The Cuisine of Michoacán and its Tortillas
On your next visit to
Pátzcuaro, delve into the cuisine of Michoacán. You will find a great diversity
of dishes in which corn is always the common denominator. All year long, you
can enjoy different delicacies, such as corundas, uchepos, tamales, gorditas,
and traditional tortillas that accompany delicious dishes of our gastronomy. If
you visit us in the rainy season, you be able to enjoy dishes like tender corn
or huitlacoche.
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| Mexican Cook from Michoacán |
The Traditional Mexican Cuisine was named a Cultural Intangible Heritage by UNESCO, taking the Michoacan Paradigm as a model, being a
cultural model where there is a collective participation including planting,
harvesting, preparation, and consumption of ancestral dishes.
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| Organic Mexican Corn to make tortillas at Lake Patzcuaro Region |
A visit to the market in Patzcuaro is always an experience. Discover the rich nuances of our local
cuisine. Taste the authentic flavor of tortillas made with recipes that have
been handed down from generation to generation. You can instantly tell by the
flavor, the texture, and the quality of the home made corn tortilla, that they
have nothing to do with flour tortillas from the big grocery stores.
Handmade Tortillas
Handmade corn dough is what
gives flavor to great tortillas – especially those made around Lake Patzcuaro!
Treat yourself! You can taste the whole process of sowing of the corn, shelling
it, boiling it, washing it, draining it, and grinding it to get the perfect
dough.
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| Michoacan Cooks from Pátzcuaro Lake Region |
The traditional corn
tortilla accompanies dishes of Michoacan cuisine that you can enjoy on your
tour of Lake Pátzcuaro: fish soup, charales, trout, traditional mole,
churipo, or zucchini or cabbage gravy.
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| Fish Soup a Traditional Dish from Lake Pátzcuaro made by Antonina González Leandro |
You'll find an astonishing
variety of dishes of Purépecha cooks. They use local products from the numerous
communities of the Lake Pátzcuaro that are sold in local food markets where
they still use the barter system to get their products.
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| Traditional Mexican Cuisine from Michoacán |
In addition to the traditional products of corn such as maize, beans, chili peppers or squash,
they also take advantage of squash flower in casseroles and quesadillas. They
also use “exotic” ingredients, like as quelites, habas, and nopales,
epazote, nurite, and anise.
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| Mexican Prehispanic Food from Michoacán |
Savoring this traditional
Michoacán element will help you to understand the importance of the tortilla in
the nutritional chain in Mexico: corn and water.
How to make Tortillas
If you are a connoisseur of
fine tortillas, you will always choose handmade corn tortilla over the
industrial flour tortilla; you will never settle for less.
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| Organic Mexican Corn to make tortillas at Patzcuaro Lake Region |
At Hotel Mansión Iturbe, we
recommend to our guests a visit to the "Centro de Interpretación de la Ruta Don Vasco in Patzcuaro". Among its many
attractions, you will find an astonishing, interactive table where you can
learn more about the Michoacán cuisine and get information about the kitchens
of the traditional cooks.
Come to Patzcuaro and enjoy
our cuisine!
*Text and pictures property of Hotel Mansion Iturbe.
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