A Book of 50 Plant-Based Mexican Recipes
Learning to cook your own food is empowering, as you no longer have to rely on expensive plastic-wrapped ready-meals and takeaways. Master your favourite cuisines at home. Then every night is restaurant night!
Make It Plant-Based! Mexican offers 50 recipes for soups, tacos, tortas and sweets (sub avocado with smashed peas, more local and ethical).
Recipes include:
- Vegetable Spicy Soup
- A Brothy Pot of Beans
- Grilled Mushroom Tacos
- Vegan Tres Leches (three milk cake)
Author Andrea Aliseda is a Mexican/American food writer and plant-based recipe developer based in Los Angeles, USA. Her work has appeared in many publications, where she also writes on food culture.
Don’t eat cooked rice after 24 hours (and don’t rub your eyes after chopping chillies!). Read more on food safety for people and pets (onions, garlic and spices are not safe near animal friends).
Bin allium scraps (onion, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives) as acids may harm compost creatures (same with tomato/citrus/rhubarb scraps).
For tinned ingredients, fully remove lids or pop ring-pulls over holes, to avoid wildlife getting trapped.
Comida Casera: 100 Plant-Based Mexican Recipes
Comida Casera is by a Mexican-born chef, who shares over 100 plant-based Mexican recipes. This is a love letter to her food and culture! Written by a professional chef, find everything from comfort food to fine dining recipes.
Enjoy recipes for:
- Almond Queso Fresco
- Green Chilaquiles
- Chilorio Burritos
- Pumpkin Seed Enchiladas
- Mushroom Carnitas Tacos
- Bean and Nopal Tostadas
- Potato & Poblano Stuffed Corn Cakes
- Mole Poblano Enchiladas
- Tres Leches Cake
- Vanilla Flan
- Tres Leches Cake
What a beautiful cookbook! Dora manages to make gorgeous looking food that is delicious and accessible. This book and its food, is as delightful as Dora herself. Pati Jinich
Dora Ramírez is a chef, recipe developer and photographer who was born and raised in Mexico, and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in New York. She is passionate about teaching others the benefit of plant-based lifestyles from her home in Texas, USA.
Club Mexicana (tasty food in Soho & Mayfair, London)
Club Mexicana is a London fast food chain, designed to smash conceptions that vegan food can’t be as tasty. These restaurants offer delicious menus of authentic Latino food, all from nutritious plant foods. You can also book gift vouchers that are valid for one year from purchase.
There are two restaurants, located at Soho and Mayfair. The chain started as a Saturday night supper club in a Hackney café, serving up 3-course taco feasts and lots of tequila! After serving up thousands of tacos at music festivals, it opened its first restaurant in Soho, and now also has one in swanky Mayfair!
Most restaurants are wheelchair-friendly, though one has a few steps, again check site for updates. Dogs are welcome (check site for details).
Founder Meriel is naturally gifted at creating Mexican plant-based food. So she did what many dream of doing – she ditched her advertising job and jumped in the kitchen, to found one of London’s freshest plant-based eateries (they are decorated in bright pink!)
She believes that people prefer eating in real communities, rather than using delivery apps to eat at home. And says that your life and work should be fun! In an interview, she says if you stick to your values, stay a decent person and are resilient enough to come back from knocks, you’ll succeed!
The Evening Standard recommends Club Mexicana, as one of the best 100 cheap eats in London!
The menus include:
- Classic or Loaded Nachos
- BBQ ‘Short Rib’ Tacos
- Baja To-Fish Tacos
- Served with Salsa and Tortillas Chips!
- Buffalo Chick’n Burritos
- Cheezeburger Burritos
- Churros (with chocolate and cinnamon)
- Frozen Margarita & Strawberry Daiquiri
- Beer Cocktails & Mocktails (no alcohol)
- Mezcal (no worm in the bottle, this time)
Mexico is Doing Good Green things!
As well as being mostly plant-based, Mexico (a large country in central American that borders the USA) is also home to a stunning coastline (including the world’s second-largest coral reef), and at the forefront of protecting its country from deforestation, air pollution and lack of clean water.
Home to over 200,000 species of wildlife and plants, there is a real urgency now. Local legislators are upping their game, with moves to ban over-tourism, which is harming marine life (snorkelling alongside whale sharks etc).
And a ban is imminent on performing dolphin shows, something that their friends over the border in the USA could learn from.
