Yucatan Green Chile Sauté with Cumin-Lime Sauce

Eat like a Mayan

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    2–4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      30 min

Appears in
Well Fed Weeknights: Complete Paleo Meals in 45 Minutes or Less

By Melissa Joulwan

Published 2016

  • About

I grew up in Pennsylvania in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and to me, Mexican food was smothered in orange cheese, always included refried beans, and was seasoned with a heavy hand of red chili powder. To be clear: I will go to town on Americanized Mexican food with glee. But a trip to Playa del Carmen and a particularly memorable pumpkin seed salsa made me curious about the more European flavors of the Yucatan. The cuisine marries the influence of the Dutch, Lebanese, and Spanish with local ingredien