What is the best dessert I can serve with Mexican food?

I have guests over next Friday and I will serve gourmet tacos and fajitas.

What type of dessert would fit best with this? If you can give me any suggestions and tips as well on serving ideas, drinks, etc., they are all welcome, muchas gracias!!What is the best dessert I can serve with Mexican food?
FLAN (MEXICAN CUSTARD)

1 can evaporated milk

1 can condensed milk

1 tbsp. vanilla

4 eggs, at room temperature

1/4 c. sugar



Melt sugar in a skillet until light brown, pour into a pie pan (glass). Blend milks, eggs and vanilla (don't over blend), pour into pie pan. Put glass pie dish into a large baking pan. Pour water into baking pan so that dish sits in water while cooking. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour, cool and refrigerate. Caramel on bottom will be runny.



or



MEXICAN FRIED ICE CREAM

3 c. vanilla or chocolate ice cream

2 beaten eggs

1/2 tsp. vanilla

4 1/2 c. sweetened corn flakes or (rice crisp cereal, crushed)

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

Cooking oil for deep fat frying

Ice cream topping



Place six scoops about 1/2 cup each of ice cream in a small pan (freeze for 1 hour). Combine eggs, vanilla in a small mixing bowl. In pie plate combine cereal and cinnamon.

Dip each frozen ice cream ball in egg mixture. Then in cereal mixture. Return coated ice cream balls to pan and freeze (1 hour) or until firm. Reserve remaining cereal mixture. Cover and chill remaining egg mixture. Remove coated ice cream ball from freezer. Dip ball in remaining egg and cereal mixture, return to pan. Cover and freeze for several hours.



Fry frozen ice cream balls (1 or 2 at a time) in deep hot oil at 350 degrees in deep frying pan or deep fryer, 15 seconds or until brown (golden brown). Drain a few seconds, return ice cream balls to freezer while frying remaining ones. Serve immediately with ice cream topping.



(Serves 6 persons.)



Hope this helps..What is the best dessert I can serve with Mexican food?
Flan...A custard like pudding with a caramel sauce dripped over it.
fried ice creamWhat is the best dessert I can serve with Mexican food?
* Flan, if you like flan. (I happen to love it)



* Anything involving mangos; or



* "Pastel Tres Leches" (a vanilla cake that in some recipes involves rum, and in other recipes does not) with fresh strawberries or raspberries; or



* Crepes with "dulce de leche" or "cajeta" (a caramel sauce) and vanilla ice cream; or



* Vanilla or coconut ice cream drizzled with Kahlua, and/or vanilla ice cream with those super-sweet sugary praline-like Mexican candies with the walnuts broken up in pieces on top of the ice cream; or



* Chocolate mousse; or



* Cinnamon cookies
Fried ice cream would be good, but it might be difficult to make at home. Flan is nice too, but if you want something authentic but a little different from the usual flan and fried ice cream, check out the Mexican dessert recipes on gourmetsleuth.com. They have everything there from Mexican cookies to brownies to cakes and a few other things you probably never heard of before.What is the best dessert I can serve with Mexican food?
It depends....am I invited?hmmmmm??????



j/k, i'd have to agree w/ bullethead_5150 on apple empanadas, my fav. .....or flan if you wanna stick w/ tradition
fried ice cream :)
Flan
Flan, biscochos, fried ice cream, sorbet. Any of these will do well. I'd serve cafe con leche as well.
Serve flan and horchata, or Dulce de leche and fried ice cream. Yummy!!
Flan.
Well, authentic Mexican desserts would be flan (a custard), tres leches cake (a "wet" cake), or sopaipillas (fried dough eaten with honey). I think it would be neat to carry the Mexican theme to dessert as well. As far as drinks, what's more mexican than margaritas? Recipes can be found on the internet or even at foodnetwork.com. Good luck!
That sounds great... Nice menu. What about flan or sopapillas?



Guacamole with little pieces of fresh tomatoe would be a nice condiment
Apple Empanadas.
Of course the traditional is flan, but it is very rich - I would go with a nice fruit salad, or sorbet....... Margaritas for sure!
flan, a sweet flavored empanada, arroz con leche, dulce de leche ice cream,
i love sopapillas. they are delicious!!! you serve them with honey, most people outside of new mexico/arizona/texas havent heard of them
Fried ice cream is served in most of the decent Mexican joints around here.



