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Recipes, Sauces, Dips & Spreads, Vegan

Sikil Pak, Maya Pumpkin Seed Dip

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Recipes, Sauces, Dips & Spreads, Vegan

Mexican Salsa Brava – Your new fave tomato sauce

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Testing Kitchen: The JFC Burrito Take 1

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  • Recipes,  Sauces, Dips & Spreads,  Vegan

    Sikil Pak, Maya Pumpkin Seed Dip

    15 June 2020 /

    Sikil Pak -or Sikil P’ak- is one of the dips I made for a Mexican dinner I hosted in February 2020. That night I deployed some heavy stile artillery: Pork Shoulder Carnitas, fried Pig’s Head, Pibil Chicken, Huitlacoche and Chilorio Quesadillas, Doritos Locos and Totopos with sauces and dips, and Peanut & Chocolate ice cream. That dinner was a kind of prequel of Cantina Canalla, and advance of what was to come.   About Sikil Pak Originally from Yucatan, you use with roasted pumpkin seeds, tomatoes and Habanero chillies to make Sikil -tomato- Pak -pumpkin seed-. This is -let’s call it like this- a primitive Sikil Pak, the primary stuff Mayas…

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    Boris Jodar
  • el chapo chilorio
    Burritos, Tortas & More,  Testing Kitchen

    El Chapo – Take 2 – Testing Kitchen

    This second take on El Chapo was a kind of failure as it didn’t taste as good as the first one but it got me closer to what I’m searching and how I want to make it. Do you feel…

    By Boris Jodar
  • Chef Roi Burrito
    Burritos, Tortas & More,  Testing Kitchen

    Testing Kitchen: The Chef Roi Burrito – Takes 1 & 2

    The Chef Roi is a Korean inspired burrito. It get its name after Roi Choi, a Korean-American chef that has been rocking the taco scene in L.A. since 2008.  I just first came in contact with his food while making…

    By Boris Jodar
  • Torta Cubana
    Burritos, Tortas & More

    Torta Cubana: Mexico City’s Greatest Sandwich – Part II

    The Real Cuban Connection As we said in our the Part I, there’s nothing like a Torta Cubana in Cuba. However, we do find something similar like Don Polo’s Cubana on the island: the Medianoche -”Midnight”, in Spanish-, a sandwich…

    By Boris Jodar
  • Torta Cubana
    Burritos, Tortas & More

    Torta Cubana: Mexico City’s Greatest Sandwich- Part I

    Torta Cubana is Mexico City’ signature sandwich. And like this megalopolis, it is enormous, gigantic. A Torta Cubana is an entity where beef escalope, ham, cooked pork leg, frankfurters, chorizo, various kinds of cheeses, eggs, avocado, tomatoes and, maybe, even…

    By Boris Jodar
  • Tepache
    Drinks,  Recipes,  Vegan

    How to make Tepache – Our house recipe

    Tepache is one of the best fermented drinks you can make at home: it’s very affordable and easy as fuck. It has all the benefits from a probiotic drink and all the vitamins from the pineapple; because unlike other Tepache…

    By Boris Jodar
  • Tepache
    Drinks,  Testing Kitchen,  Vegan

    Testing Kitchen: Tepache

    Our Tepache is different from the classic one. I’m making some substantial changes that purists won’t agree with but that make our drink more suitable for the modern taste.   I want to use all the benefits from the pineapple, so…

    By Boris Jodar
  • Tepache
    Drinks,  Vegan

    Tepache: a naturally fermented pineapple drink

    Tepache is a Mexican drink made of pineapple, cinnamon, cloves and a special kind of brown sugar called “piloncillo”. As the title says, it is a naturally fermented drink, which means you “brew” it using the wild yeasts and bacterias…

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  • Mexican Salsa Brava
    Recipes,  Sauces, Dips & Spreads,  Vegan

