Chileajo

Vegetables in Guajillo Sauce

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Oaxaca: Home Cooking from the Heart of Mexico

By Bricia Lopez and Javier Cabral

Published 2019

  • About

If traveling around Oaxaca with a vegan friend or family member, Chileajo will be your best friend. It’s just a bunch of tender vegetables dressed up in a bright chile sauce and it tastes so good. If you can add a little cheese, that rounds it all out. But if you can’t, no worries, the flavor will still be there. It’s a common street food around Oaxaca and tastes really great on top of a freshly fried tostada or chalupa, or on a torta in between fresh bread. The sauce c