Beginning ESL <br>Instructor: Steve Winston

Nopalito Salad

Steve Winston

Nopalito salad is my favorite dish. My class and I prepared it to practise for the cookbook.

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El nopal is the name of several varieties of large, prickly pear cacti common in the U.S. andMexico. Nopalitos are the cactus pads peeled, boiled and chopped. The recipe below is popular and inexpensive. Use only young pads as the older ones are stringy.

Ingredients

Directions

1. Boil cactus pads 20 minutes in salted water. Rinse in cold water, drain, and set aside.
2. Peel and chop carrots.
3. Shred cabbage.
4. Chop tomatoes, jalapeņos, cilantro, and onion.
5. Add chopped vegetables and nopalitos to a large bowl. Mix thoroughly.
6. Quarter limes and squeeze juice over the salad. Mix again.
7. Let stand one hour, then serve on tostadas.

Pot Stickers

Chan Wong

I am from China. Pot stickers are very popular in my country. We like these for breakfast.

Ingredients for pot stickers

Sauce for dipping

Directions

1. Chop cabbage into small pieces.
2. Put the cabbage into a big bowl.
3. Add salt, oyster sauce, soy sauce, black pepper, sugar, and MSG to bowl. Mix thoroughly.
4. Let mixture sit for two hours.
5. Chop meat very fine.
6. Remove one wrapper from package.
7. Put a pinch of meat and some of cabbage mixture in middle of wrapper.
8. Fold back the wrapper and pinch edges together. Set aside.
9. Repeat until you have used all the wrappers.
10. Cook all the pot stickers in boiling water for ten minutes.
11. Mix ingredients for dipping sauce.
12. Remove pot stickers from water, drain, and in a dry frying pan until they stick.
13. Dip in sauce and eat while hot.

Breast of Chicken Salad

Jovita Garcia, Maria Robledo, Maria Avila,

Irma Martinez, Ignacia Munoz, Francisco Munoz

We are from Mexico. Our recipe is breast of chicken salad. Everybody in Mexicoeats breast of chicken salad. You can find everything easy in the USA.It is not expensive. It's a quick food. Good for feeding lots of people.

Ingredients

Directions

1. Skin and bone chicken.
2. Chop chicken into little pieces and fry until pieces are cooked.
3. Open cans and drain.
4. Slice and chop lettuce.
5. Put lettuce in a large bowl.
6. Add Garbanzo beans, Vegetables, sweet peas, and corn.
7. Mix the ingredients.
8. Add sour cream.
9. Chop jalapeno peppers and add to mixture.
10. Add chicken.
11. Mix thoroughly.
12. Eat on tostadas.

Crab Salad

Reina Duran of El Salvador; and Guadalupe Flores,

Genoveva Nuno, and Rafael Cortez of Mexico

This is a Salvadoreno plate. And we eat Crab salad in celebrations. The total cost of this dish is $15 with imitation crab. All Latin Americans eat this food, too.This is a healthy food, without fat.

Ingredients

Directions

1. Boil eggs for ten minutes until hard. Cool under cold water.
2. Shred the crab. Put in big bowl.
3. Peel eggs. Chop and add to crab.
4. Chop the cilantro, green onions, celery and lettuce fine.
5. Add chopped vegetables to the crab.
6. Add the mayonnaise and mix.
7. Salt to taste.
8. Eat with Frito chips.

Lahu Eggrolls

Esarn See, Pan See, Aibung See, Chalae See,

Choy See

We are Lahu. We are from Laos. This is a Lahu food. We eat for special meals.You can get most of the foods in the USA.

Ingredients

Directions:

1. Clean the vegetables.
2. Slice the lemon grass.
3. Slice the peppers.
4. Fry the meat.
5. Peel the garlic and ginger.
6. Chop the garlic and ginger.
7. Chop two stalks of lemon grass or enough for two tbls.
8. Chop cilantro and abenu.
9. Mix chopped spices, garlic, pepper.
10. Boil rice noodles until soft.
11. Fry meat until brown.
12. Drain meat, mix with noodles and spices, garlic, and pepper.
13. Peel the wrappers carefully.
14. Add eggs to the mixture.
15. Add one teaspoon salt.
16. Add one teaspoon hot pepper.
17. Add MSG, one tsp.
18. Mix everything good.
19. Add one tablespoon mixture to one wrapper, roll, seal with corn starch.
20. Cook in hot oil until brown or about 15 minutes.
21. Drain and serve while hot.

Pollo en Azado

(Chicken with Vegetables)

Teresa Sotelo, Maria Saucedo, Modesta Mendoza,

Angelica Rascon, all of Mexico; Paz Duran, El Salvador

We eat this food twice a week. We always buy the ingredients in the store. They are the same ingredients in our country. The cost is low.

Ingredients

Directions

1. Wash the chicken.
2. Peel and chop the chicken into pieces.
3. Peel the carrots and potatoes.
4. Put 1/2 of butter in a deep pot.
5. Add salt to taste.
6. Add the black pepper.
7. Add one cup of diced potatoes and one cup of diced carrots to the pot.
8. Alternate with rest of butter and pieces of chicken.
9. Cover pot and cook over low fire for 30 minutes.

Mixiensui (Mien Noodle Salad)

Chio Kwang Saechao, Lai Choy Saelee,

Tia Kue Moua, and May Chang of Laos

We eat this salad in celebrations. It's a special food. We buy the ingredientsat supermarkets and Lao food stores. The ingredients are not the same as in our country. The ingredients here cost $37. Chio and Lai Choy are Mienand May and Tia are Hmong.

Ingredients

Directions

1. Boil rice noodles until soft.
2. Drain noodles and set aside.
3. Boil eggs until hard.
4. Peel carrots and cucumbers.
5. Peel eggs.
6. Wash the lettuce.
7. Slice bell peppers into thin slices.
8. Slice the cucumbers.
9. Slice the carrots into strips.
10. Slice the tomatoes.
11. Chop lettuce into small pieces.
12. Cut the cilantro, use only leaves.
13. Put noodles into a large bowl.
14. Add chopped vegetables and eggs and spices.
15. Add Italian and Thousand Island dressing.
16. Mix thoroughly.
17. Add the MSG and salt to taste.
18. Eat and enjoy.

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