’ t  traveled in Mexico or haven ‘t dined at restaurants such as Zarela and other fine Mexican dining establishments around the country.
This is especially unfortunate at this time of the year when everyone [...]

Rosca de Reyes (Three Kings Cake)

Latina magazine ran this recipe developed by our former pastry chef, Ed Bonuso that results in a perfect rosca de reyes but amply demonstrates why I do not bake bread! But for those of you who do….

Recipe: Rosca de Reyes (Three Kings’ Cake)
Summary: This coffee cake-like recipe is good any time of the year,

Ingredients

1/2 cup [...]

Pasta Enjamonada

Pasta Enjamonada
Pasta Baked in Ham Sauce
Sometimes an excellent cook gives me a fine recipe that doesn’t quite click with me in its original form.  This dish is a good example.  It started out as a sort of chicken casserole that is a specialty of María del Carmen Virués de Izaguirre.  In fact, I liked the [...]

Chorizo

This is really an Ask Zarela question but I’m posting it in the Cooking with Zarela section because I want to keep all the Thanksgiving information together.
Question: Your son’s Brussels sprouts with chorizo recipe sounds delicious! I want to try it for Thanksgiving. Any chance of also getting your recipe for homemade chorizo?
Answer:  There were always [...]

Sweet Potato Casserole

Around this time every year people start calling to ask for my sweet potato casserole recipe.  It was actually not my original recipe but rather I learned to make it from my dear friend, Alex Baker, who had learned it from his friend Johnny.  But it’s mine now and I share it with you to [...]

Pavo Borracho

Many years agom New York Magazine my sister Aida’s recipe for Drunken Turkey and I still get requests for it every year.  So let’s travel to El Paso so I can put it up on the home page!

Recipe: Pavo Borracho (Drunken Turkey)
Summary: My sister Aída is a wonderful cook with an assertive hand. She developed [...]

Ask Zarela: Netskies Casa del Sol, Juarez, Mexico

As soon as I  published the recipe for Escabeche Casa del Sol recipe I got the following query.  I’ve been trying since then to get the recipe for the Netskies from the now sadly long-departed restaurant and finally succeeded.  Here is the conversation:
HI,
My wife’s family, the Wheatleys, frequented the Casa del Sol in Juarez for [...]

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