For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available
Jícama Ceviche
1 medium jícama
1 large tomato
1 tablespoon onion
1½ Serrano peppers
1 large avocado
Cilantro to taste
½ cup ketchup
Salt to taste
Noptalitos Tacos
3 corn tortilla per person
1 large avocado
1 large tomato
¼ onion
2 large Serrano peppers
1 lemon
10 nopalitos
Salt to taste
½ tablespoon olive oil
Mango Salsa
(to serve with tacos)
1 large mango
1 medium tomato
2 Serrano peppers
1 lemon
Cilantro to taste
Salt to taste
Mexican Jícama Ceviche - Peel the jícama, cu it into pieces so that it can be grated.
- Add some cilantro to the jícama, and then the tomato, the onion, the chili pepper, the Serano pepper which has been previously chopped, and the the onion, salt and avocado.
- Mix everything perfectly.
- Squeeze in some lemon, and some olive oil (optional).
- To complete it, add the ketchup to sweeten the ceviche.
- Garnish it with avocado, lemon slices and a little bit more of cilantro.
- Ready to be served.
Vibrant Nopalitos Tacos- Marinate the onion in the lemon juice for 1 or 2 hours.
- Clean the nopal, remove the rest of its thorns.
- Cut the nopal and wash it. When nopal is washed, it releases slime. So there are two ways to prevent the slime, which are the husk of the tomatillo while it’s cooking, and if that’s not available, use a copper coin that has been washed well. Boil it together with the nopales and that will cut the slime and end up perfectly clean.
- Cook the nopal in boiling water for about 20 minutes until it is soft. Use low heat to simmer so that keeping the nutrients.
- Add a piece of onion to the nopal and some salt.
- Meanwhile, chop the tomato for the tacos, chop the cilantro.
- Add avocado slices and mash the avocado that will be the bed inside the tortilla, to put the cilantro.
- Add the tomatoes.
- Add the chili according to one’s taste, add in the marinated onions, and the purple onion according to one’s taste.
- Finally, add in the nopales after draining out the water.
- Add a slice of avocado, a little pinch of salt for the avocado on top, and a bit of ready made tomato sauce.
- Serve it with Mango Salsa.
Mango Salsa - Cut the mango, dice it into small pieces.
- Cut the tomato, dice it into small pieces.
- Add the Serrano pepper.
- Add a bit of cilantro.
- Add a pinch of salt.
- Add lemon juice.
- Ready to be served.