Mexican Grill: Grilled meat, “Carne Asada a la Tampiqueña”, tricks from Chef Coty

17 Mar Mexican Grill: Grilled meat, “Carne Asada a la Tampiqueña”, tricks from Chef Coty

Posted at 18:09h in Cooking Class, Recipe by Jazmín Ortega

“Carne asada a la tampiqueña” is a typical dish from the north of Mexico which normally includes flank steak with different side dishes which include “rajas poblanas”, refried beans, guacamole and a mole enchilada. Of course warm corn tortillas and salsas are also served on the table as with most of mexican dishes.

Step by step with Chef Coty

The garnishes that we will learn to prepare complement the dish and will fill our palate with diverse flavors. For example, we’ll have the creaminess of the poblano pepper slices with onions, corn and cream cheese, the freshness of guacamole, the spiciness of a good salsa borracha, the eccentric sweetness of mole and of course, the juices of a great cut.

Chef Coty will teach us how to cook this dish and all the side dishes.

Link Youtube Step by step e

Poblano Pepper Slices Recipe

Preparing a dish is like talking of one or several places, like “carne asada a la tampiqueña”, with the side dish of rajas, using a pepper that comes from Puebla. “Arrachera” (flank steak) meat is typical from the north of Mexico, specially from Monterrey.
Cooking is exploring the country and it’s traditions.

Link to Youtube: Poblano Pepper Slices Recipe

The Avocado science.

Do you want to know how to choose the best avocado? We’ll find lots of tricks in the online cooking classes, Chef Coty shares with us secrets to maximize the use of avocado and prepare a delicious guacamole.

How to choose the right avocados, how to cut them correctly. How to keep the guacamole greener longer and how to balance the flavors with the pico de gallo added to it.

In the online cooking classes, Chef Coty shows us so many useful tricks on this topic!

Link to Youtube: The Avocado science

A Salsa secret so everyone likes it.

Mexican history and its traditions are present in the ingredients of so many dishes. Some of the kitchen utensils used have a cultural reason that makes cooking a true adventure, a continuing history lesson. An example of this is how Chef Coty explains about the molcajete.

Link to Youtube: Molcajete

Did you ever imagine that a salsa can have sugar? Chef Coty teaches us the tricks to balance bitterness or sourness with sweet during the cooking process.
Link to Youtube: A salsa secret

The “little tricks” for Meat

Adding salt to a flank steak before cooking? Chef Coty tells us the best moment to add salt and preserve the natural meat juices, and how to avoid getting it dry.
Link to Youtube: The little tricks

Each cooking class with Chef Coty includes the best presentation of the dish.
Watch in Youtube: the best presentation

Bonus

On the YouTube channel video, Chef Coty teaches us how to prepare a drink that goes with it in a creative way.

In the online cocktail classes we´ll learn about how to make her signature cocktails, like the beach cocktail with fresh ginger, orange juice,sugar, lime and rum that appears in the video.
Link to Youtube: Bonus cocktail classes

The Passion for Mexico in a Cooking Class

Mexican food is colorful and with incredible smells, different textures and incomparable flavors. At Chef Coty’s cooking class we will discover all of them!

If you want to see the exact amounts used to prepare this dish subscribe to the YouTube channel (link).

Enjoy the recipe, send your comments and pictures of your dish.