Traditional Mexican Recipes by Month: Seasonal Dishes & Ingredients

Traditional Mexican Recipes by Month

January — Christmas Rolls

• 1 tin of sardines
• 1/2 sausage
• 1 onion
• oregano
• 1 can serrano peppers
• 10 teleras

February — Cake Chabela

• 175 g granulated sugar
• 300 g flour, sifted 3 times
• 17 eggs
• lemon zest

March — Quail in Rose Petals

• Meat and produce: 6 quail
• 12 red roses (for petals)
• 12 nuts
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 pitahaya
• Seasonings and binders: 2 tbsp butter, 2 tbsp corn starch, 2 drops rose essence, 2 tsp anise, 2 tsp honey

April — Turkey Mole with Almonds and Sesame

• 1/4 chile mulato
• 3 pasilla chiles
• 3 ancho chiles
• a fist of almonds
• a fist of sesame
• turkey (suitable for soup)
• cake (1/3 of shell)
• peanuts
• 1/2 onion
• wine
• 2 tablets of chocolate
• anise
• butter
• cloves
• cinnamon
• pepper
• sugar
• chilli seeds
• 5 cloves of garlic

May — Northern Sausage

• 8 kg pork loin, rump or head
• 2 lb boneless
• 1 kg ancho chile
• 60 g cumin
• 60 g oregano
• 30 g pepper
• 6 g cloves
• 2 cups garlic
• 2 L cider vinegar
• 250 g salt (1/4 kg)

June — Mass to Matches

• 1 ounce nitro powder
• 1/2 ounce red lead
• 1/2 ounce gum arabic powder
• 1 drachm phosphorus
• saffron
• cardboard

July — Beef Tail Soup

• 2 lb beef rump
• 1 onion
• 2 cloves garlic
• 4 tomatoes
• 1/4 kg green beans
• 2 potatoes
• 4 chiles morita

August — Champandongo

• 1/4 ground beef
• 1/4 ground pork
• 200 g walnuts
• 200 g almonds
• 1 onion
• citron
• 2 tomatoes
• sugar
• 1/4 cup cream
• 1/4 Manchego cheese
• 1/4 mole
• cumin
• chicken broth
• corn tortillas
• oil

September — Chocolate and Rosca de Reyes

September — Chocolate

• 2 lb Soconusco cocoa
• 2 lb Maracaibo cocoa
• 2 lb Caracas cocoa
• sugar 4 to 6 lb according to taste

September — Rosca de Reyes

• 300 g fresh yeast
• 1 kg and 1/4 flour
• 8 eggs
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp orange flower water
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 300 g sugar
• 300 g butter
• 250 g candied fruit
• porcelain doll

October — Cream Slices

• 1 cup cream
• 6 eggs
• cinnamon
• syrup

November — Fat Chili with Beans (Tezcucana)

• fat beans
• pork
• pork
• ancho chile
• onion
• shredded cheese
• lettuce
• avocado
• radishes
• torn chiles
• olives

December — Chiles in Walnut Sauce

• 25 poblano chiles
• 8 pomegranates
• 100 g walnuts
• 100 g cheese (stale or fresh)
• 1 kg ground beef
• 100 g raisins
• 250 g almonds (1/4 kg)
• 250 g nuts (1/4 kg)
• 1/2 kg tomato
• 2 medium onions
• 2 citron
• peach
• apple
• cumin
• white pepper
• salt
• sugar