Pati's Mexican Table

Recados

Pati returns to Merida to meet sisters, Delia and Maria Elide, who love to cook and laugh and are famous for recados - pastes of spices and aromatic herbs that season Yucatecan foods. In Uxmal, she learns about ingredients only found in Yucatan that make recados unique, touring citrus, habanero, and chaya fields at an hacienda. Then traditional cook Rosa makes a Relleno Negro using a recado negro. Recipes in Pati's Kitchen: Black Bean Tamales; Pibil Pork; Orange and Hibiscus Flower Water