I agree. I've had California, Arizona, New Mexico and Tex-Mex Mexican food and they're all wonderful in their unique ways and very different from each other. By far IMHO, Tex-Mex is the the best because of the variety of flavors and experimentation.
@@jdbroders64 I grew up in Arizona so I'm partial to Sonoran style dishes.That's what so great about Mexican food it varies from state to state on both sides of the border.
You can't go wrong with chicken mole enchiladas! Mole sauce is primarily a tomato and chocolate based sauce with lots of added spices. The chocolate is NOT very sweet, it's still a very savory sauce.
The beginning isn't nachos--Tex-Mex places almost always give you free tortilla chips and salsa. If you want nachos, you have to order (and pay for) them.
I'm 43 years old... born and raised and lived in Austin, TX my entire life and didn't know about this place. But, come this weekend I will go and find out. It looks so good!
This was obviously an excellent Tex-Mex restaurant. Good ones are found in almost every town in the state. Tex-Mex is one of my go-to foods for dining, or taking home. ❤
I have relatives in Texas that run Tex-Mex style restaurants and the food is delicious. and to be honest in my life of visiting them, I have only eaten at the restaurant once. The home cooked meals made by them are far more superior than the restaurant food. I bet if Jolly had a chance to go home with the cook/chef of this place and had a meal they feed their family, it would be life changing!
more than likely. I think my food better then most restaurants especially the corporate mex joints. Almost always, the best Mexican food, comes from small out of the way places or now food trucks. One the greatest Mexican food experiences I ever had was in a tiny six top joint in Nebraska of all places.
Mole is one of the most interesting sauce if you can really classify it as that. Every region even family in Mexico has their own slight different recipe. I've had them from 16 to 36 ingredients that take 8 to 12hrs to prepare, all have been amazing.
Most of the moles I have had have been an acquired taste but the very last time I had mole it was absolutely exquisite. 😋😥 Unfortunately that was years before discovering my medical condition that doesn’t allow me to certain spices. ☹️😭 Please let me continue to live vicariously through you all that at least! Please try New Mexican-Mex too!!! 🙏
My mom would get so mad cause me and my siblings would always sneak out a chunk of "Abuelitas" and chow down on it in our rooms. They can be chopped up due to having wedge indentations on every disc.
The Aztec lords drank mole ... chili and cocoa (which was their money). Mole is often put over baked chicken. Huevos rancheros is for breakfast. Chili, flat corn tortilla, meat, beans, hash browns and eggs. I like mine with chicken and the eggs over hard. Half price early in the morning on week days ... if you aren't there by 7:30 it is full.
Mole sauce can be bought in jars at the market, but if you make it from scratch it's a long process, there can be over 30 ingredients. and almost all need toasted separately before blending. But taste so good.
Molé is amazing. It’s like a subtle nutty chocolate chicken sauce. You must try it at least once in your life in an enchilada or over some sautéd chicken.
For easy taco recipies, I would watch some of Rick Bayles videos on tacos. He has lived in Mexico, runs a number of Mexican restaurants and many books on the topic.
a very basic explanation of enchiladas is this : imagine a simple cheese, meat, or (rarely) bean burrito baked while smothered/submerged in a gravy or sauce. it is heaven.
the issue you could potentially run into making Tex Mex is getting the spices and chilies. The RUclips channel ArnieTex has some really good easy recipes on it.
Exactly, just like the use of ground coffee in a rub for meat, or used in red-eye gravy Doesn’t make it taste like coffee, just adds a bitter undertone to the flavors
Texan here we would love for ya'll to come and enjoy Tex-Mex but please also try the Authentic Mexican and other southern bordered countries delicious foods as well. Ask the locals for the area you go to for the best foods here. The big chains are not the spots to hit if you want some delicious mouth watering foods. Usually its the family owned mom and pop spots that have the best. Much Love from Texas.
