Mexican Food Word Search
Play a Mexican Food word search free online. We built the 12-word list around the ingredients, dishes, and flavors of a food topic, then scattered it across a 15×15 grid — horizontal, vertical and diagonal. Find them all to clear the board.
Words to find: TACO, BURRITO, ENCHILADA, QUESADILLA, TAMALE, POZOLE, MENUDO, CHILE, SALSA, GUACAMOLE, CILANTRO, JALAPENO.
Found words stay highlighted, so the grid gets easier to read as you go and the final few tend to fall quickly.
Mexican Food word list, defined
- TACO /ˈtɑːkoʊ/ · noun
- A Mexican-inspired dish consisting of a folded or rolled corn tortilla filled with ingredients such as meat, beans, cheese, lettuce, or salsa. The term is also used for similar foods made with wheat tortillas or soft fried shells.
- BURRITO /bəˈriːtoʊ/ · noun
- A Mexican and Tex-Mex dish consisting of a flour tortilla wrapped or folded around a filling such as beans, rice, meat, cheese, and salsa. Related: wrap.
- ENCHILADA /ˌɛntʃɪˈlɑːdə/ · noun
- A Mexican dish consisting of a rolled tortilla filled typically with meat, cheese, or beans, covered with a chilli sauce and baked. Related: tortilla dish, burrito, quesadilla.
- QUESADILLA /ˌkesəˈdiːə/ · noun
- A Mexican dish consisting of a flour or corn tortilla filled with cheese and sometimes meat, vegetables, or other ingredients, then folded and usually grilled or toasted. It is often served with salsa, guacamole, or sour cream. Related: cheese tortilla, cheese-filled tortilla.
- TAMALE /təˈmɑːli/ · noun
- A Mexican dish consisting of a filling such as meat, cheese, or beans wrapped in corn or masa dough and steamed or cooked in its wrapping. Related: tamales.
- POZOLE /pəˈzoʊleɪ/ · noun
- A traditional Mexican soup made from cooked corn (hominy) in a seasoned broth, commonly served with meat, chillies, lime, and other garnishes. It is also an important dish in Mexican American and Southwestern US cuisine. Related: posole, pozole soup, corn soup, maize soup.
- MENUDO /mɛnˈduːdoʊ/ · noun & adjective
- As a noun, menudo is a Puerto Rican breakfast soup traditionally made with rice, beans, meat, boiled egg, and other ingredients. As an adjective, it means small, scanty, or meager. Related: breakfast soup, stew, broth.
- CHILE /ˈtʃɪli/ · noun
- A variant spelling of chili: the pod-like fruit of any of several varieties of Capsicum pepper, especially the hot kinds used as a spice or in cooking. Related: chili, chilli, pepper, capsicum.
- SALSA /ˈsælsə/ (US); /ˈsɑːlsə/ (UK) · noun
- A spicy or savory sauce, typically made with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and herbs, and served with food. By extension, it refers to a lively Latin-derived dance and the syncopated music accompanying it. Related: sauce, relish, condiment, chutney.
- GUACAMOLE /ˌɡwɑːkəˈmeɪli/ · noun
- A thick dip or spread made chiefly from mashed avocado and typically seasoned with lime or lemon juice, salt, and often onion, chilli, or coriander. Related: guac, avocado dip, avocado spread.
- CILANTRO /sɪˈlæntroʊ/ · noun
- The fresh leaves and tender stems of the coriander plant (Coriandum sativum), widely used as a culinary herb, especially in Mexican, Indian, Southeast Asian, and Middle Eastern cooking. Related: coriander leaves, fresh coriander, Chinese parsley.
- JALAPENO /ˌhæləˈpeɪnoʊ/ · noun, adjective
- A jalapeño is a long, usually green, hot pepper of the species Capsicum annuum. As an adjective, it describes food made with or flavored using jalapeños. Related: jalapeño pepper, jalapeno pepper, hot pepper, green chile.
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