Hacienda Cuilapam
After touring Monte Albán and El Convento de Santiago Apóstol, we enjoyed a delicious lunch at this restaurant featuring a buffet of many traditional Oaxacan dishes, including lots of mole.
The dining tables surrounded this lush courtyard.
A woman was making fresh tortillas in the adjacent room.
Buena idea: repurposed bottle vases.
The table of veggies and salsas.
Right front = cactus
Muchas salsas!
Espinaca estrato (layered spinach)
This was one of my favorite dishes: baked casserole of layered spinach with garlic. I wish I knew how they made it.
Primero plato
Clockwise starting in the back: pepinos crudos (raw cucumber), betabel encurtido (pickled beets), cacto encurtido (pickled cactus), rabanito (radish), un typo de cerdo (stewed pork), calabacin con quesillo (zucchini and Oaxacan cheese), pollo con salsa rojo (one of my favs), and a fried mashed potato ball (good with spicy salsa). The bowl in the back had chickpeas and some chicken in a flavorful chicken based-red broth.
A second plate was necessary for sampling the moles and some of the stews.
MOLE!
Oaxaca is famous for being land of the 7 moles: Mole Poblano (red, most popular); Mole Verde (green from pumpkin seeds, cilantro, tomatillos, jalapeños), Mole Negro (chocolate and spices, thickened with bread); Mole Chichilo (beef stock, avocado leaves, chilhuacle or guajillo chiles, pasilla chiles, no chocolate); Mole Amarillo (no chocolate, thickened with masa harina); Mole Coloradito (plantains are used); Mole Manchamantel (pineapple, tomatoes, chorizo).
I tried Mole Verde, Mole Negro, Mole Poblano, and the fourth was possibly Mole Coloradito. Sadly, no labels for anything.
Of the few I tried, I liked Mole Poblano and Mole Negro best due to their deep, complex flavors.
One of my favorite soups of the day, pollo con tomate verde (chicken with tomatillos)—loaded with flavor and not overly spicy.
There were quite a few postres (desserts). I tried this sponge cake soaked in a type of brown sugar syrup and the fresh pineapple and papaya slices. The cake was pleasantly moist with a caramel taste.
Translation: Did you forget something?
olvidar = to forget
algo=something
I need this sign hanging above my door at home!
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