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Mexico: One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless
You Don't Know the Whole Enchilada
Season 12
Episode 9
When you say the word "enchiladas," chances are you're thinking about the saucy, cheesy affairs we've all come to know and love. But in Mexico City, you'll find a vast variety of enchiladas, both in the simplest of markets and nicest of restaurants. At the stately Mexico City restaurants El Cardenal and Roldan 37, Rick explores an interesting array of flavors, then makes show-stopping dishes.
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Rick leads a lesson in red mole making and prepares a herbacious mole verde with fish.
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Meatball torta and traditional versions of albondigas in the old-school Bar Mancera.
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Steak tacos al carbon, bistec tacos a la plancha and stewed tacos de guisado are prepared.
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Los Panchos, a Mexico City institution famous for carnitas, is visited for duck carnitas.
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Rick demonstrates the tricky business of battering and frying chiles for chiles rellenos.
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Rick explores classic Central-style tamales and at home prepares a sweet corn tamale.
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Rick makes classic ceviche and dials it up with coconut and a little booze.
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Rick explores pozole in Mexico and creates seafood pozole verde.
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Rick prepares a tried-and-true sopa de tortilla and a meal-in-a-bowl lamb-pasilla caldo.
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Mexican hot chocolate features churro nibbles showered atop ice cream.
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Traditional chilaquiles get an elegant touch with fried butternut strips.
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Mexico city taco culture is explored. Features: Tacos al pastor and black cod al pastor.