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Mexican Chocolate, Mole Pastes, local Handmade Cooking Utensils, and other Regional Food Products.
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Oaxacan Food Products
Mexican Chocolate
One of Mexico's most important gifts to the world, with the biggest impact, is the cacao bean to make chocolate. According to legend the God of Light, Quetzalcoatl, brought cacao down to the Toltecan people and taught them how to cultivate it. It was a special offering and considered "Food of the Gods". It has retained its place among the most cherished foods in Mexico. According to tradition Chocolate is to be made only by the hands of a woman, whipped into a foamy mixture, and always served with Pan de Muertos.
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box (bulk) | 40 lb | $3.65/lb | $146.00 |
| box (w. 40 labeled 1 lb bags) | 40 lb | $4.50/lb | $180.00 | |
Ingredients: cacao, almonds, sugar, cinnamon. |
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Mole
Going through the markets in Oaxaca, you will pass piles of seasoning pastes in various earthy colors and flavors. Instead of having to spend days in your kitchen, you can reconstitute Mole Paste and make this ceremonial dish in less than an hour. Serve a generous portion of chicken, turkey, pork or a combination of the three with plenty of this sauce. Although some stalls sell many different kinds of pastes, the most popular are Mole Negro, Mole Coloradito and Mole Rojo.
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bucket | 44 lb | $5.00/lb | $220.00 |
| box | 12 jars(8 oz)/box | $10.56/lb | $63.35 | |
Ingredients: chilly pepper (chilhuacle negro, guajillo, pasilla, mulato, meco), chocolate, cacao, sugar, onion, garlic, almonds, sesame seeds, raisins, cinnamon, prunes, plantain, sunflower oil, lard, salt, herbs, spices. |
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| Mole Coloradito paste | ||||
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bucket | 44 lb | $5.00/lb | $220.00 |
| box | 12 jars(8 oz)/box | $10.56/lb | $63.35 |
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Ingredients: red ancho chiles, guajillo chiles, cacao, sugar, sesame seeds, cinnamon, plantain, garlic, almonds, peanuts, pecans, raisins, sunflower oil, lard, herbs, spices. |
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| Mole Rojo Paste | ||||
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bucket | 44 lb | $5.00/lb | $220.00 |
| box | 12 jars(8 oz)/box | $10.56/lb | $63.35 |
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Ingredients: chicostle chiles, guajillo chiles, mora chiles, cacao, sugar, cinnamon, garlic, almonds, raisins, sunflower oil, lard, salt, herbs, spices. |
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Chintestle
In Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec village cocineras grind out of chile pasilla oaxaqueño a paste called Chintestle. The chiles are smoked in nearby villages, only a five hour burro ride away! People used to take this paste with them to spread on their tortillas, making a nutritious and instant meal. Now it is mainly used as a seasoning for soups and salsas.
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bucket | 44 lb | $11.36/lb | $500.00 |
| box | 12 jars(6 oz)/box | $17.78/lb | $80.00 |
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Ingredients: pasilla oaxaqueño chiles, salt, garlic. |
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Jalapeño Jelly
Jalapeño Jelly is a mixture of fresh ranch raised chile jalapenos and bell peppers grown in the Oaxacan sunshine. They are simmered in vinegar and sugar to make a rich hot and sweet combination. This can be layered on bread, crackers or celery that is spread with farm or goats cheese, or used in dressings, or marinades. Comes in red or green varieties.
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box | 12 jars(8 oz)/box | $7.50/lb | $45.00 |
Ingredients: jalapeños chiles, bell peppers, sugar, vinager, pectin. |
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Sea Salt
Salinas de Marquez is a salt flat on the edge of Salina Cruz in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in southern Oaxaca. It is here that the sea water flows into shallow pools once a year for shrimp and oysters to be grown and harvested by the townspeople. As the north winds blow off the Sierra Madres in January, the evaporation process starts and continues for several months. Once the water has evaporated the blinding white salt is revealed, all by natural progression. The women in the collective then go to hand harvest the salt, while the men do the tasks of grinding it, filling sacks and carrying them to the storage sheds. It is the birthright of those from the village to be able to work in the collective and make their living off the natural salt of their lands.This salt has changed my cooking forever, I love the flavor and texture of it...
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bucket | 44 lb | $1.14/lb | $50.00 |
| box (w. 50 labeled 1 lb bags) | 50 lb | $2.30/lb | $115.00 |
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Ingredients: salt. |
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Molinillos
Molinillos are used to create the froth on hot chocolate. You hold them in your palms as if in prayer and twirl them in the near boiling liquid to create the froth which is considered the most important part of the drink. Our molinillos are made of pine by a family in the Sierra Juarez mountains. The men make them on lathes and the women engrave them.
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box | 25 pcs. | $3.00/each | $75.00 |
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