Mexican Ingredients

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1. This leafy green herb is used not only in Mexican cuisine, but Chinese as well. It has a deeply fragrant aroma and spices many different dishes. Cabbage Parsley Cilantro Kale

2. Sticking with green, this sumptuous green fruit is common as a topping in many Mexican dishes or sauces. It comes in several varieties and always contains a large central seed. squash avocado tomato pineapple

3. This next food is not considered a staple of cuisine, yet was cultivated in Mesoamerica first. It lends its rich flavor to mole, and is now eaten by billions of people around the world. chocolate corn sweet potato chicken

4. Ceviche is a Yucutan dish in which raw fish is cooked by using the juice of which of the following fruits? lime papaya peach banana

5. This medium-sized hot pepper has become synonymous with Mexican cuisine, even making its way into nacho and pizza toppings in the United States. pasilla habanero scotch bonnet jalapeno

6. This is the principal grain of Mexican cooking, used to create tamales, tortillas, and totopos. wheat squash corn rice

7. Which meat was NOT found in Mesoamerican diets? rattlesnake buffalo spider monkey iguana

8. Which fruit or vegetable was NOT indigenous to the MesoAmerican culture? corn garlic tomato sweet potato

9. Time for Cheese! What are the names of some of the cheeses found in Mexican cooking? queso anejo queso oaxaca queso fresco all of the these

10. Rice is an original ingredient in Mexican cooking? True False