Jolly and Korean Englishman are great shows. I make a lot of enchiladas and posole all the time. Mole is very yummy! The best peppers IMO are the Hatch’s Green Chiles and they come from New Mexico. Great reaction! 😊👏🏽👍🏽
At 2:02 and 2:30 when u said nachos, those aren't nachos. There basic Tex-Mex Torilla Chips served with Guacamole and various salsas. Also there is a big difference between Tex-Mex and Mexican. Mexican is more convenient but Spicier, Tex-Mex is more Quality with flavor but mostly in the state of Texas
You guys are so cute. Cooking tip: Keep it simple. Both tacos and biscuits were made by working class people for working class people. It was just good filling food. Nowadays, there are posh versions and there are exotic versions (ignore these at first). If it's hard work then that's the wrong recipe for you. Have fun, kids.
Being born, and raised in Texas… Tex-Mex is basically my default food. I mean yes we absolutely have barbecue here but barbecue is a lot of work and I’m not doing that every day or even every week… But I will cook and eat some form of TexMex several times a week.
I got a great recipe for enchiladas with scratch-made red sauce from the RUclips channel Rachel Cooks With Love. She walks you thru each step & makes it so easy. They came out beautifully. Using only American cheese was a bit salty for me so I opted for half American/half sharp cheddar & instead of using raw onions, I decided to caramelize mine. But that red sauce..... She's also got a wonderful tutorial on making tamales. which I've learned to cook faster in either an instant pot or in the microwave (bc patience, after 8+ hours of cooking smelling the aromas wafting in the air, is something I do NOT have 😂).
SO GOOD! The enchiladas mole, enchiladas verdes (green sauce), the enchiladas roja (red sauce) are so good! It is hatd to describe but the food looks fantastic. I have been to Mexico many times and the food is just wonderful!
Those aren’t nachos, they’re just basket tortilla chips. Lol. Nachos are a dish with have many toppings placed on them or eaten with atleast cheese on the chips.
I live in New Mexico and we don't really eat Tex-mex we actually eat Mexican food..We are known for our home grown green chile from Hatch, New Mexico. Yummy 😋
As a 5th generation Texan and of Mexican decent, as well as a life long Austin, TX area native, this restaurant did not impress. This is actually “Hipster” Tex-mex. There are enormously better Tex-Amex around, especially here in Texas.
First rule of Tex-Mex & New Mexican food. Sadly, the more it looks like "dog food" the better it's going to taste. It means all of those flavors have melded together.
I have an easy recipe, I worked with this lady that was from Texas and she made these awesome enchiladas! You get ground beef, season it with onion and garlic, or you can use onion and garlic powder while browning meat. Drain hamburger. Then you mix in a can or two of of chili or leftover chili, salsa and cheddar cheese, stir until bubbly. Spoon meat into a tortilla, roll up fit as many as you can in a dish, then pour any leftover chili on top and sprinkle with more cheddar cheese. Put in the oven for a few minutes till cheese is bubbling. Serve with Mexican rice, refried beans and tortilla chips. 🥰😋😋
It's very true though, gotta have the best hot sauce, queso, guacamole, Pico dialo, chips and home made tortillas. Then whatever you ordered and your good to go. 😁 Speaking from a native Texan.👍
@@lokasenna32 yes, I shortened the word just like I didn't use the hyphen between Tex-Mex. Besides, I was swyping and kept right on going. Apologies!!!
Crispy ("brittle") tacos are Tex-Mex. You don't usually encounter them in Mexico or even other border areas except at chains like Taco Bell. Also let's clear up the issue of mole. While the most common and popular version of mole in the US has chocolate in it, there are many Mexican regional mole versions that don't. What they all have in common is ingredients like seeds and chiles. "Green tomatoes" are tomatillos, a different thing that resembles small green tomatoes but aren't.
2:05 Not nachos, just chips and salsa. Nachos would be a prepared dish with tortilla chips and toppings (something like cheese, salsa, peppers, guacamole, and meat) .
My family usually just makes enchiladas using corn tortillas, cheese, onions, and red chile. You can also make enchiladas using flour tortillas and green chile. They're all delicious.
