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Kitchen Tips

These kitchen tips will help you become the ultimate Mexican home cook! Whether you’re looking for more information about a specific ingredient used in Mexican cooking or a how-to guide for special techniques, you’ll find it here! 
Mexican oregano dried whole leaves in a small white ramekin.

Kitchen Tips

Mexican Oregano

Fresh epazote on a cutting board.

Kitchen Tips

Epazote – All About The Mexican Herb

Crumbled cotija cheese on a gray stone plate.

Kitchen Tips

What Is Cotija Cheese? Ingredients, Substitutes, and Recipes

Oaxaca cheese on plate.

Kitchen Tips

Oaxaca Cheese

A skillet of cooked chorizo

Kitchen Tips

What is Chorizo?

Tomatillos on a white table.

Kitchen Tips

What are Tomatillos?

The Scoville Scale - A Guide to Hot Peppers

Kitchen Tips

The Scoville Scale – A Guide to Hot Peppers

Anaheim peppers on a table

Kitchen Tips

Anaheim Peppers

Dried ancho chile peppers on a white plate

Kitchen Tips

Ancho Chiles

A bottle of chamoy on a table.

Kitchen Tips

What Is Chamoy?

Hominy is a key ingredient in many Mexican dishes, but what exactly is it and how do you make it? Get the facts here and learn how to make it!

Kitchen Tips

Hominy and How to Use It

Vero Rebanaditas - The Best Mexican Candy

Kitchen Tips

The Best Mexican Candy

Lard in a small bowl with a spoon.

Kitchen Tips

What is Lard?

Pasilla peppers (chile pasilla) on a white plate

Kitchen Tips

Pasilla Peppers (Chile Pasilla)

Pepitas (roasted pumpkin seeds) on a table.

Kitchen Tips

Pepitas and How They’re Used

A bottle of tajin seasoning.

Kitchen Tips

Tajin Seasoning and How to Use It

Chipotle peppers in adobo sauce.

Kitchen Tips

All About Chipotle Peppers

An entire bunch of cilantro on a cutting board.

Kitchen Tips

Cilantro and How to Use It

An open tamarind pod for agua de tamarindo.

Kitchen Tips

What is Tamarind?

A piloncillo cone cut on a cutting board.

Kitchen Tips

What is Piloncillo?

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