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Truly Mexican: Essential Recipes and Techniques for Authentic Mexican Cooking Hardcover – April 19, 2011

by Roberto Santibanez (Author), JJ Goode (Author), Romulo Yanes (Author)

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Amazing, authentic Mexican cooking for the home kitchen

Mexican cuisine is an American favorite from coast to coast, but many people are too intimidated to try cooking real Mexican meals in their own kitchens. In Truly Mexican, Roberto Santibañez shows you that it's the flavors that are complex, not the cooking. With effortless preparations and fresh, flavorful ingredients, Mexican home cooking can be simple and simply delicious.

An introduction to Mexican cooking covers the main ingredients as well as how they're best prepared—from toasting tortillas to roasting tomatoes—and offers a few simple kitchen commandments that make great results a given. Recipes cover main dishes, sides, salsas, guacamoles, moles, adobos, and more.

Features 128 recipes for authentic Mexican favorites—from classic tacos and tamales to stunning dishes like Braised Short Ribs Adobo and Red Snapper Papillotes in Green Mole
Includes a useful Sources section to help readers track down authentic Mexican ingredients
Provides straightforward instructions on essential techniques like roasting chiles, making fresh tortillas, and filling enchiladas

Illustrated throughout with dramatic photos that evoke bold Mexican flavors, Truly Mexican puts the real tastes of Mexico within easy reach.

Sample Recipes

Simple Pumpkin Seed Sauce
Pipián Verde
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Lamb Adobo Enchiladas with Cooked Green Salsa
Enchiladas de Borrego Adobado con Salsa Verde Cocida
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Blue Cheese Guacamole
Guacamole Con Queso Azul
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TRULY MEXICAN by Roberto Santibañez with J. J. Goode and Shelley Wiseman focuses on sauces, with chapters on salsas, guacamoles, adobos and moles. So rather than create composed dishes, you can use his unusual red peanut sauce or deep, rich adobo D. F., made with chiles and Mexican chocolate, to dress rotisserie chicken. Try a few more recipes from Mr. Santibañez — Rosa Mexicano's culinary director before he opened Fonda in Brooklyn — and anchos, pasillas and guajillos could become regulars in your cupboard. (New York Times Dining Section, November 2011)

Santibañez, a Le Cordon Bleu–trained chef and owner of the Brooklyn eatery, Fonda, born and raised in Mexico City, didn't set out to pen a "comprehensive" guide to Mexican cooking or the rich history of the country's food, but instead focuses solely on sauces--from salsas to adobos to moles--emphasizing techniques that home cooks can master and use in various dishes. With the goal "to convert as many readers as I could from people who would love to cook Mexican food to people who cook Mexican food they love," the author lays a solid foundation with a chapter on ingredients, technique, and equipment. The 140 recipes include a selection of guacamoles including departures from the classic such as a blue cheese guacamole, an apple-tequila guacamole, and a seafood guacamole. Recipes for adobos lead readers to main courses featuring various proteins such as adobo-braised lamb or a grilled skirt steak marinated in adobo. While one won't find desserts or suggested menus, the author's expertise is conveyed in a straightforward and inspiring tone that will instill confidence in cooks eager to prepare Mexican meals at home, regardless of previous experience or skill level. (Apr.) (Publishers Weekly, March 2011)

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"Roberto Santibañez is that rare bird—a great chef and a great teacher—and it's the combination of these talents that makes this book so wonderful. It's an excellent tutorial on Mexican sauces: the ingredients, the techniques, the multiple dishes you can make from each of them, as well as the lip-smacking side dishes that go with them. If you want to cook Mexican food at home more often—and who doesn't?—this is the book for you."
—Sara Moulton, author of Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners

"Truly Mexican breathes the soul and spirit of Mexican cuisine. It is an exceptional book that discloses the essence of Mexican cuisine, from simple street foods like tacos to complex masterpieces like moles. An essential work for anyone who is passionate about this amazing cuisine."
—Mark Miller, author of The Great Chile Book, Tamales, Tacos, and other books