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oh and serve mojitos, too.
fried ice cream
sorbet, margarita's ( i know bad spelling) strawberry daiquiris, minus the rum if you so wish.
Churros or sopapillas.
Fried Ice Cream
a very simple and authentic dessert:

slice up some mangos, pineapple, papaya etc.

sprinke with a little chili powder and a squeeze of lime.

this is usually served with jicima and/or cucumber, it's a popular street food, but using just some nice juicy fruit can make a refreshing dessert.
desserts: flan, pan dulce (sweetbread), churros



drinks: agua de horchata, jaimaica, tamarindo,
Churros
Fried Ice Cream or Empanadas are good. So are cookies. Apple Turnovers are also good with Mexican Food.
I've lived in Mexico for over twenty years, never heard of fried ice cream anywhere. You could serve bunuelos, which is a deep fried flour tortilla that is sprinkled heavily with sugar. Another staple is mexican candies, there are all sorts, milk caramel candy called cajeta, which we love to eat by the spoonful, natillas, glorias, the variety is endless all of those can be found at a mex grocer, pastel de tres leches, a sort of cake soaked in a sweet three milk combination and you can serve cafe de olla, (olla means cookpot) which is coffee to which you add a couple sticks of cinammon while it perks and sweetened with very coarse brown sugar, called piloncillo. Cafe con leche is cafe au lait, we drink that preferably in the mornings. Arroz con leche is another good choice, its rice and milk pudding. Check the links another good choice are the churros, chongos and dulce de leche, although the items on that page are a far cry from the amazing variety of candies, if you can get guavas make a jellied guava confection, which is eaten in slices together with cheese, either manchego or chihuahua, both mexican varieties of cheese.



Jellied Guava Confection



INGREDIENTS (for 4 portions)



1 kilo of ripe guavas, (approx 2 pounds) not the soft and mushy kind and not green, just slightly soft.

the juice of 3 or 4 lemons

SYRUP:

3 cups of sugar

2 apples

TO PREPARE Wash the guavas, place them in boiling water and leave them there for approximately five minutes or until the skins begin to burst open.

SYRUP: the peels, and the cores of the two apples are put to boil in two cups of water. In a separate pot dissolve half a cup of water and three spoonfuls of sugar. When it is syupy add half a cup of the peels and cores infusion. Process the guavas in a blender, strain them and start cooking the strained pulp. Add the syrup, stirring until it begins to boil, then add the remaining sugar stirring all the time for five minutes. Then add the lemon juice and keep heating for another five minutes. You can tell when its ready because when you stir it you can see the sides of the pot. Remove from flame and pour into a rectangular mold previously lined with waxed paper. It sets in 24 hours, then keep it in a sealed plastic container. Lasts two months.



As for drinks, well everybody knows margaritas, but cuba libre which is coke and brandy is popular as well in Mexico, you could also try some Mexican beers which are quite good, by the way, a very popular drink some years ago was beer lemonade, called German Beer, quite tasty and different, and also the micheladas, the vampiros, the palomas and the clamato are very popular drinks in Mexico. Sangria is another good choice, made with red wine, and of course the all time honored tequila and sangrita, or you can drink tequila the way it is supposed to, with salt and lime wedges. The way to do it is to pour some salt in the indentation between your thumb and your first finger, you then lick all the salt off, take a wedge of lime, bite it and suck the juice, then while you are holding the salt and lime juice still in your mouth take a shot of tequila and down it goes. You could also go for Mexican drink mixes or aguas frescas, non alcoholic beverages that you might consider, especially the jamaica (hibiscus flower iced tea mix), tamarindo and horchata, which are Mexican to boot, although you might try the prickly pear one too.



As to food, you need the guacamole and the salsas, and include the pico de gallo (roosters beak), a kind of dry salsa which is just chopped tomato, onion, serrano chiles and cilantro mixed together. The colors, red, white and green are the colors of the Mexican flag. Please no nachos, Monterrey Jack cheese or any other quasi tex mex additions. All the info so far provided is bona fide Mexican. thelast link features more info on salsas which you might like to try out first, or you can get the bottled kind.

Good Luck



As we say in Mexico, Buen provecho. (Bon appetit)
churros with powdered sugar. go to foodnetwork.com for recipes.
flan, fried ice cream, sopillas
Chocolate cake with a chocolate frosting and ice cream with a small chocolate drizzle. Hm... Fountain drinks maybe? Water? Danada! :D
margarita pie with pretzel crust

1/2 cup melted butter

5 ounces pretzels

1 tablespoon sugar

1-1/2 quarts vanilla ice cream, softened

3 ounces frozen limeade concentrate, thawed

2 ounce tequilla

1 ounce triple sec

juice and zest of a whole lime

lime slices and pretzel sticks for garnish



Put pretzels in food processor, add sugar and butter. Firmly press mixture in bottom and up sides of 9-inch pie plate. Freeze 1 hour. Mix the remaining ingredients in a large mixing bowl until combined. Pour into pie crust and freeze 4 hours, top each slice with a lime slice and a couple pretzel sticks.