Chef Lupita
Sopa de Lima Yucateca
Yucatán's signature soup: turkey broth scented with charred onion, allspice, and chile xkatik, finished with the juice of lima agria and topped with crisp fried tortilla strips.
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Chef Lupita
Sopa de Chaya Yucateca
Yucatan's everyday green soup, built on chaya leaves boiled clean of their bite, then blended into a chicken broth thickened with toasted pepita and finished with manteca, lima agria, and habanero at the table.
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Sopa de Coditos con Frijol Negro
A Yucatecan weekday soup of elbow pasta toasted in lard and simmered in epazote-scented black bean broth, finished with crumbled queso sopero, a spoon of crema, and a squeeze of lima agria.
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Caldo de Pescado Yucateco
Yucatán's bright, citrus-driven fish soup, built on a fast fish broth, charred tomato, recado rojo bloomed in lard, and the perfume of a whole unbroken habanero floating in the pot.
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Crema de Chaya Yucateca
Yucatán's elegant white-tablecloth soup, boiled chaya leaves blended with sweated onion, butter, and evaporated milk, finished with buttered croutons. The soup that opens weddings and feast days in Mérida.
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Caldo de Mariscos Campechano
Campeche's chunky seafood chowder from the Gulf coast, built on toasted shrimp shells, charred tomato, recado rojo, and epazote, served family-style from a clay cazuela with lima agria and warm tortillas.
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Frijol con Puerco
Yucatan's mandatory Monday dish. Black beans and pork shoulder slow-simmered with epazote and a whole habanero, served over white rice with chiltomate, salpicon of radish and cilantro, naranja agria, and avocado.
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Puchero Yucateco de Tres Carnes
Yucatán's Sunday puchero of three meats, root vegetables, and ripe plantain, perfumed with saffron, hierbabuena, and canela. The slow Sunday pot of Mérida courtyard kitchens, finished at the table with salpicón and naranja agria.
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Relleno Negro Yucateco
Yucatán's black turkey stew built on chiles burned to charcoal, finished with a pork-and-egg but wrapped in banana leaf. The dish that owns weddings, funerals, and the most serious tables in Mérida.
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Relleno Blanco Yucateco
Yucatán's elegant white twin to relleno negro: turkey simmered with epazote and habanero, a pork meatball studded with almonds, raisins, olives, and capers, finished with the masa-thickened k'ool that gives this stew its name.
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Chocolomo de Tizimín
Tizimín's celebration stew from the cattle country of eastern Yucatán, beef loin and offal simmered in a broth of hierbabuena, recado rojo, and naranja agria, finished at the table with lima agria and habanero.
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Lomitos de Valladolid
Valladolid's pride from the eastern highlands of Yucatán: diced pork loin slow-simmered in charred tomato, garlic, and naranja agria, finished with a heavy scatter of chopped hard-boiled egg the way the cocineras of the mercado have served it for generations.
Chef Lupita
Potaje de Lentejas Yucateco
Yucatán's Wednesday lentil stew, built on pork ribs, longaniza, achiote-stained broth, and the sweet jolt of fried black plantain. A peninsula dish that argues sweet and savory belong in the same bowl.
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Tzanchak (Yucatecan Waiting Stew)
The Hanal Pixan waiting stew of the Yucatan Peninsula: beef shank simmered with corn, chayote, calabaza, and hierbabuena while the men tend the underground pib. Served with a bright salpicon of radish, red onion, and naranja agria.
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Escabeche Oriental de Valladolid
Valladolid's vinegar-braised turkey or chicken, rubbed with recado de bistec and simmered with charred xkatik chiles, sweet red onion, and the perfume of a whole habanero. The festival dish of eastern Yucatán.
Chef Lupita
Salpimentado de Res Yucateco
Yucatán's Sunday beef stew, built on toasted pimienta gorda, charred tomatoes, naranja agria, and a slow-simmered pot of beef chuck and shank. The kind of olla that perfumes a Mérida courtyard all morning.
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