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Nayarit Mango Chamoy Salad
Nayarit's Pacific fruit-stand salad, cold ripe mango cut thick, dressed with chamoy, lime, salt, and chile-lime powder until sweet, sour, salty, and sharp.
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Ensalada de Col Cremosa Nayarita
Nayarit's cabbage slaw is the cold, creamy side that belongs beside fried Pacific fish, birria, and tostadas, with carrot, pineapple, lime, and crema doing quiet work.
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Jícama con Limón y Chile Piquín
Jalisco's fruit-cart botana: cold jicama batons dressed with Mexican lime, sal de grano, and chile piquín, the cheap, crisp snack that belongs to markets, plazas, and picnic tables.
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Highland Nopal Salad
Jalisco and Michoacan highland nopales, cooked until tender, rinsed clean, and folded with tomato, white onion, cilantro, Mexican oregano, lime, and crumbled Cotija cheese.
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Pátzcuaro Watercress Salad (Ensalada de Berros)
Michoacán's Pátzcuaro lake-region salad of peppery berros, white onion, tomato, serrano, lime, and local avocado, the clean green plate that cuts through carnitas and grilled freshwater fish.
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Guadalajara Fruit & Cream Cup (Bionico Tapatio)
Jalisco's market fruit cup from Guadalajara, cold chopped fruit under sweet crema, granola, coconut and raisins, the quick meal that proved a city can invent tradition in a plastic cup.
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Gazpacho Moreliano (Gaspacho de Morelia)
Michoacan's Morelia fruit cup is diced mango, pineapple, and jicama sharpened with citrus, then finished with Cotija, chile piquin, and salsa botanera.
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Ensalada de Garbanzos con Cueritos
Guadalajara's market botana of tender garbanzos, vinegar-cured cueritos, cucumber, white onion, oregano, lime, and chile de arbol piled high on a crisp corn tostada.
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Ensalada de Papa Jalisciense
Jalisco's cold fiesta potato salad, folded with crema, mayonnaise, peas, carrot, and chile jalapeno en escabeche, the bowl that sits beside barbacoa and disappears before the tortillas run out.
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Pulpo Enamorado Acapulqueño
Guerrero's Acapulco seafood salad, tender octopus folded into chile-costeño mayonnaise with jitomate, white onion, serrano, and cilantro, piled cold onto corn tostadas for the table.
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Ensalada de Aguacate con Cotija
Michoacán's avocado country meets Cotija's sharp mountain cheese in a fast table salad dressed with lime, white onion, serrano, and Mexican oregano.
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Jalisco Jicama Fruit Salad (Pico de Gallo Tapatio)
Guadalajara's mercado pico de gallo is fruit, not tomato salsa: jicama, orange, cucumber, and coconut sharpened with lime, salt, and ground chile de arbol.
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Jalisco Macaroni Salad (Ensalada de Coditos)
Guadalajara's party-table coditos, cold elbow macaroni bound with crema and mayonnaise, folded with ham, carrot, corn, and sharpened by chile jalapeño en escabeche.
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