Mexican Snack
An antojito is a craving — what you eat between meals, on the street, off a comal at a market. Esquites, elotes, tlacoyos, gorditas. The masa is the platform; everything else is invention.
Featured mexican snack recipes
- Elote, grilled with crema — Iris · Mexico City · Mayo, crema, cotija, chile, lime. The wrong ones are wrong.
- Esquites in a cup — Iris · Mexico City · Same toppings as elote. In a cup. With a spoon. The reason cities have streets.
- Gorditas of chicharrón — Don Esteban Cruz · Tlaxcala, Mexico · Don Esteban: pocket bread of fresh masa. The masa is the question.
- Tlacoyos with bean filling — Don Esteban Cruz · Tlaxcala, Mexico · Don Esteban: the oval that predates Cortés. Pre-Hispanic shape.
- Pan de muerto, year-round — Don Rafael Ortiz · Mexico City · Don Rafael: a holiday’s bread, made into a snack.
- Churros, fried, with chocolate — Iris · Mexico City · Choux-style dough, hot oil, cinnamon sugar, dark chocolate to dunk.
- Frijoles charros, in a bowl — Iris · Sonora, Mexico · Bacon, chorizo, jalapeño, beans. A snack that thinks it’s a meal.
- Mexican paletas, fresh fruit — Iris · Tocumbo, Michoacán · Fruit, sugar, water, a stick. Ice that tastes like the season.
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