    Mexican Salsa Brava – Your new fave tomato sauce

    There’s a certain controversy about how the sauce for Patatas Bravas should be. On one side, we’ve got the Madrid purists who put no tomato in their sauce; on the other side, the ones who make their sauce with tomato.…

    By Boris Jodar
  • vegan lime coriander aioli
    Recipes,  Sauces, Dips & Spreads,  Vegan

    Vegan Lime & Coriander Aioli for Patatas Bravas

    This Vegan Lime & Coriander Aioli is a very important element of our Mexican Patatas Bravas, alongside the Mexican Salsa Brava and the Salsa Macha. Without a good aioli there’s no Patatas Bravas in Barcelona. It’s part of their identity,…

    By Boris Jodar
  • Building the Cantina

    Building the Cantina: Recipes and Costing

    As obvious as it is, food is the most important element of a restaurant. However, getting the recipes is not easy at all, specifically to materialize them, to get them as you first imagined in order to meet your and…

    By Boris Jodar
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The Guerrilla Burrito. . Named after a sweet potat The Guerrilla Burrito.
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Named after a sweet potato taco created by @guerrillatacos, in Los Angeles, following most of their recipe but in our own style, like roasting the sweet potato or caramelising the leeks.
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You may say: “Hey, that’s not original! You’re coping them, you plagiarist!”. But you must understand that there’s nothing more Mexican than taking something successful and make it yours, with your own personal touches and variations. That’s the story and history of Mexican food.
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And no one there feels ashamed. It’s us, the rest, with our cultural obsession for being original who put the shame on the copy. Not us. We’re very proud of our copies, we don’t pretend to be the creators and always give credit to our inspirations. That’s our story and history.
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#londonfood #londoneats #londonlunch #londondinner #londontacos #tacotuesday #tacothursday #tacofriday #tacos #mexicanfood #comidamexicana #burritos #antojitos #botanas #northlondon #enfield #enfieldtown #barnet #winchmorehill #southgate #boundsgreen #palmersgreen #arnosgrove
Last week for you to enjoy our Tacos Perrones and Last week for you to enjoy our Tacos Perrones and Guerrilla Burritos at home! We are changing our menu on March and more new and exciting food is coming! 
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A Taco Perrón is an absolute unit of a taco. It comes with a mix of grated Edam and Cheddar cheeses, slow roasted pork ribs -no bones, no hard bits, just softness-, beans, red chile sauce, Chipotle smashed avocado and chopped onion & coriander. Everything on handmade flour tortillas. And we give you all you need to enjoy three of them at home. 
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The Guerrilla Burritos are kind of gourmet food, despite the name, as they feature soft refried beans -we sieve them to remove skins and bits-, roasted sweet potatoes, caramelised leeks, barrel aged feta and almond sauce. It comes on a handmade flour tortilla, not the industrial ones. 
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We are currently accepting orders for this week, just send us a DM with your order and address and get ready to have some of the best Mexican food on this side of the Piccadilly line! 
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#londonfood #londoneats #londonlunch #londondinner #takeaway #londontakeaway #londontacos #mexicanfood #comidamexicana #tacothursday #tacotuesday #tacofriday #burritos #northlondon #enfield #enfieldtown #barnet #haringey #winchmorehill #southgate #palmersgreen #boundsgreen #eastbarnet #arnosgrove
Fried Chicken Taco: Southern style chicken strips, Fried Chicken Taco: Southern style chicken strips, Mexican slaw, avocado, pico de gallo, roasted garlic mayonnaise. 
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We are currently working on the menu for March, and it’s highly probable that this taco will be included. London loves her fried chicken, and if London wants fried chicken, we will serve it on a flour tortilla. To stay friends with those fuelled by plants, there will be an alternative with crispy oyster mushrooms. 
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Stay tuned and remember this Friday we’ll be at @hotmilkcafe with @neighbourhoodpopups and some banging Taco Kits
