Chili-salsa

And the dinner continues and what would tortillas be without a good salsa?

With right ingredients homemade salsa is the best.

One pot of chilantro
3-4 tomatoes
0,5 - 1 red onion
1 green pepper
2 red chilis (fresh or dried)
2 limes
olive oil

Cut the tomatoes in half and press the juice out of them. Dice the tomatoes, onion and green pepper. Cut the chilantro and chili. Mix all the earlier mentioned ingredients in a bowl and press lime juice on it. Pour some olive oil and season with salt.

To prevent the extra liquid in salsa remember to press the
juice out of tomatoes.

Pickled red onion

Home-made pickled red onion are easier than you think.

As I had authentic Mexican dinner for my friends, of course, I had to serve pickled red onion with tortillas.

2 red onion
0,5 dl vinegar
1 dl sugar
1,5 dl water
5 slices of unpeeled ginger

Cook quickly vinegar, sugar, water and ginger and then pour it on the sliced red onion. Let the onion to pickle over night.

Serve on top of a tortilla.

Achiote marinated pork

Authentic Mexican tacos, so good :)

This recipe I got from a friend of mine who also loves Mexican food. First I had a problem if I could find achiote paste in stores but luckily I found a little shop selling Mexican ingredients for cooking. They even had stuff for tamales which I am gonna try in future.

I had dinner for 4 people and there for I only had 1,2 kg of pork shoulder:

1,2 kg pork shoulder
3 tbsp achiote paste
2 tbsp chili powder or chili flakes
1 tbsp minced garlic or garlic powder
1 tbsp oregano
1 tbsp cumin
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp pepper
2 dl vinegar
2,5 dl pineapple juice

Slice the pork shoulder. Mix all the ingredients well together and pour on the meat. Marinate minimum of 2 hours. I had the meat in marinate over night.

Pile the meat on top of each other and place pineapple rings on top. Cook in the oven for about 2 hours in 150 ºC.

Cook in low temperature for about 2 hours.

Cut the meat in small pieces so it fits your tacos or tortillas.

Hot sauce from Aji Mirasol

I wanted to make New Mexican red chili sauce but found only Aji Mirasol from the local store. Here I have combined a New Mexican chili sauce recipe with a Aji Mirasol sauce recipe I found on Internet. The fresh chili is calledd Aji Amarillo and they come from Peru.

Ingredients for the sauce.

This recipe will give you 0,5 l of chili sauce:

20 dried pods of Aji Mirasol
3 cloves of garlic
half large onion
7 dl water or vegetable buillon
1 tsp dried oregano
0,5 tsp cumin
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp vinegar

Remove the stems and the seeds from chili pods. Pour the water in a casserole and add the chilis, garlic, onion and oregano. Boil the mix on low fire for 15 minutes. Let it sit for 10 more minutes.

When the chilis look like this you can put them into a mixer.

Put everyhing into a mixer with cumin and vinegar and mix it to a smooth chili sauce. Season with salt.

Wonderful chili sauce for instance to use in tortillas.