The Mexican Focus Blog

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and what better way to start it than with a tasty Breakfast dish? Here at Mexican Focus we search far and wide for the tastiest Mexican dishes.

In traditional Mexico the majority of people go for Breakfast Tacos, which are relatively soft tortilla tacos that are filled up with several different stews.

Another option we can recommend is that you try our Mexican Breakfast Burritos recipe - this dish stuffed with cheese, sausage and eggs will absolutely melt in your mouth!!

Certainly if stuck for ideas you can always pull out a tortilla, add in some refried beans and call it your breakfast ( and many do ). However why not add a little spice to life and go for some variety!

The origins of authentic Mexican food can be derived from the Mayan Indians. The Mayan Indians traditionally were roaming hunter-gatherers around the Yucatan regions in Southeast Mexico.

They survived back then on wildgame like deer, rabbit, fish, turkey as well as beans, corn and tropical fruit. Corn tortillas spread with bean paste was also a common food in these times.

The Aztec Empire thrived during the mid 1300’s and chili peppers and salt gained popularity in cooking. Also the wild duck and turkey were now domesticated.

The biggest influence on Mexican cuisine that makes it the food that it is today came about after the conquest of Mexico in 1521 by Spain. They introduced sheep, cows and pigs as well as dairy products like cheese. Many herbs including garlic, coriander and an abundance of wheat and spices were also becoming more common place.

This period also saw the incorporation of other cuisines and ingredients from other colonizing countries including French, Carribbean, Portugese, South American and West African.

The tasty cuisines from all these countries became the melting pot of culinary specialties that we now know as Mexican Food. The tastes of Mexican are constantly changing even today due to outside influences and the mix of the old an the new.