All-time Favorite Traditional Hispanic Recipes

Hispanic Food covers the culinary traditions of Puerto Rico, Mexico, Cuba, South and Central America. These countries have Spanish cultures and origins. Hispanic Food varies from each town, family and region.

All-time Favorite Traditional Hispanic Recipes

All-time Favorite Traditional Hispanic Recipes

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All-time Favorite Traditional Hispanic Recipes

All-time Favorite Traditional Hispanic Recipes

Hispanic groups usually like to eat their food with rice. Other Hispanics like to mix their meals with beans, potatoes, quinoa and wheat or cassava. These foods are not similar to your basic nachos, tacos, tamales and enchiladas. They have their individual mainstreams of Menu items, from the main dishes, desserts and appetizers up to the beverages.

Listed below are different types of Traditional Hispanic Recipes:
1. Picadillo Tacos
Ingredients:
o 1 large chopped onion
o 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
o 2 cloves garlic minced
o 2 pounds lean ground Pork
o ¾ cup Sun-Maid Natural Raisins
o 1 can or 15 ounce tomato sauce
o ½ cup piMento-stuffed green olives sliced
o Salt and pepper
o 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
o 12 purchased taco or tostada shells
o 3 cups shredded lettuce
o 1 ½ cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
o 1 ½ cups coarsely grated radish
o Lime wedges

Directions:

Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat.

Add garlic and onion, cook for about 3 minutes.

Cook until it becomes soft.

Add some Pork.

Increase the heat and stir, breaking up the large pieces (cook until the Pork is no longer pinkish in color).

Add tomato sauce, raisins, cinnamon, olives, pepper and salt to taste.

Simmer, stirring occasionally for about 10 minutes or until the sauce has thickened.

Divide warm picadillos between its shells.

Serve this topped with radish, cheese, lettuce and a squeeze of lime.

2. Sweet Raisin Tamales
Ingredients:
o 35 pcs cork husks
o 1 ½ c butter
o 3 pounds corn masa (prepared, for tamales)
o 1 cup granulated sugar
o 2 teaspoons of baking powder
o 1 ½ cup of Sun-Maid Natural Raisins

Directions:

Soak the corn husks in hot water for about 30 minutes or until the corn husks are soft.

Combine the prepared masa with baking powder, sugar and butter using a large deep bowl.

Mix until it becomes smooth, using a heavy spoon or electric mixer.

Spoon about two teaspoons of raisin-masa mixture in a mound of about 1 x 3 inches, particularly on the length and center of corn husks.

Roll the long side of husks over some filling.

Fold the narrow the end of the husks up and tie it with a strip of corn husk, leaving the top end open or twisting both ends and tying it.

Steam the tamales for about 45 minutes.

The corn husks should pull away from the masa when it's done.

Serve warm.

3. Raisin Salsa
Ingredients:
o 1 medium tomato
o 1 medium red onion
o ½ bunch of cilantro
o 1/3 cup sweet pickle relish
o 1/3 cup ketchup
o 2 cloves garlic
o 2 jalapeno peppers stem and seeds removed
o Juice of 1 lime
o ¾ cup of Sun-Maid Natural Raisins
o Salt

Directions:

Beat all the ingredients, except for the raisins, inside the food processor for about 10 minutes or until it becomes coarsely chopped.

Transfer the mixture onto a large bowl.

Stir in the raisins.

Salt to taste.

Let this stand for about 15 minutes so that the flavor blends.

All-time Favorite Traditional Hispanic Recipes

Easy Recipes for Your Stand Mixer

If you're like me, I have a stand mixer that's well...standing. I try hard to use it often, but just run out of ideas. One thing that has helped me is to look at what Foods I buy in a jar, box or can. Sauces, dough, soups and even ice creams can be made very easily with your stand mixer when you have a recipe. Luckily, there are literally thousands of recipes available on the internet and in books for this exact appliance. If you too own a stand mixer that's just sitting idle, here are a few jump-start recipe ideas for you to consider.

Easy Recipes for Your Stand Mixer

Easy Recipes for Your Stand Mixer

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Easy Recipes for Your Stand Mixer

Easy Recipes for Your Stand Mixer

Stand Mixer Pancakes

What You Need:

• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 ½ cups milk
• 3 tablespoons butter

How To Make It:

Begin by mixing all your dry ingredients together and place it in the stand mixer bowl. Allow this to mix slowly with a flat beater and then add in your wet ingredients little by little. You will then want to beat them together on a medium setting for about 15 seconds, or until the mixture is smooth.

Take the griddle or skillet you have and coat it with non-stick spray or oil. Place 1/3 cup of batter onto the Cooking surface and then allow the mixture to cook until bubbles form. That's how you know it is ready to flip. Flip once to brown on the opposite side. Serve warm with butter or peanut butter.

Stuffed Cheese Shells

What You Need:

• 2 eggs
• 1 package ricotta cheese
• 2 cups shredded mozzarella
• 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
• 2 teaspoons parsley
• 2 teaspoons salt
• Jumbo Pasta shells
• 3 cups marina sauce

How to Make It:

Begin by taking all of your ingredients, except the marinara sauce and shells and place them into your mixer. Turn on the mixer to a medium setting and allow the mixture to mix thoroughly. Then take 3 tablespoons of this mixture and fill each shell, placing them in a baking pan. When filled, pour your marinara over them. Bake in the oven, covered in foil, for 35 minutes at 350 degrees.

Fantastic Whipped Frosting

What You Will Need:

• 1 cup cream cheese
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 2 cups heavy cream

How to Make It:

Place your cream cheese, vanilla, almond extract and sugar into a mixing bowl and allow it to mix slowly until smooth. When that is done, increase the speed of the mixer to medium and add in your whipping cream slowly. Begin to scrape the sides of the bowl as it mixes and remove the bowl when peaks begin to form in your frosting. Your fantastic frosting is done and ready to top your favorite cupcake or dessert.

