Authentic Guacamole
The Mexican original is made in a molcajete and contains no garlic, no cumin and no soured cream — just avocado…
Mashed, sliced and blended. 29 recipes on the site call for avocado.
The Mexican original is made in a molcajete and contains no garlic, no cumin and no soured cream — just avocado…
Good bread, properly toasted, with avocado seasoned far more aggressively than instinct suggests. The difference…
Fried tortilla chips simmered briefly in salsa verde until they soften at the edges but keep a bite at the centre…
Cubed raw tuna dressed in soy, sesame and sweet onion over rice. Hawaiian in origin and Japanese in influence, and…
Potatoes fried until properly crusted, then peppers, onions and whatever else is in the fridge, with eggs cracked in…
Soft scrambled eggs, crisp potatoes, sausage and cheese rolled tight in a griddled tortilla. Built properly it holds…
The inside-out roll that introduced the West to sushi: crab, avocado and cucumber wrapped in seasoned rice and…
Griddled corn cakes made from pre-cooked maize flour, split open and stuffed. Venezuelans and Colombians both claim…
A composed salad from the Brown Derby in Hollywood: neat rows of chicken, bacon, avocado, egg, tomato and blue…
Roasted vegetables, a grain, a pulse and something green in one bowl, held together by a tahini dressing loosened…
Fried eggs on crisped tortillas under a warm, smoky ranchero sauce, with black beans and avocado. The Mexican…
Crisp fried tortillas topped with chicken tinga — shredded chicken in a smoky chipotle and tomato sauce — with…
Raw prawns cured in minutes in lime juice blitzed with green chilli and coriander, layered with cucumber and red…
The Antioquian platter: beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, minced beef, a fried egg, plantain, avocado and an arepa…
Thick masa discs with a pinched rim, griddled then lightly fried, and piled with beans, meat, lettuce, crema and…
Bogotá chicken and potato soup, thickened by three kinds of potato breaking down at different rates, with guascas…
Cold layers of yellow potato mashed with lime and ají amarillo, packed around a chicken or crab filling and turned…
A hot dog buried under diced tomato, mashed avocado and a mountain of mayonnaise. Chile's national street food, and…
Kenya’s everyday salad: tomato, onion and chilli with lime and coriander, salted and drained so it stays crisp…
A brothy Mexican soup with real depth: dried chillies toasted and blended into the base, chicken poached in it and…
An egg baked in the hollow of an avocado half, which sounds like a magazine idea and works because of one…
Sweet potato roasted with chipotle until the edges char, black beans warmed with lime, and a quick pickled onion for…
Everything chopped to the size of a pea and bound in a herb dressing thick enough to cling, eaten with a spoon or a…
Chickpeas crushed with tahini, lemon and capers into something with the texture of a tuna mayo but none of the fish…
Young green jackfruit shredded and cooked down in a chipotle and orange braise until the edges catch, which is where…
Thin noodles toasted golden in oil, then simmered in a tomato broth. Thirty minutes, and it is what Mexican children…
A thick flour tortilla folded over refried beans, cream and crumbled cheese. Honduras's breakfast, and thirty minutes.
A chilli and tomato broth with crisp tortilla strips added at the table so they keep their crunch. Forty-five minutes.
Thick corn cakes griddled until they puff, split open like a pocket and stuffed. Fifty minutes.