Monday to Saturday

Puebla's Taste

• Minimum number of participants: 1 Pax • Schedule: 11:00 to 14:00 • Meeting point: Puebla Zocalo (city central square) • Price per person: USD 75,00 • Price per couple: USD 89,99

• REVIEW: By trotting around town we will taste some of Puebla street food options such as cemitas, chalupas, pelonas, mole, molotes and "Jamaica" (hibiscus) drink or bottle of water. Tour price includes taste of a half-dozen of Puebla options. Non-alcoholic drink is offered.

• ACTIVITIES: Private tour in downtown Puebla and try local food

• TRANSPORT: Walking tour to mentioned activities

⊕ Note: For tour request, please email your full name, mobile number, number of passengers, day of tour and hotel name/address.

Sweet Potato Bar

Camotes

Camotes are sweet potate-based candies flavored with different fruits such as strawberry, orange or lime and come wrapped up like cigars.

Puebla Sandwich

Cemitas

Cemitas are a kind of sandwich served on a sesame-seed roll. The featured protein varies, common choices are pork "milanesa" and "pata de puerco", but it's nearly always accompanied by avocado, cheese, onion, olive oil, Serrano chili rajas or Chilpotle and some pápalo (summer cilantro) leaves.

Pa'l Antojo!

Chalupas

Chalupas are date back in Colonial times when Spanish settlers spent a good part of their days washing clothes by San Francisco river (now 5 de Mayo Boulevard). It's said that the women carried soiled garments to the river in wide-mouthed but relatively shallow wicker baskets called "chalupas" after which they would rush home and quickly fry up corn tortillas in lard and top them with leftover salsa and shredded pork and bits of onion.

Available from July to September

Chiles en Nogada

Chiles en Nogada are a rich and savory-sweet entrée that features a Poblano chili pepper stuffed with "picadillo" (ground or chopped pork or beef cooked with locally grown apples, pears and peaches). The chili is then dipped in an egg batter, deep fried and finished with a walnut cream sauce, parsley leaves and pomegranate seeds. The green, white and red toppings represent the colors in the Mexican flag. This seasonal dish is available from mid-late July through September, when its ingredients are at their peak.

Anytime snack

Gorditas

Memelas or "gorditas" are oval tortillas made with corn dough and hand smeared with lard, thick and carried inside ground beans. It is fried over low heat and covered with red or green "molcajete" salsa, sprinkled with cheese or "quesillo". Memela is a variant of tortilla and pueblan traditional dish that has existed since pre-Hispanic times. In the Resurrection neighboardhood of Puebla city over 70 percent of families, all members who speak Nahuatl (Aztec), remain from the sale of memelas and "gorditas" in different markets of the city.

Mixteco Recipe

Huaxmole

Huaxmole is a traditional dish from the kitchen of the “Mixteca Poblana” located in Southern Puebla State and prepared with goat meat, chili and “Huaje”. When it is not possible to have goat meat, you can use ram or beef. Huaxmole comes from Aztec word “Huaxmolli” literally means “Huaje” stew. Huaxmole has a ritual function and is served only on some holidays. It is not a food that is consumed usually in Mixteco communities, partly because of the onerous of preparation (recall that the Mixteca is one of the poorest areas throughout Mexico). However, in the cities of Matamoros and Acatlan Izucar Osorio in Puebla State it is possible to find Huaxmole in some restaurants.

Native Gourmet

Mixiotes

Mixiote is a typical dish from central Mexico, consisting of steamed chili-falvored beef, wrapped in a Maguey cactus film. This film is called mixiote. The meat can be used sheep, chicken, rabbit, pork, beef or fish, and cooked with some kind of sauce, chili and smelling herbs usually like avocado leaves, bay leaf, thyme, marjoram and oregano. Sometimes mixiotes can be filled with some seasoning, as nopales and potatoes.

October Mole

Mole de Caderas

Mole de Caderas (Goat Hip Mole) is a traditional dish of goat meat in the region of Tehuacan, Puebla. In preparing the mole hip flesh and bone of the hip, based condiments salt, chile used and dip in lemon to give it a special touch, with a broth of boiled meat with red hips and wild beans. Traditional Mexican dish which bears the distinctive ingredients hip and spine of goat. The sauce is made with guajillo, coastal and serrano chiles, tomato, tomato, avocado leaves, cilantro and bean typical of the region. Hips are cooked in water with onions, garlic, and salt; chiles are roasted and prepared in sauce, and it joins the broth with toasted avocado leaves; the beans are added when the meat is cooked.

Vegetable Mole

Mole de Olla

Mole de Olla is cooked with vegetables such as green beans, corn, squash, zucchini and potato; also usually seasoned with various herbs, especially with epazote. One of the most important ingredients is the xoconostle whose flavor is strong bittersweet, its most common use is in sauces or seasoning mole de olla and which gives more flavor. Dried chile, onion and garlic are the condiments saucer and important source of protein and nutrients. And finally, beef is the protein attached to the plate.

Culinary Art from Puebla

Mole Poblano

Mole Poblano is a culinary specialty of the city of Puebla. Originally consisted mainly sauce a variety of ingredients poured over turkey pieces but is now common use with chicken or other meats. Mole poblano sauce combines several ingredients such as cocoa or chocolate tablet with no or very little sweet, ancho chilies, mulato chiles, pasilla chiles, chipotle, tomatoes, almonds, bananas, nuts, raisins, sesame seeds, cloves, cinnamon, parsley, pepper, onion, garlic and tortillas. Correct proportions, properly not exist, and some ingredients may be waived or varied in proportion. It is essential that one day before preparing the mole should be roasted and remove seeds from chiles, then soak them in salt water overnight.

When Fat Tastes Good

Molotes

Molote is part of Mexican cuisine, especially the Mexican snacks. It is a popular food in some states of Mexico such as Puebla. It is a dish made with corn masa mixture and mashed potatoes, which were filled with "picadillo" meat (hash) shredded beef or some other dish. Fry in plenty of butter or oil.

Good Fried Sandwich

Pelona

Pelona is fried piece of bread in oil and filled with chicken or pork, cream, lettuce, and green or red salsa.

Pumpkin Seed Mole

Pipian Verde

Pipian Verde is a characteristic sauce from Puebla cuisine made with pumpkin seeds, depending on the additional ingredients can be red and green varieties. It is used for chicken or pork dishes.

Puebla Arabic Taco

Tacos Arabes

Tacos Arabes (Arabic Tacos) are arabic-recipe to cook "pork meat" tacos were likely influenced by inmigrant cooks from Iran and Lebannon to Puebla. It is stacked with pork instead of traditional lamb because Puebla likes pork better. "Tacos arabes" pile slices of spit-roasted pork on pita-like flatbread to which dinners add Chilpotle or spices salsas to taste and squeeze of lime slices to get a richer flavored taco.

Recipe in Red Tomato

Tinga Poblana

Tinga is made with shredded meat (chicken, beef or pork), a sauce of tomato, onion, garlic and a variety of chiles. Originally from Puebla State, it is always consumed as a garnish for other dishes such as Tinga "tostadas" or filled Tinga "molotes". The original Puebla recipe consists of finely shredded chicken breast, onion, finely chopped garlic, chipotle chili to taste, diced tomato, oregano, thyme laurel, pepper and salt.

Milky Pumpkin Seed Cookies

Tortitas de Santa Clara

Tortitas de Santa Clara are round, shortbread-like cookie topped with sugary pumpkin-seed icing.