Holiday Specials · Mexican

Mexican holiday recipes

4 Mexican holiday recipes, in a suggested order.

These are the 4 Mexican recipes filed under holiday specials: 4 of the 135 holiday dishes on the site, and 4 of its 173 Mexican recipes. None of them is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. For every one, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 1 easy and 3 hard.

As written, 1 is vegetarian, 1 gluten-free and 1 dairy-free.

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Mexican holiday recipes — all 4 recipes

Pork Tamales
Mexican
Prep
60m
Cook
188m
Serves
12
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Pork Tamales

Masa whipped with lard until it floats, wrapped around chilli-braised pork in corn husks and steamed until it sets…

5.5 hr+ · Hard
Mole Poblano
Mexican
Prep
45m
Cook
120m
Serves
8
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Mole Poblano

Puebla's legendary sauce: more than twenty ingredients — chillies, nuts, seeds, spices, dried fruit and chocolate —…

3.5 hr · Hard
Chiles en Nogada
Mexican
Prep
90m
Cook
60m
Serves
6
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Chiles en Nogada

Roasted poblano chiles stuffed with a spiced, fruity meat filling, covered in a cool walnut cream sauce and…

4 hr · Hard
Mexican Wedding Cookies
Mexican
Prep
20m
Cook
14m
Serves
30
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Mexican Wedding Cookies

Small, crumbly butter cookies with ground pecans, rolled twice in icing sugar, baked for 14 minutes at 175C.

64 min+ · Easy