I think you guys would love enchiladas, tamales, and posole. Not sure how many Mexican restaurants you have over there, but I'd love to see you do a reaction video trying those Mexican staples. I grew up with the authentic, homemade versions of those items and learned how to cook them at a young age. I'd also like to see you try chiles rellenos.
I live here in Austin. Never tried this place till i saw Jolly's video. I assure you, it is as wonderful as they say it is. It has become one of our favorite go to places.
Taco Bell tacos are real tacos. They may not be the top quality, but they are still tacos. I bet all those people who say they're not real tacos have, many times, gone through the Taco Bell drive-thru, then sat in their car in the parking lot while they crushed a bag full of their "not real" tacos. It's a guilty pleasure for everyone.
Ollie's "Nesquick" comments are hilarious but potentially offensive to Mexicans. Besides cacao (chocolate), Mole has a lot of chili and other spices that gives it a complex flavor. Using Abuelita hot-chocolate by Nestle is a shortcut, a lot of my Mexican friends consider that as sacrilege do not use that in their mole sauce.
Easy Tex-Mex tacos: 1.Brown some ground beef 2.Drain liquid off of it as it cooks down. 3. Throw it a chopped onion. 4. About a tablespoon of minced garlic. 5. Slice a bell pepper. Cook everything together. 6. Add Taco seasoning 7. Brown some flour tortillas. 8. Fill the tortilla with the ground beef and vegetables that you cooked. 9. Enjoy with a spoon full of sour cream and your salsa of choice
My wife grew up on California, and since her mother didn't cook, learned to look from her Mexican neighbors and friends from Texas. I got a good one, boys.
If you want crispy tacos you fry them in corn oil soft you put in the hot oil flip it put it on paper towels to drip the oil off and pat the oil off with paper towels if you dont want to much oil fry the ground beef with salt pepper cumin and garlic not to much salt only where you can taste it and cumin less then the salt i like cumin so and throw a few pieces of onions fry it up and thats it ofcourse chop lettuce tomates how you like long strip cut thin tomates and shredd mild cheddar cheese or.mozzarella cheese mix them up or make two mild cheddar 2 mozzarella fill your taco and eat
I haven’t been there- but texmex places like this are everywhere, especially in south Texas. When y’all visit Texas my family and I will happily treat y’all to the most authentic texmex that the locals eat!
@@BoneheadGames-q4n That's kind of an insane comment. Most of the west coast including Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia have substantial Latino populations for the same reason that California does: Migrant labor. There are TONS of authentic Mexican restaurants around here. Also, the secret is the nastier looking the taco truck the better the food. From my place here in Vancouver Washington (just north of Portland) I can _walk_ to fifteen decent Mexican places, from pretty high-end authentic Baja food to a little shack by a Shell station run by two Abuelas who just make tamales that are to die for. $2 each and the best ones are the cheese and chili ones, which they always seem to sell out of before I get there. (They mostly serve the lunch crowd and almost always run out of everything by 5:00.)
Mole differs so much between households as everyone has a recipe that is passed down for ages. They all have one thing in common and that’s Mexican chocolate which is different than chocolate you know. Mexican chocolate has zero sugar and relies on its freshly made taste. This chocolate is near the exact production time meaning it’s made quickly shaped, packaged, and used within a day. It’s actually bitter as it’s almost pure cocoa nibs. It’s more astringent than average chocolate hence why it’s a chocolate added to things not eaten by itself. Mole is a combination of various spices, maybe meat, and definitely chocolate. It takes time to make right as it can’t hit boil and make it nice and velvety.
The thing with mole is that if you like BBQ sauce on things, you will like mole sauce. It is got that same vibe. ... and yes Millie, you did eat authentic tacos. The corn (crunchy) tacos are the originals tacos that made their way to the US. Soft tacos are a relatively new thing for Taco Bell and other restaurants (and are a kind of Americanized thing). My family had been making soft tacos for about 20 years before Taco Bell sold them. We called them California Tacos. We do them a little differently in that we fry the flour tortilla and add lots and lots of guacamole and/or avocados and sour cream to the regular taco ingredients.