These are just some starter recipes to give you ideas on how to use your stand mixer more often. I hope you will go explore and find more recipes for sauces, fillings, dough (think cookies!) and much more.

Easy Recipes for Your Stand Mixer

Benefits of Sunflower Seeds - A Natural Fat Burning Food

Discover the incredible weight loss benefits of sunflower seeds, how to best prepare them and how much you should eat to get maximum benefit from sunflower seeds - one of nature's amazing fat burning Foods.

Benefits of Sunflower Seeds - A Natural Fat Burning Food

Benefits of Sunflower Seeds - A Natural Fat Burning Food

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Benefits of Sunflower Seeds - A Natural Fat Burning Food

Benefits of Sunflower Seeds - A Natural Fat Burning Food

Have you ever noticed the beautifully colored sunflowers that stand proudly tall in the open fields, with their huge, wide and golden flowers, and their darker brown centers? This is where sunflower seeds come from. The seeds may be black, gray, or green. They are small seeds with hard, tear-shaped shells that are black or gray. Shells may be streaked with black and white.

Once hulled, these seeds have a mild, nutty flavor, and are firm yet tender in texture.

Do you realize that for over 5,000 years, Native Americans have not only consumed these seeds for the oil, but have also utilized the seeds, as well as the flowers, for decorative purposes, religious occasions and dyes?

You can purchase sunflower seeds throughout the year at your local supermarket, grocery store, health Food store or whole Foods store.

Fat Burning Benefits of Sunflower Seeds

They are an outstanding Food source for Vitamin E and also contain a reasonable amount of thiamin, a B vitamin. They're also a rich in such minerals as manganese, magnesium, copper, selenium and phosphorus, a good way to get another B Vitamin, Pantothenic acid, and an excellent way to get folate and tryptophan into your diet.

They contain Vitamin E, a potent anti-oxidant that can protect the body from harmful traveling free radicals that trigger cardiovascular disease, strokes, various types of cancer and other illnesses.

Linoleic acid, an essential fatty acid, is plentiful in these particular seeds, helping to boost your body's metabolic rate so you can burn fat more efficiently. It also helps you to control your weight, and maintain healthy cholesterol, triglyceride, and insulin levels.

Decreasing abdominal fat and aiding muscle developMent are two bonuses you will receive from the linoleic acid that is found in the seeds. This is a strong weapon to use for your fat burning goal.

Sunflower seeds contain fiber that works with your digestion, plumps up stools, and hastens the elimination of toxins from your body. This gives you the sense of fullness but not the extra calories.

Tryptophan, an amino acid that releases serotonin in the brain, is helpful in making you feel full and in preventing you from eating too much food during breakFast, lunch and dinner. Also, it makes you feel great and can help with depression.

Sunflower seeds contain magnesium, which is helpful in lowering blood pressure, alleviating symptoms associated with asthma, warding off migraine headaches, and reducing the risk of having a heart attack or a stroke. This mineral works to make bones stronger too.

Magnesium adds to energy production and also helps the body metabolize fats, proteins, and carbohydrates.

The copper found in the seeds helps form elastin, red blood cells, and is also important in the formation of bones.

Phosphorus works with calcium to promote healthy bone developMent. In addition, it is vital for the repAir and growth of cells.

The mineral called selenium in these seeds contributes to optimum health. Selenium can assist in the synthesis of DNA repAir. It is also helpful in preventing cancer cell developMent.

The B Vitamins known as thiamin and Pantothenic acid help the body to produce energy, break down carbohydrates and fats, help the digestion, help the nervous system to function properly, and they also give extra strength to the wall muscles of the stomach.

Proper Preparation of Sunflower Seeds

You can buy sunflower seeds in two varieties: either in the shell or out of the shell. They are typically available from the store either in bulk quantities or in ready-to-use packages. When you buy seeds in bulk, be sure that the receptacles have lids over them, and check to make sure that the seeds are not moist, shriveled up, or damp. Also, make certain the merchant has a good rotation of bulk foods so you will end up with fresh seeds.

If you buy seeds in bulk receptacles, make sure they are not yellow, broken or dirty. They should have a firm appearance, and not be too soft. If the color is yellow, most likely they are spoiled. These should not be purchased.

Keep the sunflower seeds in the refrigerator in an Airtight container after you get them home. This is done because the seeds have a tendency to become rancid very quickly after being exposed to Air. Keep them frozen for up to a few months at a time.

If you have seeds still in the shell, use a grinder or seed mill. An alternative is to grind the seeds using a stand mixer. Once the seeds are ground up, pour them into icy water so the shells will separate from the nuts.

It may be a good idea if you cultivate your own sunflowers - I have several plants in my garden; there is a large variety of sunflower seeds available for sale, however, so it is just more convenient to buy them.

Here are some things you can do with sunflower seeds: Add them to salads - either mixed green or fruit salads. They are good with poultry as well as tuna. They also make a nice addition to vegetables.

Why not try a breakFast consisting of scrambled eggs and some added sunflower seeds for extra flavor and nutritional benefits?

A few creative chefs made the decision to grind some sunflower seeds and use them instead of flour (or add them to flour) or to sprinkle them on meat and pieces of chicken.

Try adding approximately one spoonful or handful of sunflower seeds to your cold or hot breakFast cereals. Enjoy a guilt-free treat!

Average Portion

Eat about 1/4 cup for each serving. It contains approximately 105.20 calories and weighs 36 grams.

Benefits of Sunflower Seeds - A Natural Fat Burning Food