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Friday, April 26, 2019
11 of the Best Mexican Recipes to Grill This Spring and Summer
Since spring is in full swing, it’s time to break out the barbecue, and grilled Mexican food sounds perfect for Cinco de Mayo (or any other occasion too). Margaritas optional, but encouraged.
While not all of the below dishes are what you’d call authentic, they are all delicious, and meant to capture the experience of an evening stroll through a town in Mexico, where the smell of meat cooking over charcoal is one of the primary sensory pleasures. So, yes, we have carne asada, but a couple vegetarian options too—and even a sangría made with grilled fruit. Buen provecho!
1. Grilled Shrimp Tacos
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Grilled shrimp are a lighter alternative to meat for tacos. Toss them quickly in spicy chipotle powder, cumin, and lime juice, then grill to develop a flavorful char. Stuff into warm corn tortillas and top with fresh avocado-corn salsa. Get our Grilled Shrimp Tacos recipe.
2. Mexican BBQ Chicken
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A recipe inspired by Mexico’s pollo al carbon, chickens marinated and cooked on huge charcoal grills, this is easier to pull off on your Weber. The marinade contains achiote paste, chopped cilantro, jalapeños, garlic, lime, and orange juice. Get our Mexican BBQ Chicken recipe.
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3. Grilled Chile Salmon with Lime Crema
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Salmon fillets marinate quickly in chili powder, garlic, lime, and olive oil. After grilling, the salmon is served with a sauce of Mexican crema or sour cream, lime, cilantro, and green onions. Get our Grilled Chile Salmon with Lime Crema recipe.
4. Carne Asada
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Flank steak marinated with beer, lime and lemon juice, garlic, red onion, salt, and a bit of sugar gets grilled, sliced, and slipped into tacos. Get our Carne Asada recipe.
5. Guacamole Turkey Burgers
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Turkey burgers can be dry and tasteless, but not these. Dark-meat turkey lends juiciness and flavor, while additions of chili powder, lime zest, and cilantro lend character. A topping of tangy guacamole finishes things off in vivid style. Get our Guacamole Turkey Burgers recipe.
6. Mexican Grilled Steak Salad
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For this healthy Mexican grilled flank steak recipe, medium-rare slices of beer-marinated beef mingle with romaine lettuce, canned black beans, cherry tomatoes, avocado, queso fresco, and cilantro in an avocado-yogurt dressing. Get our Mexican Grilled Steak Salad recipe.
7. Grilled Tofu Torta
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Grill marinated tofu, then top it with smashed black beans, salty crumbles of cotija cheese, pickled jalapeños, creamy avocado, and shredded lettuce, all inside a soft bun. Get our Grilled Tofu Torta recipe.
8. Grilled Sangría
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Sangria is technically Spanish (its Mexican cousin is clerico), but it’s perfect with Mexican food. Adding grilled fruit gives it a bit of smoky flavor that complements the red wine and brandy, but also mellows out the booziness. Get our Grilled Sangría recipe.
9. Grilled Rib-Eyes with Chile-Lime-Tequila Butter
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Steaks on the grill are the iconic summertime meal. We top ours with a Mexican-style compound butter spiked with chiles, black pepper, lime juice, and tequila. Get our Grilled Rib-Eyes with Chile-Lime-Tequila Butter recipe.
10. Pork and Chorizo Chile Burger
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Top these burgers of ground pork and spicy Mexican chorizo with grilled chiles and a grilled avocado mash (clearly paving the way for grilled guac on the side!), and wash it all down with a refreshing beer cocktail (or a straight-up bottle of cerveza). Get our Pork and Chorizo Chile Burger recipe.
11. Grilled Corn with Cayenne, Lime, and Cotija
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Grilled corn is a beautiful thing, but even better when dressed Mexican-street-food-style, slathered in cayenne-spiked mayo, rolled in cotija cheese, and spritzed with lime juice. Add a sprinkle of cilantro and/or a few cracks of black pepper if you like. It also has a built-in handle since you grill it in the husk—pure perfection. Get our Grilled Corn with Cayenne, Lime, and Cotija recipe.
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Celebrate Spring With These 9 Healthy Asparagus Recipes
Spring asparagus is worthy of celebration, so we rounded up some of our best asparagus recipes to inspire your own green feast.
After a long winter, verdant, perky spears of asparagus seem like the first true sign of spring. Celebrate the turn of the seasons with the following dishes, which manage to highlight the vegetable and its grassy essence in delicious ways that won’t weigh you down.
1. Crunchy Asparagus and Snow Pea Salad
Cookbook author Patricia Wells created this asparagus and snow pea salad, which makes for a simple, elegant lunch when served with crusty bread and a glass of rosé. It’s also a great lesson in how to build a salad based on what looks ans sounds best in the moment. Get Patricia Wells’ Crunchy Asparagus and Snow Pea Salad recipe.
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2. Spicy Chicken Asparagus Stir Fry
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This dinner comes together in minutes and is also a great meatless main course if you ditch the chicken and add more asparagus (or a mix of other vegetables). Get our Spicy Chicken Asparagus Stir Fry recipe.
