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Pozole de Jaiba Sinaloense
Sinaloa's coastal pozole, blue crab and hominy simmered in a toasted-guajillo and chiltepin broth, finished with cilantro and dried shrimp. The Pacific coast's answer to Jalisco's pozole rojo.
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Birria de Pescado Bajacaliforniana
Baja California's fish birria: cabrilla or sierra braised in an adobo of guajillo, ancho, chile California, ginger and clove. Coastal cooking that takes the inland Jalisco template and rewrites it with what comes off the Pacific that morning.
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Caldo de Queso Sonorense
Sonora's weeknight comfort soup, cubed papas and roasted chile Anaheim simmered in a milky tomato broth and finished with queso fresco that softens but holds its shape.
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Vuelve a la Vida Mazatleca
Mazatlan's chilled seafood cocktail of shrimp, octopus, oyster, and crab in a Clamato base sharpened with lime, Maggi, and Worcestershire. Served cold in a tall chabela, the cure for everything that ails you.
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Carne con Chile Colorado Sonorense
Sonora's chile colorado, beef shank slow-simmered in a sauce of toasted California, guajillo, and ancho chiles until the meat falls apart and the red sauce coats the spoon like velvet. Eaten with a flour tortilla sobaquera, never a fork.
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Pitiú Yaqui
The Río Yaqui fish soup of Sonora's Yoreme nation, whole river fish simmered with tomato, onion, cilantro, and crushed chiltepín. Clean, ancestral, and built for the maíz on the table beside it.
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Sopa de Albóndigas Norteña
The northern Mexican meatball soup that anchors weekday tables from Chihuahua to Sonora: beef-and-rice albóndigas seasoned with hierbabuena, simmered in a charred-tomato and chipotle broth with potato, carrot, and calabacita.
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Caldo de Camarón Seco Sinaloense
Sinaloa's smoky shrimp broth, built on toasted camarón seco, charred tomato, and a guajillo-pasilla salsa fried in lard, finished with potato, carrot, and a hard squeeze of lime at the table.
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Caldo de Siete Mares Mazatleco
Mazatlan's seven seas soup. Shrimp, octopus, fish, clams, crab, scallops, and squid in a guajillo-tomato caldo finished with epazote, served with lime, salsa huichol, and saltines on the side.
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Sopa de Fideo Chino Mexicalense
Mexicali's Cantonese-Mexican fideo chino: thin egg noodles in a clear chicken-bone broth with ginger, garlic, soy, and shredded chicken. A weeknight pot from La Chinesca, finished at the table with lime and fried yellow chiles.
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Menudo Blanco Sonorense
Sonora's white menudo. Tripe and pata simmered for hours in a clear hominy broth with garlic and oregano, finished with crushed chiltepin at the table. The Sunday morning ritual of every household in Hermosillo, Caborca, and Ciudad Obregon.
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Sopa China Mexicalense
Mexicali's Cantonese-Mexican soup, a clear ginger-and-soy broth with crisp bok choy, broccoli, and bell pepper, served with lime wedges and blistered chiles guerito at the table.
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Caguamanta de Mantarraya Sonorense
Sonora's manta ray and shrimp stew, with green olives, carrots, capers, and the wild chiltepin chile from the Sierra Madre Occidental. The pure broth, served first in a tin cup, is the bichi.
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Ko'ko'ibaki Yaqui
The Yaqui Eight Pueblos' chile-broth stew from southern Sonora, built on beef bones, charred tomato, and toasted chile pasilla until the broth runs dark. Eaten with sobaqueras the size of a forearm.
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Sopa Wonton Mexicalense
Mexicali's cocina chicalense wonton soup, pork-filled wontons in a clear chicken broth with bok choy and green onion, finished at the table with chile oil de arbol and a hard squeeze of lime.
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Gallina Pinta Sonorense
Sonora's working-pot stew of beef shank, oxtail, pinto beans, and hominy, stained red with Anaheim chile and bitten by chiltepin. The dish is named for a hen it does not contain.
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Comida de Pobres Loretana
Loreto's fisherman's pot from Baja California Sur, where local cabrilla, pinto beans, and white rice cook down into a single rustic broth. Born of scarcity, kept by tradition, and still on the table every Friday in the old neighborhoods.
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Pozole Blanco Sinaloense
Sinaloa's white pozole, pork shoulder and hominy in a clear garlic-onion broth, no chile in the pot. The heat comes at the table, from a pinch of crushed chiltepin and a squeeze of lime.
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Caldillo de Machaca Sonorense
Sonora's desert-ranch broth, built on sun-cured machaca toasted in lard, fresh tomato, fire-roasted chile Anaheim, and potato. Eaten with thin flour tortillas the size of a forearm.
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Caldo de Cuatete Sinaloense
Sinaloa's river-catfish broth, built on charred tomato fried in lard, simmered with chayote, papas, and the bone-in steaks of cuatete, then finished with crushed chiltepín at the table.
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Cocido Sonorense
Sonora's Sunday cocido, beef shank and marrow bones simmered with garbanzos, corn on the cob, calabacitas, and cabbage in a clear caldo, served with chubby flour tortillas and crushed chiltepin at the table.
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Caldo Largo Sinaloense
Mazatlan's dual-stock fishermen's caldo, built on shrimp shells and marlin bones, loaded with manta ray, dried pufferfish, and sea snail, finished with chiltepin and torn cilantro.
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Wakabaki Yoreme
The Yoreme and Yaqui ancestral beef-and-vegetable stew from northern Sinaloa and southern Sonora, slow-cooked in a single pot with garbanzos, corn, calabacitas, and ejotes for novenarios, weddings, and Dia de Muertos.
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