Michoacan Cuisine: A World Heritage
Our guests at Hotel Mansión Iturbe in Pátzcuaro enjoy Michoacan cuisine when visiting us in our Magic Village. Several of these dishes can be found not only in our Doña Paca Restaurant, but also those prepared by traditional cooks in the communities of the Lake Region.
Thanks to the traditional cooks of Michoacan, much of the culinary background is preserved, delighting us with its ancestral recipes.
Traditional cooks
have done a great job sharing their inherited traditions; in addition to
recovering and valuing the culinary art of their ancestors.
It is important to note that, in traditional Michoacan cuisine, there are excellent chefs, who have gained renown by
innovating dishes using traditional ingredients, as well as preserving the
traditions of their mothers and grandmothers.
Michoacan cuisine
shows us delicious range of extraordinary variety, with its ethnic flavors that
have been mixed with other cultures. It is very attractive for those who
like to try new flavors, and to find multiple healthy options.
A complex
Mesoamerican intercropping method called “milpa” is the basis of the
agriculture of the native peoples in Mexico. It is a system whereby corn,
beans, squash, and chili coexist and form symbiotic relationships with each other. You will appreciate this
marriage when tasting traditional dishes such as atapakuas, which
are thick and very substantial sauces – considered very nutritious since
pre-Hispanic times.
Among the ingredients used by the traditional
cooks of Michoacán, we find local ingredients that are often grown
themselves in backgrounds.
It should be emphasized that, in
pre-Hispanic times, the Purépecha (indigenous) community used cooking
methods for their foods that didn’t include fat, and using aromatic herbs such
as avocado leaf, chayote leaf, mint, or epazote to name a few.
Some of the traditional dishes you'll
find are the churipo (a delicious variation of beef stew),
different broths, dough-based delicacies like corunda, uchepos and gorditas,
stewed quelites of different shapes, beans, pumpkin
flower, pozole, a wide variety of atoles or a
delicious dessert, such as the traditional capirotada and
sweets and preserves with fruits of the region such as peaches, tejocotes or chilacayote.
Currently traditional Mexican cuisine
is booming and Michoacán is a hot point when we refer to the topic of
traditional cooks. This has been achieved through an intense work in which many
of these traditional cooks have become micro-entrepreneurs.
When taking a tour of the different
typical villages of our region, try their cuisine in different villages to
taste subtle variations in different dishes.
Come to Michoacán and enjoy our
delicious cuisine, especially that of the Lake Pátzcuaro region!
*Text and pictures property of Hotel Mansión Iturbe.
We invite you to check more post in our blog, you will find information about Pátzcuaro and its surroundings, that we hope will be useful for your next trip to our colonial town in Mexico.
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