4 porciones
INGREDIENTES
2 tazas de frijoles cocidos
1 pechuga de pollo desmenuzada
4 jitomates
¼ de cebolla
2 dientes de ajo
250 g de requesón
1 chile poblano
½ taza de cebolla fileteada
1 limón
1 taza de agua
16 tortillas
Aceite de oliva
PREPARACIÓN
Si las tortillas están frías podemos calentarlas en el horno de microondas: meterlas envueltas en un trapo húmedo dentro de una bolsa de plástico durante 40 segundos. En una sartén con aceite de oliva, saltear la cebolla y el ajo picado, agregar el jitomate cortado en cubos. Cuando esté perfectamente sazonado el jitomate, licuar la mitad con los frijoles y sazonar a fuego lento. La otra mitad del jitomate mezclarlo con el pollo y sazonar. Asar el chile poblano, sudarlo, limpiarlo de piel y semillas y finalmente cortar en rajas. Remojar la cebolla fileteada en agua con limón para desflemarla. Remojar las tortillas en los frijoles ya fritos, rellenarlas con pollo, servir y poner un poco más de pollo encima y adornar con requesón, rajas y cebollitas.
Semana Santa is Mexico’s second most important holiday season of the year, behind only Christmas, and runs from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. In addition to attending Mass on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, many Mexicans will also take advantage of the holiday to go on vacation. If you’re planning to visit Mexico during Semana Santa, make sure you checked on availability in advance.
HistorySemana Santa, or Holy Week, celebrates the Christian holiday of Easter. Mexico is nearly 90 percent Catholic, so this religious holiday takes on a special meaning that the entire community shares and participates in.
WhereAll of Mexico celebrates Semana Santa, but certain cities and villages are better known for celebrating the holiday, and often provide reenactments of the events leading up to Christ’s crucifixion on the cross. The best known cities are Ixtapalapa (in Mexico City), Pátzcuaro, San Cristobal de las Casas (Chiapas), and Taxco. Smaller and silent torch lit processions, Processión del Silencio, also take place in Aguascalientes and San Luis Potosí.
Events
Each community celebrates the holiday with its own regional flavor; however, popular with the whole country is the breaking of cascarones, colored egg shells filled with confetti, over friends and family. Churches will be filled with those attending Mass on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, and families will take this opportunity to be together.
The most moving event of Semana Santa is the reenactment of the Passion of Christ, or the passion play. The event’s in the mentioned cities are sponsored by religious or community groups, and can include large processions of penitents, sometimes on their knees, a portrayal of the last supper and the crucifixion itself.
In many cities, important religious images from the church will be displayed, traditional altars are decorated at home and in the streets, and flower decorations and palm crosses will be found everywhere. The central colonial cities seem to celebrate this holiday with the most reverence and tradition, and if you wish to see the beauty of traditional Mexico, Semana Santa would be well worth seeing for yourself.