Kua Recipes
Kua Recipes
Kua Recipes
Bite 1:mission hot dog bacon wrap, jalapeno, queso fresco, ketchup mayo, mustard,
green onion
Ketchup - mayo
1 qt ketcup
1 qt Mayo
Mix ingredients
Roasted jalapeno
60 jalapeno blister skin. Rinse off charred skin. Cut lengthwise into julienne
Bite 2:esquite corn stew, garlic aioli, cotija cheese, chile powder, lime wedge
Corn stock
All corn cobs
5 lbs mirepoix ( 50% onion, 25% carrots, 25% celery)
Sachet ( blk peppercorn, parsley stems, celery seed, oregano, dried guajillo chiles, coriander)
4 gal water
Add all ingredients to the pot and bring to a simmer, simmer for 45 minutes. Strain and cool
Corn broth
6 onions chopped
2 heads celery chopped
1 pint garlic chopped
8 ea carrots peeled and chopped
6 ea guajillo chilies
½ cup coriander
½ cup cumin
3 gal corn stock
4 bags frozen corn juiced please thaw first
2 hand bunchesOregano
2 bunches cilantro
Mise en place first. Sweat out onions, celery, garlic, carrots, chilies, coriander, and cumin.
Season as you go. Add corn stock. Bring to a simmer. Add herbs and corn juice, simmer for 20
min. Season, strain, and cool.
Marquesitas batter
12 ea eggs
1 ½ cups granulated sugar
2 cups canola oil
3 cups ap flour
1 tbsp salt
2 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla
Place ingredients in blender blend until smooth. Refrigerate for up to 12hours. Stir before using.
Chorizo recipe
Salsa Verde
Blend everything together until a chunky smooth texture . Should be a loose salsa. Do not over
blend
Salsa rojo
Tostada 1: Tostada de ceviche - nixtamal tostada, avo puree, fish or mushroom ceviche,
cilantro
Avocado puree
10 ea avocado
1 cup canola oil
2 ea garlic clove
2 ea shallot
TT salt
4 ea lime juice
Add all ingredients to blender and emulsifier in oil. Season to taste.
Have all ingredients in two containers. Salmon in one other ingredients in other. Mix to order
when needed
Tostada 2: Tostada de queso de puerco - nixtamal tostada, head cheese, bean puree,
escabeche of vegetables
Head cheese
2 ea pigs head rinsed
3 ea white onion
4 ea carrots peeled
2 bunches celery rinsed
8 oz garlic
8 ea bay leaf
8 ea allspice berries
2 ea Serrano chillies
2 ea lemons
2 bunches thyme
Salt
Adobo spice
Add pigs head to stock pot. Add all other ingredients to the stock pot. Cover ingredients with
cold water. Season water with salt, this will help with seasoning at the end. Bring water up
slowly to a simmer. Once the meat of the head is tender, place on sheet tray and pull off meat.
Cut large pieces into smaller pieces. Season all ingredients with salt and adobo. Roll into
torchons the size on the tostada.
Beans
4 qts white beans soaked
1 ea onion
1 ea carrot peeled
2 ea celery rinsed
Sachet black pepper, coriander, thyme, parsley stems celery seed
Water to cover
Bring water up to simmer slowly until tender. Once tender, keep beans in liquid until cool.
Important, Season liquid with salt while hot and after beans are tender .This will help flavor of
beans develop. Do not get rid of cooking liquid, it will be used to get bean puree to the right
viscosity
Bean puree
8 qts cooked beans and bean liquid reserved on the side
1 qt lard
1 cup garlic
1 cup Serrano
1 cup white onions
½ cup thyme leaves
Simmer garlic, serranos, onion,and thyme in lard. Season as you go.Add beans and cook until
hot. Purée with bean liquid to the right viscosity. Pass through chinois.
Taco 3: Taco al pastor - tortilla, chard pineapple, lardo, salsa verde, al pastor adobo
Charred pineapple
Lardo
360 sliced lardo on thin setting
Salsa verde
This is the salsa verde recipe thickened with avocado
Al pastor adobo
1 ea pineapple
2 ea white onions
4 ea garlic
1 lb tomatoes
1 tsp blk pepper
½ tsp cumin toasted
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 qts water
150 g guajillo chilies
3 cups canola oil
Toast and rehydrate chilies. Purée all ingredients except pineapple with Chile water. Sieve
puree and reserve. Juice pineapple. Purée guajillo chili with oil, sieve into pot. Cook all
ingredients except pineapple juice for 15 minutes. Add pineapple juice and season with salt and
sugar if necessary.
