What Are Mexican tomatoes and How Can I Use Them?
Here's everything worth knowing about mexican tomatoes and how to pick them, what they are, how to store them, and what to use instead, plus 6 recipes to cook tonight.
Key Points
- A loose label, not one variety; usually fresh tomatoes for Mexican dishes or canned with chiles.
- Read the recipe: seasoned canned tomatoes with chiles add built-in heat to chili.
- See tomatoes for general selecting and storage.
What are mexican tomatoes?
This is a loose label, not a single variety. In recipes it usually means either fresh tomatoes for Mexican cooking or, more often, canned tomatoes already mixed with green chiles and seasoning.
So read the recipe before you shop. If it wants the seasoned canned kind, a can of tomatoes with chiles brings built-in heat to a pot of Uncle Roy's Chili or Very Veggie Chili. If it just means tomatoes for a Mexican dish, plain ones work fine.
For how to pick ripe ones and store them, see tomatoes.
Quick facts
- In Chinese
- 墨西哥西红柿
- British (UK) term
- Mexican tomatoes
- en français
- tomates mexicaines
- en español
- tomates mexicanos
Recipes using mexican tomatoes
There are 6 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Uncle Roy's Chili
Uncle Roy's chili: a meatless vegetarian chili with two kinds of canned tomatoes, kidney beans, three tablespoons of chili powder, and a serious shot of hot pepper sauce. Pantry-friendly weeknight one-pot dinner.
My Favorite Chili
Ground beef chili with kidney beans, crushed Roma tomatoes, Mexican stewed tomatoes, and vegetable juice. A straightforward, simmered-from-scratch weeknight chili.
Oshkinigikwe(Tomato Stew)
Oshkinigikwe is a traditional Anishinaabe tomato stew built from Mexican tomatoes, shallots, cucumbers, and corn flour. Simple, vegan, and deeply rooted in Indigenous foodways.
Alice's Favorite Chili
Beef chili simmers ground beef with kidney beans, crushed Italian and Mexican stewed tomatoes, vegetable juice, onions, and chili powder. Easy crowd-pleasing weeknight chili recipe.
Corn Pone Pie
Ground beef, corn, Mexican stewed tomatoes, and black olives baked under a golden cornbread crust. A weeknight casserole the whole family will dig into.
Very Veggie Chili
Very Veggie Chili is a hearty pantry-friendly vegetarian chili with pinto beans, hominy, corn, green chiles and a fistful of cilantro. Ready in under an hour, freezes beautifully.
