This weekend, traditional cooks from the community of El Llanito, in the municipality of Dolores Hidalgo, once again showed off the region’s gastronomic richness at the 10th Hña Hñu Culinary Showcase.
The main esplanade of the Dolores community was filled with flavor and tradition with the participation of the 15 cooks who each year put on this show with the aim of exalting the dishes of the Otomi people.
With dishes such as caldo de ratita magueyera, capo, atole de mezquite, xoconostles, quelites and traditional ceremonial tortillas, locals and visitors delighted in the seasoning of El Llanito, a community that is already a benchmark in terms of traditional food.
The show, which took place on July 13 and 14, had 9 food stands attended by the 15 traditional cooks of the community. The event was enlivened by musical groups, bands and mariachis from the region, including ‘Banda Cañaveral’, ‘Flores del Marfil’ and the wind band ‘Matías Juárez’ from the House of Culture of Dolores Hidalgo.
During the event, the cooks performed the Otomí ceremony of ‘Los 4 Rumbos’, with which they ask for permission and give thanks for being able to hold the meeting through a ritual with flowers, incense and songs.
As every year, the ceremonial tortilla was an important part of the event, even featuring a workshop to learn how to make them, taught by Antonio García Moncada. “The ceremonial tortilla is something that unites us as a community, and it is also a delicacy and a pleasure to enjoy it,” said Gloria Vázquez, representative of the traditional cooks of El Llanito.
Among the traditional dishes that could be enjoyed were: crazy broth, offering broth, xoconostles and stuffed chiles, victuals, chickpea atoles, mesquite, piloncillo and honey water; tamales of borrachita and beans, rat and rabbit broth, turkey barbecue, grasshoppers, quelites, nopales, tuna water, borrachita and nopal. In addition to sweet dishes such as oven-baked gorditas, buñuelos, palanquetas, ponteduro and pinole.
Source: periodicocorreo
