Fideo Mexican Style, a family favorite!
Fideo is the name that in Mexican cuisine is given to vermicelli or angel hair pasta. This dish is typically consumed at lunch time, has a spicy kick of jalapeno combined with a garlic tomato sauce and enjoyed with crumbled queso fresco and fresh chopped cilantro. Here you have the ingredients for preparing Fideo Mexican style and serve it as a main dish for dinner.
Ingredients for preparing Fideo Mexican Style
INGREDIENTS
- 1 package of fideo (12 ounces)
- 1/4 cup of canola oil
- 2 cans (7 ounces each) of Mexican style tomato sauce with jalapeno
- 1 chicken bouillon cube
- 1 garlic cube
- 1 cup of water
- Salt and pepper
- 1 cup of chopped cilantro
- 1 cup of crumbled queso fresco
Preparation time: 30 minutes. You will need a sauteing pan with a lid and a plate. This recipe serves 4-6 guests. Cost per person less than $1.00 depending on ingredients cost at your local supermarket.
How to prepare Fideo Mexican Style
Start by frying the fideo pasta in the canola oil until golden brown when ready set aside in a plate, then remove excess oil from the pan and cook the tomato sauce on the same pan you fried the pasta; add the condiments, salt, pepper and a cup of water, let it simmer and then add the fried fideos. Cover the pan with the lid, lower the flame and let the fideo cook for few minutes until pasta becomes al dente. Add the chopped cilantro, serve in a bowl and sprinkle with crumbled queso fresco. Fideo is a comfort food of my childhood most definitely a guilty pleasure that brings me so many wonderful memories growing up when we were used to enjoy this dish as a family. Now that I have a family of my own here in Florida I prepare this dish for them and my Cuban family really likes it. I am sure that after learning how to prepare this Fideo Mexican Style you will agree that is a different way of preparing pasta though very easy and tasty. I am sure that if you prepare this dish to your family quickly it will become a weekday supper favorite.
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10/31/13 – Thursday – Adriana’s Best Recipes – Fideo Mexican Style
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Great recipe Adriana and you have given me a new thing to try with pasta (I haven’t fried it before cooking). I’m so intrigued on how it does and have to make this soon.
Frying the pasta gives it a nutty flavor I am sure you will love it thanks Renee!
oh I love this Mexican inspired angel hair pasta dish!!! Looks delicious!
Many thanks Alice big fan of your recipes too!
Yumy! I love a low cost easy to make recipe, gracias pro seta nueva opcion.
Hi Kathia indeed a humble dish full of flavor and marvelous family memories thanks for stopping by!
The aroma of frying fideo is so good! Your version of Mexican fideo looks so delicious with the crumbled cheese, cilantro and tomato sauce. I’m going to share this recipe with my mom to give her another creative option of preparing fideos!
I hear you Isabel the aromas of this fideo brings me so many memories from my childhood, thanks for stopping by if your mom prepares this recipe let me know how she liked it please, saludos!