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Tabasco are Veracruz are two of the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. Tabasco is divided into 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa. Veracruz has a significant share of the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico on the east of the state. The state is noted for its mixed ethnic and indigenous populations.

Featured Dishes from Mexico

Avena con leche

Avena con leche

A drinkable oatmeal beverage, though can also be made into a thicker porridge, add, for example, cinnamon, sugar, citrus

Champurrado

Champurrado

A hot chocolate beverage made with cinnamon and thickened with corn masa flour, serve with pan dulce or churros, common during Christmas

Chilaquiles

Chilaquiles

Layered deep-fried tortillas, chicken, hot sauce and cheese, serve with beans, sour cream

Chocolate completo

Chocolate completo

Hot chocolate served with pan blandito, white cheese and almojábana, a cheese roll made with corn and yucca starch

Coffee

Coffee

Concha

Concha

Crema de maiz

Crema de maiz

Cornmeal porridge or corn soup

Facturas

Facturas

Media lunas pastries filled with dulce de leche, drizzled with chocolate, etc

Frijoles

Frijoles

Beans, many different types of beans, prepared in a variety of ways

Frijoles refritos

Frijoles refritos

Huevos

Huevos

Huevos a la Mexicana

Huevos a la Mexicana

Scrambled eggs with tomato, onion and chili peppers

Huevos divorciados

Huevos divorciados

Two fried eggs, each separated by refried beans, with one covered in green sauce and the other in red sauce

Huevos rancheros

Huevos rancheros

Fried eggs with a spicy tomato sauce

Juice

Juice

Memela

Memela

Pan-fried masa cake topped with meats, sauces, vegetables, beans, guacamole, cheese

Menudo

Menudo

Spicy tripe and vegetable stew, may also contain liver, serve with beer and lime

Migas

Migas

Mexican-style migas is a breakfast of scrambled eggs with fried tortillas, note that this is different from the central Mexico version of migas, which is a garlicy pork soup with stale bread, or the Spanish version made with bread crumbs, chorizo and eggs

Molletes

Molletes

Breakfast sandwiches made with bolillo rolls, refried beans, queso ranchero, valentina sauce and avocado slices, these are different from Spanish molletes, which are bread rolls

Pan dulce

Pan dulce

Sweet breads, pastries, cookies, many different types, serve with, for example, coffee, champurrado, hot chocolate

Papas con chorizo

Papas con chorizo

Potatoes and chorizo sausage, use as a filling for tortillas, tacos, burritos, empanadas, gorditas and enchiladas

Pastelito

Pastelito

Sweet pie or empanada, puff pastry filled with fruit, quince, guava, sweet potato, dulce de leche

Reina pepiada

Reina pepiada

Arepas filled with chicken and avocado salad

Tamales de elote

Tamales de elote

Fresh corn tamales, serve with queso fresco, crema, lime wedges

Taquito

Taquito

Rolled and deep-fried taco filled with chicken, beef, pork, serve with sour cream, guacamole, salsa

Tortilla

Tortilla

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Acitron

Candied pulp from biznaga cactus pads, used in chiles en nogada, tamales Warning: Biznaga cacti in Mexico are endangered and were made a protected species in 2005. It is illegal to consume or trade biznaga cacti in Mexico

Alfajor

Alfajor

Sandwich cookie filled with dulce de leche, fruit paste, many different fillings, common during Christmas

Alfeñique

Alfeñique

Molded artistic confections made from sugar paste, many different designs are made, such as calaveras, skeletons, coffins, fruit, animals, common during Day of the Dead festivities

Arroz con leche

Arroz con leche

Barquillo

Barquillo

Wafer rolls, thin rolled wafer cookies, serve with, for example, ice cream

Berliner

Berliner

Doughnut filled with jelly, may also have other fillings such as dulce de leche/manjar

Biko

Biko

A sweet rice cake made from sticky rice, coconut milk and brown sugar, commonly cooked in a baking pan and cut into squares

Bizcocho

Bizcocho

Cakes, pastries, cakes, sponge cake, however, in Spain, bizcocho refers only to sponge cake

Blancmange

Blancmange

A sweet molded milk or cream dessert, often flavored with almonds and thickened with gelatin, cornstarch or Irish moss

Brownies

Brownies

Most common are chocolate brownies, but variations include caramel, white chocolate, mint/grasshopper, peanut butter, marshmallows, Nutella, with fruit, cheesecake, candy bar, peppermint

Buñuelo

Buñuelo

Fried dough ball, doughnut, made with banana, yam, pumpkin, can be eaten alone, filled with custard, fruit jam, topped with sugar

Buñuelo de viento

Buñuelo de viento

Wind fritter, light and fluffy fritter, either shaped as small balls or flower-shaped

Cajeta

Cajeta

Goat's milk caramel candies or sauce, used in many desserts and sweets

Calabaza en tacha

Calabaza en tacha

Candied pumpkin, candied squash, popular during Day of the Dead festivities

Trends coming soon

Capirotada

Capirotada

Bread pudding, common during Lent and Easter

Carrot cake

Carrot cake

Cake made with carrots, raisins, pineapple, pecans, spices and a cream cheese frosting

Charlotte Russe cake

Charlotte Russe cake

No-bake layered spongecake or lady finger cake with Bavarian cream, whipping cream, berries, fruit, mousse, brandy

Chocoflan

Chocoflan

Bundt-shaped chocolate cake topped with a layer of flan

Chocolate

Chocolate

Roasted and ground cacao seeds, made into chocolate bars, used in sweets, desserts, moles, sauces, drinks, cakes, cookies, used in many recipes and foods

