Playa Del Carmen Destination Guide
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Salsa - Playa Del Carmen
Since so much Mexican food is simple, and endlessly repeated in restaurant after restaurant, one way to tell the places apart - and a vital guide to the quality of the establishment - is by their salsa . You'll always get at least one bowl or bottle per table, and sometimes as many as four to choose from. A couple of these will be proprietary brands (Tabasco-like, usually with great, exotic labels and invariably muy picante) but there should always be at least one home-made concoction. Increasingly this is raw , California-style salsa: tomato, onion, chile and cilantro (coriander leaves) finely chopped together. More common, though, are the traditional cooked salsas, either green or red, and almost always relatively mild (though start eating with caution). The recipes are - of course - closely guarded secrets, but again the basic ingredients are tomato (the green Mexican tomato in green versions), onion and one or more of the hundreds of varieties of chile.
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