The head cheese ham tostada: A mexican appetizer that remind us our family costumes

You are relaxed, enjoying a mexican appetizer and, quickly, all those unforgettable memories with your family come to your mind.

Sitting in your place at the dining room, enjoying your meal and, the most important, spending that moment with your beloved ones to talk, know each other better or, just, talk about an event that happened to us.

The family reunions are all a custom, sometimes we meet to celebrate an important event in the family: Birthday celebration, an important achievement, a birth, etc. And some other times just because we want to meet again since we hadn’t seen each other for a long time.

And not to mention, meet to celebrate an important event of our country, like “El Grito”: Those who like crowds, go to some places to celebrate it. But others, that like to stay at home, they organize a family reunion, enjoy some snacks, appetizers, some delicious tostadas, a pozole and watch “El Grito” that the president does on T.V.

We know that, although we are far away, sooner or later, we are going to see again our beloved ones, be able to go to a traditional party in the place we were born, or go to a family reunion where you will enjoy a delicious meal; joined by a good mariachi that makes your family sing and dance.

For those moments with the family or friends, nothing like enjoying that mexican appetizer that can be prepared in a lot of different ways: The tostadas.

According to an article of El Heraldo Mexico, first the tostadas were served only, with beans and chillis, but with the arrival of the Spanich, more food began to be added on top; we are thankful for that because some great combinations were created.

And how not to remember those times that we used to go with our family to those mexican dinners, enjoy a homemade delicious loin tostada, cueritos or simple with only refried beans. There are some people that used to make their own tostadas heating the tortillas in a skillet until they harden and, to give more consistency, before the skillet they get them in to the microwave for 3 minutes.

The tostadas are so delicious that sometimes we underestimate them because they are small and believe we can eat a lot of them, but sometimes, with 2 or 3 are enough.

Some examples:

• The ceviche tostadas: Perfect in the period of Lent and hot weather.
• The cuerito tostadas: Those sometimes, we eat in “El Grito”.
• The head cheese tostada: Perfect for family reunions and to watch a sports event.

This time, we will focus in the head cheese tostada.

But, why are they so recommended? They don’t have ingredients hard to find and they are easy, delicious and quick to prepare.

 Let’s see each point.

Head cheese recommended?

The Capistrano’s head cheese is prepared with fleshy parts and pig’s trunk, it has 18% of protein and slice with meat bite and elasticated; besides of spice mix flavors such as aliacea (garlic and onion).

What ingredients have the head cheese tostada?

Requires ½ of Capistrano’s head cheese in coarse slices, medium onion in half moon, 1 tomato, 2 sour lemons, finely chopped coriander leaves, sliced cuaresmeño chillies, salt, pepper, oregano and, obvious, the tostadas.

As we told you: There aren’t ingredients hard to find.

How are they prepared?

This is also easy: You must cut the head cheese in squares and placed them in a container. Then, you have to add the onion, the cuaresmeño chillies and the coriander leaves, then cut the tomatoes in small segments and place them in the container, finally you have to squeez the lemons and add the juice to mix and season.

Before serving it, you have to cover the container with self-adhesive plastic and cool it one hour maximum and there you go ! Enjoy tostadas.

This doesn’t come as part of the ingredients, but also you can add some avocado’s small pieces over, they will be delicious.

Conclusion

Making some head cheese tostadas doesn’t require a lot of time and there are an excellent alternative as a snack to pamper your guests of your reunion and remember events of our beautiful Mexico.

Capistrano accompanies you to make you feel closer to home.