Really enjoyed your reaction to this video!! I live 5 minutes from that Eldorado Cafe in Austin and it's one of my favorite places to go. That mole sauce on the enchiladas is AMAZING!!! My favorite thing there. And that last salsa they tried, the yellow one, is truly hot!!! I grew up in Texas and love spicy food, but that yellow sauce, the "scorpion", is too hot even for me. But definitely love the Eldorado Cafe!!
Nesquick is coco an sugar. Most times something is asking for both, you can add up the amounts an replace both with nesquick. I made brownies last week that way because I was out of coco. They were good.
Not many Mexican or TexMex restaurants do it, but a long time ago, I had gone to a Mexican restaurant, and the queso sauce came with refried beans in it. So you would dip your chip in it and have queso/refried beans as an appetizer. It was such a good combination. Sometimes, I remember to recreate it while at a Mexican restaurant, lol.
I live about 15 minutes from Eldorado Cafe. It’s a popular place in Austin and very good. The mole enchiladas (with the chocolate) is fantastic and my favorite thing there. Tbh it’s not really Tex Mex. If I remember correctly, they (Eldorado) consider themselves Mexican inspired comfort food. Tex Mex purists are probably annoyed by it being categorized as Tex Mex. However anyone wants to classify it though it’s fantastic! In fact I need to get back there soon. I haven’t tried that Thunder Rosa taco and it looks delicious!
I can only imagine how much that costs, because Tex-Mex these days isn't as cheap as it use to be. Those ingredients look AMAZING! You'll only find this in a restaurant in Cali, AZ, NM, and TX. Or at someone's abuela's house.
Well, now I want enchiladas. Y’all, I lived in the UK for two years and I definitely made tacos all the time. And this was in 2004-2006! I’m sure there’s more available in the supermarkets now!
I grew up in the northeast. I’d never heard of a Taco. When I moved to the Midwest the 1st ‘Mexican’ food I ever ate was a hard shell at Taco Bell. This was back in 71 so their food was a lot better than what they serve now. I’ve since moved back to New England but I will admit that 2 or 3 times a year I’ll stop and get a couple of hard shells.
From my childhood on my favorite dinner is home made tacos. Nothing fancy. I brown up hamburger. Grate up Med cheddar cheese. Shred Iceburge lettuce and dice tomatos. Melt lard in a heavy pan. Keep on a med heat. I prefer corn tortillas and place on in as it starts to bubble I flip it and then fold in half and fry to stiff which should get it crispy. Drain on a paper towel and to make the taco just layer in the beff first then the rest of the goodies and top with a favorite salsa. I do make my own green salsa with Tomatillos. It pretty easy to find recipes to make your own. I can it up each summer red and green salsas.
TexMex food is delicious!! TexMex is a kind of fusion food..I don’t care!!! I know that people will start an argument and make comparisons to real Mexican food..I’ve traveled and had food from around the world!!! Taco Bell is one food that I can’t wait to come back to!! (Sadly their menu sucks now) All I can say is…appreciate!! There are amazing foods all around the world!! From high end to street foods, I can’t tell the difference!! To be honest, the best foods are from homemade cooking!!! If someone gave me a choice for a homemade dinner or a restaurant..?? Best believe, I will go for homemade cooking!!!
J..E..T..S...JETS, JETS, JETS!!!!!! Hahaha!!! Tex-mex, for someone not used to it, is a once in a while treat. Always up for it, cause it's always good eats!! In west-central Pennsylvania, it's not hard to find it. But, it's incredibly hard to find truly good tasting.