"With this text, Chef Santibañez has moved the understanding of Mexican cuisine forward in a significant way. Although the recipes in this book are, by themselves, a wonderful collection, Roberto delivers them in a format that leaves the reader with true knowledge of the Mexican kitchen."
—Mark Erickson, Certified Master Chef and Vice President–Dean of Culinary Education at The Culinary Institute of America

"Roberto Santibañez's excellent Truly Mexican is a book that should be on the shelves of home cooks who really want to know what Mexican food is all about."
—Zarela Martinez, www.zarela.com

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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (April 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470499559
ISBN-13: 978-0470499559
Product Dimensions: 9 x 1.1 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (123 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,936 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I tackled the Black Mole from Oaxaca, and it was so worth it!

By subrosa on July 15, 2011

Format: Hardcover

I got this book because I love Fonda, Roberto Santibanez's restaurant in Brooklyn, and because I just moved to a college town in the midwest and was hurting REAL BAD for good mexican food. We don't get that here-- just things with sticky orange cheese sauce. So if I wanted good Mexican, i had to learn how to make it. And since Fonda was the restaurant that really opened my eyes to the endless, fresh, and elegant possibilities of Mexican food, this book seemed like a good choice.

My first time out, i did exactly what you are NOT supposed to do and tackled the most complicated recipe in the book, the black mole from Oaxaca. He suggests you start simpler and work up to that, but I was hungry and ambitious. I invited a friend over and we made an evening of it, taking turns with the roasting, seeding, and frying, and then we waited, while it burbled gently on the stove, and read People en Espanol. We poached chicken breasts and also made the fresh tomatillo salsa, and then we sat down to eat with our friends. You have never heard such amazement-- from us and from them. We made this?! We made this! We can;t believe we made this! It was worth every minute, and that is a recipe i would not have wanted to attempt in less capable hands.

Since then, I've made the Pistachio pipian, carnitas, a bunch of the salsas (try the cucumber!) and three adobos. And I am a Mexican cooking goddess, right here in the snowy midwest.

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Truly is Truly Mexican!

By Joanne on May 15, 2011

Format: Hardcover

I have Santibanez' first book and his Enchiladas Suizas are my go-to recipe. I've seen him occasionally on TV. He is not as well known as Rick Bayless, but he is the real deal. I love the way this book is organized--three notable chapters are (1) SALSAS: recipes using mostly fresh ingredients such as tomatoes, tomatillos, fresh peppers, onions, and sometimes mixed with dried chiles, etc. (2) GUACAMOLES: about a dozen variations to play with; (3) ADOBOS: recipes using dried chilies and very few pantry ingredients such as salt, vinegar, sugar, etc.. Another chapter on MOLES is there when feeling more adventurous to use more ingredients and when the time allows. I jumped in w/the Adobos. Used some guajillos I had stored. I got my feet wet with the dried guajillo adobo paste, then marinated and grilled a skirt steak with it. I am 'jumping ahead' today to a 3-chile blend adobo. Dried chilies are available most everywhere now and tons of places online so no excuse to not make these. Even the layout of each chapter shows thought and clear planning as well. The one-chili adobo recipes come first, then the two-, and 3-chili blend adobos. I find this so user friendly when entering a new domain of cooking with chilies. He explains that adobos can be used as a thicker paste to marinate and coat a meat/fish for grilling/frying, or using more of it with broth it can be used for slow cooking and braising. He gives specific recipes using all kinds of meats while recommending specific adobos for each. The only change I make is to add more sweetener by a tbs. or two (agave, honey, etc) than he lists and sometimes when he doesn't. Unless you're a 'Truly' Mexican chili head, you may agree with me. To my palate, it helps to balance out the heat.Read more ›

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Very few recipes of actual meals