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#londonfood #londoneats #londonlunch #londondinner #takeaway #londontakeaway #londontacos #mexicanfood #comidamexicana #tacothursday #tacotuesday #tacofriday #northlondon #enfield #enfieldtown #barnet #haringey #winchmorehill #southgate #palmersgreen #boundsgreen #eastbarnet #arnosgrove
Takeaway Pop Up, with @neighbourhoodpopups.
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We’re putting our taco presses to work once again this Friday 19th, at @hotmilkcafe -Bounds Green-. We’ll be making some banging Taco Kits for you to enjoy at home. We’re talking about Pork Carnitas and Tamarind Tofu. We’re taking about Pork confit in oil till falling apart and tofu covered in Tamarind sauce which, believe it or not, tastes very similar to BBQ sauce, so imagine how good it will be! 
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To place your order, just visit the link in our bio. We’re offering free delivery for those who live in Barnet, Enfield, Winchmore Hill, Southgate, Palmers Green and surrounding areas. Great, isn’t it? 😎 See you on Friday! 
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#londonfood #londoneats #londonlunch #londondinner #londontakeaway #takeaway #londontacos #mexicanfood #comidamexicana #tacotuesday #tacothursday #tacofriday #botanas #antojitos #northlondon #boundsgreen #barnet #enfield #enfieldtown #winchmorehill #haringey #southgate #arnosgrove #palmersgreen
Almond Salsa Brava. . We had plenty of solids from Almond Salsa Brava.
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We had plenty of solids from the Almond Sauce in the Guerrilla Burritos and some Red Taquera Sauce leftover, so we made this sauce. Salsa Brava is the sauce for Spanish Patatas Bravas; there are plenty of styles of cooking it as long as you don’t make it with ketchup and Tabasco. 
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The idea was to have a Botana’ Sauce, a light, tasty and spicy sauce for all your snacks, crisps, fries and meals, in general. However, I got it a bit too thick. Still a nice sauce, though but now perfect for tacos, burritos and fries. Two key aspects of this:
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Zero Waste, because waste is a big problem these days, specially in the hospitality sector; so it’s nice to give a second chance to food and ingredients otherwise will end up in the bin.
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Reuse. Our society is so focus on the recycling solution to waste that we have forgotten the reuse dimension of some items. Glass bottles can have infinite lives, as long as they are clean and not chipped. I want to give them another chance with sauces. This is an aspect I’m exploring and considering very seriously as a business. 
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We’ll be working on this and another bottled sauces on the next weeks. Stay tuned!
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#londonfood #londoneats #londonfoodie #londonlunch #londondinner #londontacos #mexicanfood #comidamexicana #spanishfood #comidaespañola #patatasbravas #salsabrava #salsabotanera #botanas #antojitos #tacos #burritos #tacotuesday #northlondon #enfield #enfieldtown #barnet #haringey #winchmorehill #southgate #boundsgreen #palmersgreen
Taco Perrón, the Bitchin’ Taco! . This is the Taco Perrón, the Bitchin’ Taco! 
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This is the co-star in our menu during February, straight from Rosarito and Tijuana. This taco may be new to London but it ain’t new to the streets! Roasted pork ribs marinated overnight in a special spice mix, cooked beans, onion & coriander, smash avocado and red taquera sauce, everything on a flour & lard handmade tortilla, with melted cheese. 
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We’re delivering everything you need to recreate two of this Bitchin’ Tacos at home for £9. Just send us a DM and get ready to enjoy some awesome tacos!
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#londonfood #londoneats #londonfoodie #londoneats #londonlunch #londondinner #londontakeaway #londontacos #tacoperron #tacotuesday #tacothursday #mexicanfood #comidamexicana #northlondonmums #northlondon #enfield #enfieldtown #enfieldmums #winchmorehill #winchmorehillmums #southgate #southgatemums #barnet #barnetmums #boundsgreen #arnosgrove
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