Mexican
Salsa Roja de Molcajete (Molcajete Red Salsa)
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Salsa Roja de Molcajete (Molcajete Red Salsa) is Mexican home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Char the tomatoes, unpeeled garlic, and arbol chiles on a dry comal, turning, until blackened in spots.
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Peel the garlic once cool enough to handle.
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Crush the chiles and garlic with the salt in a molcajete or a mortar until broken down, or pulse briefly in a blender for the same texture.
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Add the charred tomatoes and crush or pulse until chunky, not smooth.
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Serve at room temperature. Rated a kid favorite of nobody: this is the shelf's honest hot end.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Salsa Roja de Molcajete (Molcajete Red Salsa), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The protein alongside
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Salsa Roja de Molcajete (Molcajete Red Salsa) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 40 kcal
- Protein
- 1 g
- Carbs
- 6 g
- Fat
- 1 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 170 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Salsa Roja de Molcajete (Molcajete Red Salsa) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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