Sikil pak
Flaunts 5: Flautas de camote - crispy rolled tortilla, hibiscus-sweet potato, salsa verde, crema
2 lb hibiscus flowers
10 qts water
4 cups sugar
10 lb sweet potatoes
1 lb butter
6 ea orange juice and zest
2 ea egg optional
1 cup brown sugar
24 tsp salt
Rinse hibiscus flowers to get rid of dirt and sand. Soak hibiscus flowers over night in sugar
water. Stab sweet potatoes with fork to release moisture while cooking. Roast potatoes in oven
at 350f until tender. In mixer add cooked sweet potatoes (no skin),butter and salt. Paddle until
smooth, add brown sugar, eggs, salt, orange juice, orange zest, and hibiscus flower. Final
seasoning.
Salsa verde
Same salsa verde that is thickened with avocado
Crema
Shrimp 6: Shrimp diablo - poached shrimp, spicy mexican cocktail, tequila float
Mexican cocktail
Tequila float
Cook out alcohol in tequila with out reducing, poach eggs on hot tequila with yolks runny and
whites set. Sweat out garlic and shallot, no color. Add ingredients to blender and make an
emulsion. Season with salt. For service add to foamer with 2 chargers.
Shrimp
400 ea
TT salt and pepper
Season shrimp with salt and pepper. Roast in oven at 350 f
Plate 1: Pescado a la talla - mikes day to remember from his trip to puerto villarta.
Marinated Cage grilled fish w onion, pablano, red pepper, and yellow pepper.
Marinade
2 cups serranos
2 cups pablano
2 red bells
1 cup garlic
2 bunches cilantro
1 qt brown sugar
1 cup salt
1 pint maggi
3 Tbsp ground blk pepper
2 Tbsp ground coriander
2 Tbsp ground cumin
8 ea lime juice
Blend ingredients
Garnish
Lime squeezer
Mix of parsley, brunoise shallot, brunoise radish
Salsa verde
Layers on fish
Plate 2: Pollo con mole - stuffed chicken thigh, mole rojo, plantain chochoyote
Prepare ingredients according to recipie. Run through grinder. Chill grind. Make mousse in
robocall coupe.
Mole rojo
Prepare ingredients according to recipie. Purée chilies into paste usingjust enough water to to
make a paste. Purée fruit, nut, veg, and spice. Heat ½ lard and fry chili, fruit, nut, and veg puree
until it becomes thick and shiny. Add tomato puree and cook for 5 min. Add masa and stock and
simmer for 1 hour. Season as you go. Finish with puree in vita mix and strained. Season with
salt and sugar.
Plantain chochoyote
Mix all ingredients until uniform dough.for chochoyote into 1 oz dumplings (test size first).
Blanch in salted water. Deep fry for service.
Recipe will yield around 160 portions
Dessert 1: Taco de chocolate - chocolate taco, blackberry compote, fresh blackberries,
chocolate hazelnut puree, Nutella powder, lemon zest
Blackberry compote
5 lbs blackberries
1 ¼ cups sugar
2 ea lemon juice and zest
1 pinch salt
Add ingredients to the pot. Simmer for 20 min cool. Purée and strain
Boil hazelnuts until they fall apart. Then puree hot add milk chocolate and hot milk. Season with
salt. Viscosity when room temp should be a puree that stands up on itself or forms a nice dot.
Nutella powder
Nutella
Tapioca mutidextrum
TT salt
Dessert 2: Mexican sundae - hibiscus tostada, dream ice cream, cherries, nuts, chocolate
sauce
Chocolate sauce
Candied nuts
4 qts nuts
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup sugar
1 tbsp salt
Add nuts to the bowl. Add just enough water to the bowl to moisten the nut, this will help the dry
ingredient stick to the nuts. Add the rest on the dry ingredients. Bake at 325 f for 5 minutes
rotate, repeat, until crispy and toasty. Robo coupe nuts to a bruniose size. Shake in china cap to
keep a consistent size