6 Things you Didn’t Know About the Best Mexican Food in the Valley

Mexican food is full of surprises. From taco to tamales, from Mexican hot chocolate to mole, and from elote to Huaraches, you might have tried almost every Mexican dish. But, do you know there are a few things that you might have no idea about? Some are related to history and some are related to beliefs that nobody have told you before.

Are you ready to know the unrevealed secret behind the best Mexican food in the valley?

Let’s check it out, here:

1. Elote

This street corn looks so delicious but truly only boils down to chili powder, cheese, and lime, at home. This dish is a snack mainly prepared with cotija recipe. It’s easy as pie to cook this food. So, when you try this light yet tasty snack, enjoy even more.

2. Tamales

This dish is prepared with corn dough, wrapped in leaves, and then steamed. Many thousands of years ago, this dish was prepared on special occasions in Mexico. Moreover, a history of the Aztecs written in the 16th century by Bernardino de Sahagún, a priest, tells of tamales stuffed with fruit, honey, even bees. How unpredictable?

3. Huaraches

Traditional huaraches are thick ovals of masa (like long-drawn-out taco shells) about the size of flip-flops and topped with cheese, beans, your favorite meat, crema, lettuce, and anything else they can hold. The name itself, adorably, means “sandal” in Spanish. Well, no Cinderella can resist from taking a bite of this dish.

4. Mexican hot chocolate

Mexican hot chocolate is served without milk, often, and is simply chocolate foamed up with hot water. Chefs sometimes use a unique-looking spinning foaming tool, called a molinillo that looks sort of like a rustic ancestor of the whisk. So are you ready to try the best Mexican food in the valley? Surely you might be.

5. Mole

Not all moles employ chocolate. Mexico is known as the land of the seven moles and only a few of those complex and delicious sauces use chocolate. Among them a red (colorado) mole, a yellow mole, and a green (verde) mole. So, which one you would try first?

6. Tacos

The word “taco” dates to the 18th century in Mexico, and referred to the little charges miners used to excavate ore from mines. According to some researches, tacos were pieces of paper that wrapped around gunpowder and insert into the holes carved in the rock face. By the end, of the 19th century, the term tacos de minero — miner’s tacos — was seen in archives and dictionaries. Amazing, isn’t it?

Of course, some secret might have shocked you but in the end everything that can be appreciated is that we are eating a food prepared with the most ancient and traditional recipes. There might be some more secrets, which you might discover anytime.

Bottom line is “We love Mexican food and we can give whatever it takes to try the best Mexican food in the valley so far.”

So, Chow-down the goodness of Mexican food!