Spanish Names For American Food Mexican Food Spanish Names For American Food

Mexican food…is from Mexico!

Ingredients

That looks great!/That looks terrible! Rate the food as you see it. Tell me: That looks great! OR That looks terrible!

Jalapeno The jalapeno pepper is green. The red one is a red hot chili pepper. Jalapeno peppers are not as spicy as chili peppers. Jalapeno poppers are jalapenos stuffed with cheese.

Refried beans

Sour Cream

Cheese Mexicans use cheddar and Monterrey jack cheeses.

Tomatillo A tomatillo is a little green tomato with a papery shell.

Onions White Purple Yellow Pearl Green

Cilantro Cilantro is a green plant with fat leaves.

Pico de Gallo Pico de gallo is tomatoes, red and white onions, jalapenos, and cilantro. Cilantro is a green plant.

Guacamole Guacamole is squashed avocadoes with lime juice.

Avocado

Limes

Meats Chicken Pork Beef

Seafood Fish Shrimp

Tortillas Tortillas are made of flour or corn and cooked on a flat metal plate. You wrap the tortilla around your food, just like Koreans wrap seaweed around rice.

Quesadilla A quesadilla is a Mexican pizza. There is cheese, vegetables, and meat (chicken, beef, pork) or seafood (shrimp) melted between two tortillas. It is served with sour cream, Mexican rice, pico de gallo, and refried beans.

Fajita A fajita is grilled meat or seafood and vegetables. It is served with rice, refried beans, pico de gallo, and tortillas.

Burrito A burrito is the same as a fajita, but the meat doesn’t come out sizzling (cooking) on a plate. Burritos can have just beans and cheese in them. You can put eggs in them and eat them for breakfast!

Tamale Tamales are corn husks (the outside of corn) wrapped around meat and cheese.

Enchilada Enchiladas are like small burritos with a red sauce (salsa roja) or green sauce (salsa verde).

Mole Mole is a spicy sauce with…chocolate!

Nachos

Tortilla Chips

Stuffed Jalapenos

Bell Peppers There are red, green, orange, and yellow bell peppers.

Discussion Mexican food is from ___________? Where is Mexico? It is below the ___________. What are some Mexican vegetables? They are ____________, ______________, _________, and ____________. What meats to Mexicans use? They use __________ , ________, and _________. What seafood do Mexicans use? They use ___________ and __________,

Taboo Game One person sits facing away from the screen. The other people have to describe the item WITHOUT SAYING THE WORD. The person in the chair has to guess the word. ENGLISH ONLY. Have fun!

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Taboo Game: What is it?

Create a Dish Get into groups. Using the vegetables, rice, tortillas, beans, sauces, and meat we have gone over, create a Mexican dish. Corn, black beans, refried beans, bell peppers, jalapenos, tomatillos, pico del gallo, mole, sour cream, rice, tortillas, fish, shrimp, beef, chicken, pork.

Create a Dish Our food is called ___________. The shopping list is: You make it by cooking the __________ and _________, and adding the ___________. It is delicious!

Create a Dish Come up to the front of the class and describe your dish. Let the other groups rate the dish: That looks great! That looks fantastic! That looks terrible! That looks disgusting! Let’s vote on the best dish!

Conclusion Today, we learned about Mexican food. We learned what Mexican food looks like. You rated the food, good/bad, delicious/terrible. You made your own Mexican food dish. Great job! Have a great day!