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2. Molcajete - Wikipedia

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   Mini molcajete A molcajete holds its matching tejolote. A molcajete (Spanish: [molkaˈxete]; Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl molcaxitl) and tejolote (from Nahuatl texolotl) are stone tools, the traditional Mexican version of the mortar and pestle, [1] [2] similar to the South American batan, used for grinding various food products.

3. Mexican cuisine - Wikipedia

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   A molcajete and tejolote, the traditional mortar and pestle of Mexico. The importance of the chile goes back to the Mesoamerican period, where it was considered to be as much of a staple as corn and beans.

4. Mortar and pestle - Wikipedia

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   The molcajete, a version used by pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican cultures including the Aztec and Maya, stretching back several thousand years, is made of basalt and is used widely in Mexican cooking. Other Native American nations use mortars carved into the bedrock to grind acorns and other nuts. Many such depressions can be found in their territories.

5. Salsa (food) - Wikipedia

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   Mexican salsas were traditionally produced using the mortar and pestle–like molcajete, although blenders are now used. Mexican salsas include: Salsa roja , one of the two most common and well known types of salsa, "red sauce", is used as a condiment in Mexican and Southwestern (U.S.) cuisines; usually includes cooked tomatoes , chili peppers ...

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7. Aztec cuisine - Wikipedia

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   It is a bowl made of porous basalt rock, and an accompanying basalt cylinder was used to grind foods into the molcajete. It looks and functions very similarly to a western mortar and pestle . The fact that a molcajete will hold whatever is prepared in it means it would have been ideal for preparing sauces that would spill off the sides of a ...