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Mexican Food Made Simple

Thomasina Miers

If you love having friends and family round for dinner or simply rustling up fresh, fast food, Mexican cooking is fun, fantastic and full of flavour. One of its brightest stars, Wahaca chef and food writer Thomasina Miers shares the recipes she has gathered since she first fell in love with the country aged 18, reinventing the classics with accessible ingredients to demonstrate how exciting and delicious traditional Mexican food can be.

Whether you're looking for street snacks full of punch, rich, hearty stews, or sensational, spicy wraps, Thomasina's Mexican Food Made Simple is bursting with recipes you'll want to eat and share: soft corn tacos and tostados; little cheesy things (quesadillas); a great Mexican chille con carne; Grilled Seabass or succulent Lamb Chops with homemade salsas and tortilla chips; and to finish churros with chocolate sauce.

The book features vibrant food photography throughout, and step-by-step guides to folding the perfect burrito, eating a taco (no knives and forks allowed), making a sizzling table salsa, and much more. And with Thomasina's guide to the world's hottest chillies, ingenious cheats, and helpful menu planner, Mexican Food Made Simple has everything you need to put together a fantastic Mexican feast at home.

  • Classification : Cookery, Food & Drink
  • Pub Date : APR 1, 2010
  • Imprint : Hodder and Stoughton
  • Page Extent : 224
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9780340994979
  • Price : INR 2,250
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Thomasina Miers

Thomasina Miers was winner of BBC MasterChef in 2005. She is a cook and food writer whose work has ranged from cheese-making and running market stalls in Ireland, cheffing with Skye Gyngell at Petersham Nurseries to co-founding the restaurant group Wahaca, winner of numerous awards from OFM's cheap eats to the SRA's most sustainable restaurant group three years running. Her previous books include Soup Kitchen, Cook, Wild Gourmets, Mexican Food Made Simple, Wahaca and Chilli Notes. She has presented various cookery TV programmes and writes a regular column, 'weekend cook', in the Guardian magazine. Faber & Faber published Home Cook in 2017; it was a Guardian Book of the Year. She has three children and lives in London.

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