Tlacoyos appears as a signature dish in 1 Mexico cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Tlacoyos · Mexico City
Hand-pressed oval cakes of blue or yellow corn masa stuffed with frijol refrito or requeson, cooked on a comal and topped with nopales, queso fresco, salsa verde and chopped onion. Pre-Hispanic street food.
Tlacoyos are a Pre-Hispanic dish dating to the Aztec era, originally made on the comal griddle from nixtamalised corn masa stuffed with the same wild beans, fava beans or chickpeas. The name comes from the Nahuatl tlatlaoyo (corn cake). The blue-corn version comes from the heirloom maize varieties of Tlaxcala and Estado de Mexico that still survive at Mercado de San Juan and Tlacoyos Dona Jose. Modern restaurants like Expendio de Maiz have built modern Mexican cuisine around this canonical dish.
Where to eat in Mexico City:
- Tlacoyos Dona Jose
- Expendio de Maiz Sin Nombre
- Molino El Pujol
- Mercado de Coyoacan