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OUT LINE

T.S. What makes Mexican cuisin so special?

I. Introduction

II. Mexican Dishes
a) Taste
b) Smell
c) Color

III. Mexican Desserts
a) Taste
b) Smell
c) Color

IV. Conclusion

MEXICAN CUISIN
DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

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What makes Mexican cuisin so special? Uniqueness of Mexican cuisin is given by its tangy flavors, spicy buquet and coloful dishes. The complexity and hundred of ingredients of its recipes, which preparation is very traditional, create a sophisticated taste. Mexican gastronomy has its origins in European and Indigenous gastronomies, that is why you find a fan of flavors to savor. So awake your senses for a mouth watering description of Mexican dishes and desserts in the next paragraphs.

Nexican dishes are cooked with an assortment of herbs, chillipeppers and spicy condimients. However Mexican´s cuisin maximun representative ingredient is: chillipepper. That is why all of Mexican recipes cointain a sort of chillipeppers, which give to each dish its particular flavor, smell and even color. For example: “Chiles en Nogada” dish mainly made of poblano chillipeppers, cream and tunafish or stuffed cheese. Poblano chillipeppers are filled with this cheese stuffed and covered with cream, decorated with “granada”. The mixture of hotness of poblano chillipeppers, sourness of cream and the bitterness of tuna fish or cheese; creates in your mouth a delicious texture. In addition your nose is gladdened with a soft but penetrating fragant of “Chiles en Nogada”. You can perceive a spicy perfume from poblano chillipeppers. This dish proudly carries out its Mexican origins with the greenish of poblano chillipeppers, the whiteness of cream and the reddish of granada; three very Mexican colors which surely will awake your senses.

Now let´s talk about something sweet; Mexican desserts. All of them contain, at least , one kind of sugar which makes them delectable in taste and texture. There are different types of desserts in each región of Mexico. One of the most representative dessert of the country is “alegría” candy. “Alegrias” are made by amaranth, burned sugar(caramel) and some nuts as decoration. A simple bite of an “alegría” sweet gives to your tongue a honeyed, tang, taste with a unique spongy feeling of amaranth. It´s caramelized buquet is irresistible. Definitively the whiteness of amaranth with that savory brown of burned sugar is going to catch your tongue´s attention.

As it was stated in upper lines, doubtlessly Mexican gastronomy presents a miscellany of dishes and sweets. All of them offer to your senses a range of spiciness flavors with strong scents and attractive colors that invite you to taste each Mexican dish and dessert. Mexican recipes provide a bitter, spicy flavor to your tongue. On the other hand, Mexican sweets take your taste into a slide of luscious tangy flavors. So if you have never tasted Mexican cuisin, you do not know the feeling of savor heaven.