3. Crispy Prosciutto-Wrapped Asparagus
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It may not be the first food to come to mind, but asparagus spears can actually be a great bar snack. Wrap them with thin slices of prosciutto that crisp up in the oven and you have a perfect cocktail hour nibble. (For something a little meatier, try this Grilled Beef-Stuffed with Asparagus.) Get our Crispy Prosciutto-Wrapped Asparagus recipe.
4. Asparagus Frittata with Horseradish Sour Cream
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Doing double duty as breakfast/brunch or dinner, this asparagus frittata is perfect for spring, and even better with a little bite from horseradish sour cream on the side. Get our Asparagus Frittata with Horseradish Sour Cream.
5. Angel Hair Pasta with Green Garlic Cream Sauce and Asparagus
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Simple, refined, and totally delicious, this delicate angel hair pasta dish celebrates the first of the season’s garlic as much as it does asparagus. Get our Angel Hair Pasta with Green Garlic Cream Sauce and Asparagus recipe.
6. Fettuccine with Pesto, Asparagus, and Artichoke
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Decidedly brawnier, this pasta is still springy, thanks to bright basil pesto and tender baby artichokes along for the ride with asparagus. Get our Fettuccine with Pesto, Asparagus, and Artichoke recipe. (And because you’re bound to fall in love with shaved asparagus, try it raw in our Shaved Asparagus Salad recipe too.)
7. Roasted Asparagus with Poached Eggs and Miso Butter
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Roasted asparagus on a bed of miso butter is a decadent treat; add perfectly runny poached eggs on top and you’ll be swooning into next spring. Get David Chang’s Roasted Asparagus with Poached Eggs and Miso Butter recipe.
8. Grilled Asparagus Salmon Kebabs
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An easy meal that can be made at home on a week night or toted to a campsite for a weekend in the great outdoors, these meaty salmon and asparagus kebabs are enlivened with a marinade of lemon, soy sauce, brown sugar, and ginger. Get our Grilled Asparagus Salmon Kebabs recipe.
9. Baked Asparagus Fries
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These might not entirely eclipse french fries in your affections, but they are a delicious crisp side dish that will entice even asparagus avoiders into scarfing down several spears. We defy you to roll anything in panko and parmesan and not compulsively pack it away. Since this is mostly green veg, though, it’s still pretty good for you. Spritz it with lemon and dip in aioli for an even richer treat. Get our Baked Asparagus Fries recipe.
Get more spring recipes and inspiration, and see our favorite veggie-centric cookbooks to make the most of every season’s harvest.
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What Is the Difference Between Vegetables and Baby Vegetables (Besides Age)?
Youth is the ideal, right? Even for vegetables. That’s the marketing gimmick they’re selling on packages of baby carrots, baby greens, and baby anything-edible. But what are baby vegetables, exactly? And are they really better than adult veggies?
Baby Vegetables vs Young Vegetables
First off, aside from “baby carrots,” most baby vegetables are in fact the brand-new, early-harvested versions of the plants we usually consume when fully grown—baby corn is picked when it’s just started sprouting from the stalk, and baby zucchini is simply regular zucchini that’s harvested before it has a chance to mature. But other “baby” vegetables are actually full-grown plants that are simply miniature in size—see: baby beets and baby cucumbers.
The baby-fication of our food is largely yet another example of our cultural values, but in some dishes, this distinction does actually mean a different taste, texture, and nutrient density.
We take a look at the age differences in greens, peas, asparagus, and carrots. Eat accordingly.
Greens
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There are at least three palatable stages of leafy green vegetables:
- Microgreens are harvested when the leaves are fewer than 14 days old. They make great garnishes on salads, soups, and sandwiches. “Although small in size, microgreens can provide surprisingly intense flavors, vivid colors, and crisp textures and can be served as an edible garnish or a new salad ingredient,” researchers say in a 2012 report by the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. The report shows higher levels of vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta carotene compared to their more mature counterparts.
- Baby greens are harvested during a fairly early stage of plant growth, usually between 15 to 35 days after planting, according to World’s Healthiest Foods. Baby and adult kale are nutritionally similar, says Krista Haynes, a registered dietician and owner of Sanskara Nutrition in Manhattan Beach, California. Baby kale has a slightly milder flavor, but the main difference is that baby kale is more tender and easier to eat raw, she said on NutriLiving. Most of the spinach you see at the grocery store is baby spinach, the favorite in salads and raw preparations.
- Mature greens are usually harvested between 40 and 65 days after planting. There have been conflicting reports on whether mature vegetables have more or less nutrition than the younger leaves. They’re both great for your health, so you can’t make a mistake that way. As for their culinary use, older kale needs to be cooked, massaged, or blended. In the same way as kale, mature spinach is better when cooked. It’s also what you get whole or chopped in the freezer section.
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Peas
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The consensus is to buy frozen baby peas because they’re likely sweeter and fresher-tasting than the shuck-yourself “fresh” peas that often sit in storage, increasing in starchiness while losing sweetness, according to testers at Cook’s Illustrated. Petite peas, also called baby sweet peas, taste sweeter and have a creamier texture than regular peas, which have slightly tougher skins and mealy texture. (You may also want to know about the difference between snap peas, snow peas, and English peas.)
