Pozole - Vegetarian

Ingredients

• Hominy (Mexican style)
• vegetable broth
• chiles anachos
• garlic
• tomato
• cloves
• oregano
• cabbage salsa

Preparation

Use a can of Hominy. Rinse out in a strainer.

Use store bought vegetable broth (or make your own).

Boil chiles anchos with tomatoes.

Add oregano, garlic and cloves.

Blend tomatoes, cloves, chiles anchos, garlic and oregano.

Boil hominy with vegetable broth at low heat for an hour, or until hominy is tender.

Use a strainer to filter out sauce and add to the boiling hominy with broth.

Add cabbage salad and tortilla chips. Enjoy with lime and radishes.

Pav Bhaji

Ingredients

• Potatoes
• Tomatoes
• Red onion
• Bell peppers
• Garam masala
• Haldi
• Salt
• Chili 
• Lime 
• Cilantro 
• Olive oil
• Buns - pav

Preparation

Wash, peel and cut golden potatoes.

Use a glass container and cook them in the microwave until tender.

Chop tomatoes, bell peppers, and red onion.

Brown the onion

Add the tomato

bell peppers. Steam them in a pot.

Add haldi, garam masala, salt and chili.

Add cooked potatoes. Keep cooking on low heat (20-30mins) and make it into a fine mix by breaking the potatoes with your spatula. (Do not use a blender!)

Garnish with cilantro.

Eat as a sandwich with hamburger buns. Add lime to taste.

Enjoy!

Empanadas

Ingredients

• Corn masa
• Tinga de pollo (or other stuffing
• Copped lettuce
• Salsa (pico de gallo)
• Salsa verde
• Salvadorean sour cream

Preparation

Mix corn masa. Make corn tortillas in the tortiadora. 

Add chicken tinga or other stuffing (like potato stuffing).

Fold and seal.

Cook in a flat pan. Add a small amount of olive oil.

Top with Salvadorean sour cream.

Add lettuce.

Salsa verde.

And, pico de gallo... Enjoy!

Enchiladas

Ingredients

• Chiles guajillos 
• Tomato
• Garlic powder
• Corn starch
• Queso seco
• Corn Tortillas 
• Cabbage salsa 

Preparation
Wash tomatoes and chiles guajillos (Two chiles per one medium size tomato).

Steam them in a pot with some water. The amount of water should be based on how deep the pot is. You want the sauce to have a thicker consistency.

Blend the tomato and chiles guajillos.

Use a strain to get rid of excess pieces of tomato and chile.

You want to end up with a soft-textured sauce.

Add corn starch to thicken (if needed).

Dissolve a teaspoon of starch in a small amount of water (just enough to dissolve starch).

Heat the corn tortillas in a flat pan.

You can fry them in oil, or simply add some oil to make them more crunchy.

Submerge the tortillas in the enchilada sauce.

Add cabbage salsa.

Add queso seco.

 

Roll and enjoy!