I make Mole. Its my husband's favorite thing! I use a jar sauce that is like a paste and you add chicken broth, a tablet (big) of Mexican chocolate which has cinnamon in it, and peanut butter. Soooooo good. I roast chicken and the mole sauce goes over the chicken served with Mexican style rice and home made refried beans. Corn tortillas to stuff the ingredients in. If you are interested I can send you the ingredients you probably can't get there.
meat of your choice either ground (mince) or cut into small pieces. diced onion, cilantro (coriander) fresh squeezed lime. guacamole (real mexican guac is a thin sauce and not a thick dip) sour cream. a plain flour (or corn) tortilla is grilled on both sides with a little oil before you assemble the taco. personally grill the flour tortilla and then spread a thin layer of refried beans and use it as a wrapper around a hard taco. it helps keep the hard taco together and not get messy while still getting the crunch. *credit: taco bell.
I live in Austin. The thing is there’s a Tex-Mex restaurant on every corner and everyone has their favorite! I was eating Tex-Mex as some of my first meals as a kid. Most of the restaurants all have similar menus, but every where tastes different. If you ever make it to Texas (Austin specifically) I’d be happy to give you some recommendations.
My fave Tex-Mex food is fajitas. Mostly due to how much I love beef but the other is how many types of meats you can use with them. Side note: I go insane when there's freshly made tortilla chips straight from the fire. There is nothing like fresh tortilla chips you can down with a nice drink.
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Tex-Mex is Mexican food influenced by what was available to use in Texas. Its the original "fusion" food.
I agree. I've had California, Arizona, New Mexico and Tex-Mex Mexican food and they're all wonderful in their unique ways and very different from each other. By far IMHO, Tex-Mex is the the best because of the variety of flavors and experimentation.
@@jdbroders64 Love the assessment. Tex-Mex is certainly a thing. But not mine. Tasty, for sure. Salsa and guaawk. nummers
@@jdbroders64 It's probably worth noting all of those states were once part of Mexico; see also The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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Yep and the actual cuisine of Mexico is different from the Mexican food of the 4 border states too
@@jdbroders64 I grew up in Arizona so I'm partial to Sonoran style dishes.That's what so great about Mexican food it varies from state to state on both sides of the border.
You can't go wrong with chicken mole enchiladas! Mole sauce is primarily a tomato and chocolate based sauce with lots of added spices. The chocolate is NOT very sweet, it's still a very savory sauce.
Love Chicken mole it's rad.
In Veracruz we call them "Enmoladas," and they're my favorite. Except for chilaquiles.
Chipotle is a vital ingredient. Molé is fantastic.
The beginning isn't nachos--Tex-Mex places almost always give you free tortilla chips and salsa. If you want nachos, you have to order (and pay for) them.
I'm 43 years old... born and raised and lived in Austin, TX my entire life and didn't know about this place. But, come this weekend I will go and find out. It looks so good!
It's fairly recent. Joel (the guy in the white shirt) was the chef at Taco Deli
Damn you, NO fair! 😠
I live up in the Panhandle and avoid Austin at all costs... but I might sneak in for a platter of good TX MX this winter.
did u go?
@@instinctrules2969 Yes.... A long time ago...
This was obviously an excellent Tex-Mex restaurant. Good ones are found in almost every town in the state. Tex-Mex is one of my go-to foods for dining, or taking home. ❤
This was a great Jolly Vid!!
Made me want some Tex Mex in a bad way......thankfully I live in Texas so it was only a short drive.
I prefer soft tortillas instead of hard shell. Yellow corn tortillas are a must
I have relatives in Texas that run Tex-Mex style restaurants and the food is delicious. and to be honest in my life of visiting them, I have only eaten at the restaurant once. The home cooked meals made by them are far more superior than the restaurant food. I bet if Jolly had a chance to go home with the cook/chef of this place and had a meal they feed their family, it would be life changing!
more than likely. I think my food better then most restaurants especially the corporate mex joints. Almost always, the best Mexican food, comes from small out of the way places or now food trucks. One the greatest Mexican food experiences I ever had was in a tiny six top joint in Nebraska of all places.
@Xiphos0311 and more than likely, mine is better than yours. But that's subjective
That is always the case. Restaurant food almost never compares to home-cooked meals.
