Tampico Pumpkin-Seed Green Sauce

Pepián Verde de Tampico

Preparation info
  • About

    3 cups

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Food from My Heart: Cuisines of Mexico Remembered and Reimagined

By Zarela Martínez

Published 1992

  • About

I first ate and loved this sauce at the Restaurante Diligencia in Tampico, Tamaulipas. They serve it with pan-fried fish fillets and fried fish roe, accompanied by steaming hot tortillas. I have found it marvelous with grilled fish, chicken and duck breasts, fried shrimp, and roast lamb. It is great in the fillings for Sopes. The sauce should be very buttery and make your mouth tingle!