Veracruzano
Huachinango: red snapper, olive-tomato sauce.
Huachinango a la Veracruzana
Huachinango a la Veracruzana is a red snapper dish cooked with tomatoes, olives, and capers, reflecting Veracruz's Spanish-Caribbean culinary fusion.
View page →Veracruz, along Mexico's Gulf coast, is a seafood cuisine that blends indigenous, Spanish, and Afro-Caribbean influences from centuries as the country's main port. Its emblem is huachinango a la veracruzana — whole red snapper baked in a sauce of tomatoes, onions, garlic, green olives, capers, and pickled chiles, a clear legacy of Spanish cooking. Arroz a la tumbada is the local one-pot rice cooked with mixed seafood, tomato, and the herb epazote. Other staples are seafood cocktails, fried fish, and small turnovers; the herb epazote and the local long green chile season much of the food. The region grows two ingredients that traveled the world: vanilla, native to Papantla, and the coffee of Coatepec — and a strong milky coffee, café lechero, is the everyday drink.
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