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These Mexican food cooking tips will help you to deal with Mexican food and recipes more easily. Any person that does not know Spanish faces the problem that he or she does not understand a thing in all those recipes with their salsas, tacos, enchiladas, tortillas, tamales, quesadillas and sopapillas, letting alone the names of Mexican herbs, spices and chiles (total number of chile pepper species used in Mexican cuisine is about 140). These Mexican food cooking tips will give you brief definitions to at least the most frequently used terms of the Mexican menu.

So naturally Mexican food cooking tips should start with tortillaswhich are Mexican thin, corn bread, used both like a bread and like a base for other dishes, tacos for example. Tacos can be of two types: soft and fried. For this dish tortillas are folded and stuffed with lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, salsa and either pork, beef, fish or chicken. Quesadillas differ from tacos in size (they are considerably bigger) and unlike in tacos all the ingredients stuffed into tortilla or masa (corn dough) are fresh, not cooked. Qeusadillas are cooked afterwards. Enchiladas are similar to tacos too, but tortillas for them are fried in oil, then stuffed with any filling and then rolled, heated, smothered with sauce and topped with cheese. Sopapillas are quick bread fried to the puff and crisp state. Tamales are made with masa dough topped with vegetables, meat, spices, wrapped into a banana leaf or a corn husk and warmed up. Mole sauce is a very complex sauce, made with chiles, nuts, fruits, vegetables, chocolate and seasonings. It is served on holidays with beef and chicken. 

And the last but not the least point in our Mexican food cooking tips is salsas (sauces) which are a key moment in any Mexican dish. Salsas can be made from either raw or cooked vegetables and fruits with the addition of chiles. As for chiles,its just impossible to know them all. Just for general knowledge, it is worth remembering that the hottest chile is called habanero and the mildest one anaheim.