Appetizers from Around the World
Recipes From Mexico

This zesty mix of fresh seafood, tomato and lime juices, and hot sauce is a refreshing snack or light meal eaten along Mexico's coasts.

Inspired by Mexican street vendors who artfully carve and serve mangoes on sticks, this recipe ups the ante with cilantro leaves and shaved coconut for a refreshing fruit salad. This salad is light and flavorful.

In coastal Oaxaca, both fresh and dried shrimp appear in all kinds of preparations. In this recipe, they bring texture and intense umami flavor to a classic pico de gallo. Dry shrimp is a very popular ingredient in Mexican recipes and it is not surprising that Mexico produces large quantities of dried shrimp using the sun drying technique. With this drying process the shrimp become smaller but intensifies its flavor. The dry shrimp sauce with chipotle chile is a preparation that surprises you by the mixture of strong flavors that combine in a very subtle way. It is a very interesting sauce for its marine flavor that is wrapped with the touch of the smoked and almost sweet chipotle chili.