Mexican Food Made Simple

by Thomasina Miers

If you love having friends and family round for dinner or simply rustling up fresh, fast food, Mexican cooking is fun, fantastic and full of flavour. One of its brightest stars, Wahaca chef and food writer Thomasina Miers shares the recipes she has gathered since she first fell in love with the country aged 18, reinventing the classics with accessible ingredients to demonstrate how exciting and delicious traditional Mexican food can be. Whether you're looking for street snacks full of punch, rich, hearty stews, or sensational, spicy wraps, Thomasina's Mexican Food Made Simple is bursting with recipes you'll want to eat and soft corn tacos and tostados; little cheesy things (Quesadillas); a great Mexican chille con carne; Grilled Seabass or succulent Lamb Chops with homemade salsas and tortilla chips; and to finish churros with chocolate sauce.The book features vibrant food photography throughout, and step-by-step guides to folding the perfect burrito, eating a taco (no knives and forks allowed), making a sizzling table salsa, and much more. And with Thomasina's guide to the world's hottest Chillis, ingenious cheats, and helpful menu planner, Mexican Food Made Simple has everything you need to put together a fantastic Mexican feast at home.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction, Reference

377 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Alex L Bancroft · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic, tasty recipes that are simple to follow.

[Kelvin Green · Rating 2 out of 5]

Weird layout, strange selection of recipes (something like seven different tacos but only one burrito?), and almost no pictures.

[Rachel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Recipe book of the month for February 2024

The first of my and Lucy’s project to use more of our cookbooks.

I realised why I’d hardly used this brand-new book, which was given as a gift around the time of publication. So many of the recipes require other recipes to be to be made (there are two of us, we don’t need to eat the same sauce etc too many times) and with this is the most pertinent point – with not easily obtainable ingredients. I’ve made some salsas and been inspired to make fish tacos, fajitas and so on, but not really any using of these specific recipes. Given away to Sobell Charity Shop.

29/2/24

[Tanya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book that covers the basics of Mexican cooking and the more adventurous stuff too. Enjoyed the introduction which explained about the cuisine of Mexico and really made me want to make everything. On a negative it was a bit too meaty for me and I didn't realise Mexican cooking involved lots of fish which I also don't eat. But the salsa recipes etc.. look good and are on the menu for this weekend.

[Katie Webb · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are some very nice recipes in here. As a companion to the TV series, it didn't quite make sense. The recipes were different, and sometimes better, than the ones in the book! Don't do that! Luckily, I watched the show with book in hand to make a not of the variations.

[Judith Rich · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought I didn't like Mexican food. I was with Billy Connolly - it's just chilli and tortillas folded differently, isn't it? I really liked Thomasina in Masterchef (so glad she won). I picked this up cheap when I got a boyfriend who liked Mexican food (even though he's actually quite fussy) and thought I should make an effort to try it.

Turns out no, Mexican food is not just chilli and tortillas folded in different ways. That's just bad fake Tex-Mex in this country (I won't name and shame the chains involved, but you know who you are....). And real Mexican food is amazing.

I make the chili beef stew with chorizo regularly. It's really delicious. I never thought I'd have 3 types of chili in my food cupboard, but I do now!

And the boyfriend was impressed. We're now married :-)