Image from www.lowgicooking.comAsk Zarela The recipe for the corn, jicama, avocado salad is not in the cookbook Matt purchased for me. Is the recipe available anywhere? It was incredible. Answer: It is in my first book Food from my Heart... (Continue reading)
The street version does not include the serrano chiles so I will retest this and add a new photo in the near future. At Zarela , we served this as a summer soup but it can also be a salad.... (Continue reading)
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ENSALADA DE JICAMA Y BERROS (Jicama-Watercress Salad) Salads were not a big thing in Mexican meals during my Guadalajara days. Around the late seventies there seemed to be an upsurge of interest, just when I was starting my catering business... (Continue reading)
Jicama is the tuber of a plant indigenous to Mexico and Central America. The botanical name, Pachyrhizus erosus, is derived from the Greek pachys -- thick and coarse, as in "pachyderm!" It has a crisp texture, somewhere between an apple... (Continue reading)