Queso is spanish for cheese, and tex-mex for melted cheese dip (typically also with diced tomatos, peppers &/or onions)
I saw this Jolly video a while back and it made me so hungry! Thanks for resharing, but I'm hungry again!😆
Mole is one of the most interesting sauce if you can really classify it as that. Every region even family in Mexico has their own slight different recipe. I've had them from 16 to 36 ingredients that take 8 to 12hrs to prepare, all have been amazing.
Most of the moles I have had have been an acquired taste but the very last time I had mole it was absolutely exquisite. 😋😥 Unfortunately that was years before discovering my medical condition that doesn’t allow me to certain spices. ☹️😭 Please let me continue to live vicariously through you all that at least! Please try New Mexican-Mex too!!! 🙏
Lol!! I love how British people say tacos
I love it too! ❤
Oh and a beer with a lime slice put inside the bottle. OMG! 😱
My mom would get so mad cause me and my siblings would always sneak out a chunk of "Abuelitas" and chow down on it in our rooms. They can be chopped up due to having wedge indentations on every disc.
The Aztec lords drank mole ... chili and cocoa (which was their money). Mole is often put over baked chicken. Huevos rancheros is for breakfast. Chili, flat corn tortilla, meat, beans, hash browns and eggs. I like mine with chicken and the eggs over hard. Half price early in the morning on week days ... if you aren't there by 7:30 it is full.
The Aztecs pioneered the consumption of cocoa/chocolate in any form
TexMex is awesome. I'm from Texas and grew up eating it. The Abueilita is very good and it is carried by most grocery stores.
I'm in Minnesota we have that as well. Super good.
@@LJBSullivan sometimes I just cut a piece and nibble it.
@@LJBSullivan Minnesota is beautiful but too damn cold.
Tex-mex is USA equivalent to British Indian food. Cultural food from a growing population adapted to our palates and adopted into our culture.
Mole sauce can be bought in jars at the market, but if you make it from scratch it's a long process, there can be over 30 ingredients. and almost all need toasted separately before blending. But taste so good.
Molé is amazing. It’s like a subtle nutty chocolate chicken sauce. You must try it at least once in your life in an enchilada or over some sautéd chicken.
For easy taco recipies, I would watch some of Rick Bayles videos on tacos. He has lived in Mexico, runs a number of Mexican restaurants and many books on the topic.
Chocolate mole sauce is amazing, especially on grilled chicken.
Mole is a savory chocolate sauce. DELICIOUS!!!
a very basic explanation of enchiladas is this :
imagine a simple cheese, meat, or (rarely) bean burrito baked while smothered/submerged in a gravy or sauce. it is heaven.
the issue you could potentially run into making Tex Mex is getting the spices and chilies. The RUclips channel ArnieTex has some really good easy recipes on it.
I use ArnieTex for his version of carne guisada.
@@tvc1848 Yep I've used his, added some of my flair to it, and it turned out great. Dude has a lot of good vids.
The chocolate in mole just adds a slight bitter undertone that really compliments the spiciness of the peppers in the sauce, omg, soooooo good 🤤
Exactly, just like the use of ground coffee in a rub for meat, or used in red-eye gravy
Doesn’t make it taste like coffee, just adds a bitter undertone to the flavors
As an American, my first meal in England was chili con carne. I was literally wondering what happened to the flavor.
Why ? Would you choose that to be your first meal in England ?
@@shawnanderson6313 I didn’t say I chose. I was staying with a family and that’s what they served me for dinner.
@@ScottieRC Is you family English ? What a weird choice on their part if they are.
@@shawnanderson6313 no. These were Brits who were trying to think of what an American may want to eat. 😁
LOL Fair enough! Otherwise I hope you had a good time in England!@@ScottieRC
Oaxacan mole is amazing. It has dark chocolate in it. We usually eat it with rice and corn tortillas.
Texan here we would love for ya'll to come and enjoy Tex-Mex but please also try the Authentic Mexican and other southern bordered countries delicious foods as well. Ask the locals for the area you go to for the best foods here. The big chains are not the spots to hit if you want some delicious mouth watering foods. Usually its the family owned mom and pop spots that have the best. Much Love from Texas.
