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Recipes to celebrate Cinco de Mayo

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By Noelle Carter

Zetas with garlic and pasilla chiles

20 minutes
Serves 4 to 6
Smoky poblano chiles are a perfect substitute for meat in Mexican lasagna. The mixture of the slightly sweet, mild chiles and fresh corn lend rich depth of flavor. Recipe: Mexican lasagna

Mexican lasagna

1 hour 20 minutes
Serves 8 to 12
Huitlacoche lends a definite earthy richness to the quesadillas, and a robustness similar to truffles to the finished dish. Recipe: Huitlacoche quesadillas

Huitlacoche quesadillas

25 minutes
Serves 4
McKoy, Kirk –– B58944372Z.1 LOS ANGELES, CA, Dec. 21, 2010––Green chile enchiladas. (Kirk McKoy/Los Angeles Times)

Green enchiladas

1 hour
Serves 6
Mushroom and goat cheese quesadilla

Quesadillas stuffed with mushrooms and goat cheese

30 minutes
Serves 4 to 6
Quick and colorful. Recipe: Quesadillas with greens and feta

Quesadillas stuffed with greens and feta

30 minutes
Serves 4 to 6

Jerez-style wedding asado (Asado de boda Jerezano)

3 hours
Serves 32
These chiles rellenos, from one of Los Angeles' most venerable Mexican restaurants, have an avid following all their own. Recipe: El Cholo's chiles rellenos

El Cholo's chiles rellenos

1 hour 20 minutes
Serves 6
Griddled cheese goodness.

Chicharrones de queso with tomatillo-radish salsa and tortillas

1 hour
Serves 6
Jamaica flowers (of the hibiscus family) are typically found in vivid red teas, but these tart dried buds are an unusually delicious filling for enchiladas. Recipe: Hibiscus enchiladas with chipotle sauce

Amaranta Cocina's hibiscus enchiladas with chipotle sauce

1 hour
Serves 6
Recipe: Achiote-marinated fish tacos

Achiote-marinated fish tacos

50 minutes
Serves 4
Duck tacos with chile-cherry compote.

Duck tacos with chile-cherry compote

1 hour
Serves 4
Sweet and a little spicy. Recipe: Blood orange jalapeno margarita

Blood orange jalapeno margarita

10 minutes
Serves 4
Recipe: Guava margarita

Guava margarita

10 minutes
Serves 4
Tequila and grapefruit juice. Any questions? Recipe: Ruby red grapefruit margarita

Ruby red grapefruit margarita

10 minutes
Serves 4

Queso de chiva fundido con pipian verde (Broiled goat cheese with pumpkin seed sauce)

1 hour 30 minutes
Serves 8
110241.FO.0427.AvoGuacamole--Studio shot taken on 4/27/2006 of avocado guacamole. Guacamole in a molcajete with a paste of onion, cilantro, chiles, avocado, tomato and lime juice.

Guacamole

10 minutes
Makes 2 cups
Digital Image taken on Thursday, 9/01/2005, Los Angeles, CA - Photo by Ricardo DeAratanha/Los Angeles Times -- Eggplant, Zucchini, Pepper Enchiladas.

Eggplant-zucchini-pepper enchiladas

1 hour 30 minutes
Serves 4 to 6
Mexican.Tostada-Contramar Tuna Tostadas with Chipotle Mayonnaise

Contramar tuna tostadas with chipotle mayonnaise

45 minutes
Serves 4
074324.FO.1203.food Posole.rojo Posole Estilo Jalisco (Rojo) with condiments bottom left clockwise: Crushed chile, lime, radishes, onion, oregano. Photo by Annie Wells

Pozole Estilo Jalisco (Jalisco-style pozole)

3 hours 20 minutes
Serves 8 to 10
Recipe: Baja baby scallops ceviche

Baja baby scallops ceviche

1 hour
Serves 4

Green corn tamales

2 hours
Makes 12 tamales
Pastrami tacos made with blue-corn tortillas.

Pastrami tacos

40 minutes
Serves 6
Sweet Butter's Shrimp Ceviche.

Sweet Butter's shrimp ceviche

20 minutes
Makes a generous quart of ceviche.

La Golondrina Cafe's flan

2 hours 30 minutes
Serves 12

Noelle Carter

Noelle Carter is the former Los Angeles Times Test Kitchen director. She left in January 2019.

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