Catemaco Recipes
| Until a few decades ago, Catemaco was famous for its wild game and other strange critter dishes. The last holdovers of turtle and iguana stews have all but disappeared publicly. On the surrounding ranches, cowboys still feast on armadillos, raccoons and opossums. Deer and wild pigs are mostly forgotten. The only official remnant of those savory days is "Carne de Chango", Monkey Meat, which has been reinvented with smoked pork to protect the few remaining surviving monkeys. Local housewives still prepare dishes you never see on restaurant menus. Casbela - squash stewed with pork ribs Chocholos - bean and corn flour balls boiled in soups Mondongo - beef intestines and stomach linings boiled with lime and acuyo (the leaves used to wrap tamales) Tortas de Yuca - cassava, egg, butter, sugar and cinnamon prepared like a pancake. If you want to make your own monkey meat, here is the carne de chango recipe: Cut pork loin into strips, marinate in orange and lime juice (3 to 1), salt and pepper for a few hours. Built a small enclosed wood fire, stoke it with green wood, chunks of dried sugarcane and guava tree leaves until the meat turns nice and red, usually a few hours. And here is my favorite recipe: Catch a few fish, gut them. Or buy them still wiggling at the Sontecomapan fish farm. Chop some garlic. Heat 1/4 inch oil with garlic in a frying pan. Fry the fish till golden brown. Towel off the grease. Salt and pepper to taste. EAT with lots of lime juice. |
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