By J Styles on December 19, 2011

Format: Hardcover

I'm slightly scared to write this review, because another reviewer got flamed pretty bad for saying the same thing. But I have to reiterate. Regardless if it is forewarned in the description that - this is not much of a mexican "meal" cookbook (as in, preparing an entire dish/entree). I bought this as a gift for someone to learn some mexican recipes, to cook actual mexican meals. But I have returned this book because it probably only contains maybe 2 dozen (if that) actual recipes for entrees (and thats pushing it too because there are seperate recipes for each one chicken with X sauce, pork with X sauce, fish with X sauce. There are roughly 160 pages dedicates to sauces, salsa, guacamole (this is not an exaggeration). Needless to say - without knowing any better - sauces must be important to mexican cooking - but this book would have been much better if titled "Mexican sauces, salsa, and guacamole... and a few things to put it on". I'm writing this review because I'm confident it will help someone else who might want to buy this book.

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A new look at an underrated cuisine

By Brian Connors VINE VOICE on May 25, 2011

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One thing's for sure -- this is a rather beautiful cookbook. The graphic design seems drawn from the Culinary Institute of America's more recent cookbooks, appropriate since author Santibañez works with them on occasion. The usual (dare I say stereotypical) yellows and earth tones that seem to mark most Mexican cookbooks give way to food photography that would be the pride of any cuisine, and even the cover is dominated by pink more than anything else. If you want this book for nothing more than graphic design and food porn, it's a five-star book on that reason alone.

But that obscures something fundamentally different about this book -- while giving props to people like Rick Bayless for their work on Mexican regional cooking, Santibañez seeks to find what unifies Mexican food rather than differentiates it, and he does this by placing an emphasis on sauces, an approach that might come off as a bit heretical to the average grandmother but is directly inspired by Escoffier's work with French cuisine. As a result, the book frames much of its cooking in terms of characteristic flavors, and many of the pictures are recipes in their own right, foods cooked in and/or dressed with the sauces written up in the book. There's a few of the more popular basics like tacos and tamales, but they're really sideshows, things to make with the flavors the book explores.

All in all, I don't have a single bad thing to say about this book. It brings out some of the haute cuisine aspects of the cuisine that aren't really well known north of the border, as well as making improvisation in a Mexican style every bit as easy as Italian or French. There's no reason whatsoever to denigrate Rick Bayless or Diana Kennedy; they're as good as it gets. But Santibañez brings something new to the party, the roots of a nueva cocina mexicana that might just be the beginning of something big.

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As that it is perfect.

This book might be subtitled, "The essential sauces of Mexican cooking: Salsa, Guacamole, and Mole." It is not so much a recipe book as a 'how to cook Mexican' book. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Amazon Customer

I recommend

A very nice book for anyone wanting to improve their Mexican cooking. This book mainly gives you the sauces, marinades, rubs, and techniques behind great Mexican food. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Chef Clay

excellent for professional chefs and home cooks

Absolutely beautiful book. The pictures are gorgeous, the recipes are very detailed and easy to follow. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Aristodemus

but many of them are very easy for beginners and delicious

At first I was a little intimidated by the recipes, but many of them are very easy for beginners and delicious. Read more

Published 9 months ago by Bookaholic

Love it! A new obsession!

Somehow I stumbled on Roberto's Tacos, Tortas and Tamales (I LOVE tacos!) and made a couple of recipes from that and was so impressed that I immediately purchased his other two... Read more

Published 9 months ago by NZ2AU2AZ

Five Stars

Very good Mexican cookbook

Published 10 months ago by R

It is focused primarily on Moles and Salsas and it does an excellent...

This is the second book of his that I own. Santibanez has a true passion for the cuisine of his native land and it shows in all of his books.

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Published 11 months ago by Zdzislaw Nagengast

Great Mexican cookbook

This is a great cookbook - I use it all the time!

Published 12 months ago by Jenn

The taqueria guacamole in the cookbook is amazing. If you bought this...

The taqueria guacamole in the cookbook is amazing. If you bought this just for that it would be worth it. Read more

Published 12 months ago by Margaret Buhn

Great book, the information the Chef gives you for ...

Great book, the information the Chef gives you for the products you will use through out the book are very helpful. Read more

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