Churro

Churro

Fried cylindrical pastry, serve with dulce de leche, chocolate

Cocada

Cocada

Coconut confections, many different variations and flavors such as branca, preta, morena, com leite condensado

Cochinito de piloncillo

Cochinito de piloncillo

Piloncillo spice cookie in the shape of pigs, though other animal shapes are also made, such as horses, cows, sheep, the cookies can be soft or hard

Crème brûlée

Crème brûlée

Custard topped with hardened caramelized sugar

Crêpes Suzette

Crêpes Suzette

Crepe with beurre Suzette sauce, created in Monaco in 1896 by Chef Henri Charpentier of the Café de Paris

Dulce de ajonjoli

Dulce de ajonjoli

Empanada

Empanada

Sweet, filled hand-held pie

Flan

Flan

Custard dessert topped with a layer of caramel sauce, variations include coconut, chestnut, chocolate

Flan de queso

Flan de queso

Cheese flan, cream cheese flan

Floating island

Floating island

Meringue floating on crème anglaise

Fraisier

Fraisier

Layered sponge cake with fresh strawberries and mousseline

Fresas con crema

Fresas con crema

Strawberries and whipped cream

Galleta Maria

Galleta Maria

Marie cookie, a brand name cookie that is commonly eaten with coffee

Gansito

Gansito

A Mexican snack cake filled with crème and strawberry jelly and coated with chocolate

Trends coming soon

Gingerbread

Gingerbread

Cakes, breads and biscuits made with ginger and spices such as cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, from dense or airy cakes to crispy cookies

Helado

Helado

Helado de mango

Helado de mango

Mango ice cream

Hojuela

Hojuela

Deep-fried dough pastry topped with sugar or honey, traditionally eaten around Christmas and Easter

Lengua de gato

Lengua de gato

Thin butter cookies

Mazamorra

Mazamorra

Melcocha

Melcocha

Taffy-like candy, may also contain nuts

Mousse

Mousse

Whipped custard, many flavors, for example, mousse au chocolat, fruit, mousse can also be savory, for example, salmon mousse

Natillas

Natillas

Cinnamon, vanilla and/or lemon custard, serve with a Maria biscuit/cookie

Niño envuelto

Niño envuelto

Wrapped baby, sweet rolls or roulades filled with fruit, pumpkin, raspberries, strawberries, there are also savory versions, for example, rice and beef cabbage rolls

Orejitas

Orejitas

Ear-shaped cookies/pastries

Paleta

Paleta

Fruit-flavored popsicle

Pan de muerto

Pan de muerto

Bread of the dead, sweet bread common during Day of the Dead festivities, serve with coffee, champurrado

Pan dulce

Pan dulce

Sweet breads, pastries, cookies, many different types, serve with, for example, coffee, champurrado, hot chocolate

Panna cotta

Panna cotta

Thickened, sweetened cream, may be flavored with vanilla, chocolate, berries, mango, coconut, sea buckthorn

Pastel de tres leches

Pastel de tres leches

Sponge cake made with three kinds of milk, i.e., cream, evaporated and condensed milk

Pastel helado

Pastel helado

A no-bake layered dessert commonly made with sweetened condensed milk, fruit, and with a base of Maria cookies, though some versions are more of an ice cream cake

Pastelito

Pastelito

Sweet pie or empanada, puff pastry filled with fruit, quince, guava, sweet potato, dulce de leche

Polvorón

Polvorón

Round shortbread cookies covered with powdered sugar

Profiteroles

Profiteroles

Pudin de pan

Pudin de pan

Raspado

Raspado

Fruit juice flavored shave ice/snow cone, with condensed milk on the top

Rosca de reyes

Rosca de reyes

King's cake, an oval-shaped sweet bread with dried fruit, traditionally served during Epiphany

Rosette

Rosette

Deep-fried shaped pastries, formed by dipping a hot metal iron into batter and then plunging it into hot oil

Strudel

Strudel

Filo pastry with a sweet filling such as apple, fruit, nuts, cheese, poppy seeds, there are also savory strudels

Suspiro

Suspiro

Meringue cookies, also refers to cake frosting in the Dominican Republic

Tamales de dulce

Tamales de dulce

Sweet tamales, filled with sugar, pineapple, raisins, coconut, dried fruit, jam

Tres leches

Tres leches

Sponge cake made with three kinds of milk, i.e., heavy cream, evaporated and condensed milk

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Viejitas

Sweet bread pastries filled with a chocolate mixture, serve with chocolate

Yema

Yema

Sweet egg yolk confection

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Agua de arroz

Agua fresca

Agua fresca

Fruit juice drinks such as agua de Jamaica

Aguardiente

Aguardiente

Sugarcane alcohol

Arabica coffee

Arabica coffee

A species of coffee, Coffea arabica, there are many different Arabica varieties

Atole

Atole

Hot corn and masa beverage, common during Christmas

Black coffee

Black coffee

Drip coffee with no added ingredients

Bloody Mary

Bloody Mary

Mixed drink made with tomato juice, vodka, Worcestershire sauce, black pepper, celery salt, Tabasco and tomato juice, several variations, IBA official cocktail

Brandy

Brandy

Búlgaros

Búlgaros

Drinkable fermented milk beverage

Café carajillo

Café carajillo

Coffee or espresso mixed with alcohol such as brandy, whiskey, rum, anisette, Licor 43

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