Asparagus
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This green stalk is not necessarily as it appears. Many of us think the thinner stalk is more tender and younger than the thicker stalks. Nope. The thickness of the spear has nothing to do with its age, in that a thin spear will not mature into a thicker spear, according to Cook’s Illustrated. Asparagus spears shoot up through the soil into the sunlight from an underground crown that can produce for up to 20 years. Both thick and thin types tasted equally sweet, nutty, and grassy to testers, and the thicker spears were just a tad more tender, surprisingly. Thicker stalks are better for broiling and roasting because they won’t shrivel as fast, and they’re better for grilling too just because they’re easier to grab with tongs. Quick-cooking thinner spears are best for stir-frying and steaming. If you’re eating your asparagus raw, the thicker stalks are best peeled into thin layers, and the thin stalks work fine whole. White asparagus, by the way, is the exact same plant, but intentionally deprived of sunlight.
Carrots
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You probably know by now that those bags of baby carrots are a lie—they are not, in fact, infant vegetables, but little orange nubs carved out of larger carrots (usually misshapen ones that would be unlikely to sell as well as their more conventionally beautiful carrot counterparts). True baby carrots are often available at farmers’ markets and some supermarkets in early spring, when the new crop is harvested. You’ll know them for true baby carrots because they look just like full-size carrots, only way smaller and more adorable, usually with long tails and leafy green tops intact, and sold in bunches.
Want to know more? Check out our vegetables page for articles, videos, galleries, and discussions on all things vegetable. (But if you were looking for a different sort of baby vegetables, check out our guide to The Best Baby Food Delivery Services.)
And if you’re just hungry for some veggies yourself now, we curated a few recipes using both young and old vegetables, because we don’t believe in age discrimination:
1. Warm Spinach Salad with Smoky Pecans and Sweet Potato
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Use baby spinach for this dish, which is like the meat-free version of warm bacon-y spinach salad. You toast the pecans in a frying pan to draw out their sweet, smoky flavor, further enhanced by smoked paprika. Get our Warm Spinach Salad with Smoky Pecans and Sweet Potato recipe.
2. Spinach Pie
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Recipes calling for regular spinach often just say to use a box or bag of chopped frozen spinach. This savory Greek-style pie is no exception. It also calls for store-bought frozen phyllo dough, making this dish even easier. The hardest part may be squeezing all the liquid out of the spinach after you defrost it. Oh, and then there’s brushing butter between each thin phyllo layer. But so worth it. Get our Spinach Pie recipe.
3. Potato Salad with Peas and Mint
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Use either really fresh peas that you shell yourself or buy a bag of frozen baby peas to ensure you have the freshest, sweetest flavor in this potato salad. Instead of mayonnaise, you mix in sour cream and heavy cream. And you cook the peas in bacon fat leftover from the bacon you cook and dice. Get our Potato Salad with Peas and Mint recipe.
4. Five-Spice Pork Stir-Fry with Sweet Potatoes and Snap Peas
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Use baby spinach and snap peas, with the ends trimmed, for this quick meal. You can use snow peas too; just cook them a minute less. Get our Five-Spice Pork Stir-Fry with Sweet Potatoes and Snap Peas recipe.
5. Pea Risotto
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Frozen baby peas lend vibrant color and fresh, sweet flavor to this spring risotto. Get our Pea Risotto recipe.
6. Fettuccine with Pesto, Asparagus, and Artichoke
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You’ll need the thick big stalks of asparagus for this recipe because after you blanch the asparagus, you give it a quick ice bath and then peel them lengthwise. This is a pretty springy pasta. Get our Fettuccine with Pesto, Asparagus, and Artichoke recipe.
7. Grilled Jumbo Asparagus with Gribiche and Bottarga
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You want the fattest asparagus you can find for this dish to be at its best. You boil the stalks for only 1 minute, but then you grill them a few more. The gribiche adds creaminess, the crouton crumbs a little more texture, and bottarga that pungent salty cured fish roe flavor. and Get our Grilled Jumbo Asparagus with Gribiche and Bottarga recipe.
8. Shaved Asparagus Salad
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Another shaved asparagus preparation, but this salad keeps them raw. Their sweet, vegetal crunch is complemented by salty parmesan, toasted pine nuts, and a parsley-lemon vinaigrette. This recipe also includes a fabulous tip for shaving veggies: If you have trouble peeling the final portion (of an asparagus spear, carrot, or cucumber), prop it up on the flat wooden handle of a spatula or spoon. This will raise it just high enough to allow the peeler to move freely. Get our Shaved Asparagus Salad recipe.
9. Roasted Baby Carrots with Mustard-Herb Butter
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If you can’t find true baby carrots, just make this with regular carrots, either sliced at an angle or halved lengthwise for a similar presentation. Just don’t be tempted by those bags of carrot nubbins (except maybe for snacking with hummus). Get our Roasted Baby Carrots with Mustard-Herb Butter recipe.
Related Reading: The Best Veggie-Heavy Cookbooks to Celebrate Produce
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