To be clear, Taco Bell is not Mexican food or Tex-Mex. It's just fast food. Tex-Mex is really good!
When you visit the USA make DANG sure you visit the south. Legit THE BEST flavors you can get on the planet! 👍 👍
the chocolate in the mole is unsweetened dark chocolate...
We don't put Nesquick in our mole. We use premium dark chocolate.
Jolly and Korean Englishman are great shows. I make a lot of enchiladas and posole all the time. Mole is very yummy! The best peppers IMO are the Hatch’s Green Chiles and they come from New Mexico. Great reaction! 😊👏🏽👍🏽
And they are in season now! 😋
At 2:02 and 2:30 when u said nachos, those aren't nachos. There basic Tex-Mex Torilla Chips served with Guacamole and various salsas. Also there is a big difference between Tex-Mex and Mexican. Mexican is more convenient but Spicier, Tex-Mex is more Quality with flavor but mostly in the state of Texas
You guys are so cute. Cooking tip: Keep it simple. Both tacos and biscuits were made by working class people for working class people. It was just good filling food. Nowadays, there are posh versions and there are exotic versions (ignore these at first). If it's hard work then that's the wrong recipe for you. Have fun, kids.
TexMex in Texas is absolutely the best food on the planet.
Great video. Love Jolly. Ollie is so funny. You never know what he's going to say. Lol! Thank you
Being born, and raised in Texas… Tex-Mex is basically my default food. I mean yes we absolutely have barbecue here but barbecue is a lot of work and I’m not doing that every day or even every week… But I will cook and eat some form of TexMex several times a week.
I got a great recipe for enchiladas with scratch-made red sauce from the RUclips channel Rachel Cooks With Love. She walks you thru each step & makes it so easy. They came out beautifully. Using only American cheese was a bit salty for me so I opted for half American/half sharp cheddar & instead of using raw onions, I decided to caramelize mine. But that red sauce.....
She's also got a wonderful tutorial on making tamales. which I've learned to cook faster in either an instant pot or in the microwave (bc patience, after 8+ hours of cooking smelling the aromas wafting in the air, is something I do NOT have 😂).
SO GOOD! The enchiladas mole, enchiladas verdes (green sauce), the enchiladas roja (red sauce) are so good! It is hatd to describe but the food looks fantastic. I have been to Mexico many times and the food is just wonderful!
Those aren’t nachos, they’re just basket tortilla chips. Lol. Nachos are a dish with have many toppings placed on them or eaten with atleast cheese on the chips.
I live in New Mexico and we don't really eat Tex-mex we actually eat Mexican food..We are known for our home grown green chile from Hatch, New Mexico. Yummy 😋
Same in San Diego. We tend to pass on Tex Mex.
I've lived in New Mexico/West Texas style and Dallas. I'm familiar with both styles of Mexican Food. I really like both of them.
As a 5th generation Texan and of Mexican decent, as well as a life long Austin, TX area native, this restaurant did not impress.
This is actually “Hipster” Tex-mex. There are enormously better Tex-Amex around, especially here in Texas.
First rule of Tex-Mex & New Mexican food. Sadly, the more it looks like "dog food" the better it's going to taste. It means all of those flavors have melded together.
I never thought i would love watching people react to people trying the food i grew up with lol
I have an easy recipe, I worked with this lady that was from Texas and she made these awesome enchiladas! You get ground beef, season it with onion and garlic, or you can use onion and garlic powder while browning meat. Drain hamburger. Then you mix in a can or two of of chili or leftover chili, salsa and cheddar cheese, stir until bubbly. Spoon meat into a tortilla, roll up fit as many as you can in a dish, then pour any leftover chili on top and sprinkle with more cheddar cheese. Put in the oven for a few minutes till cheese is bubbling. Serve with Mexican rice, refried beans and tortilla chips. 🥰😋😋
It's very true though, gotta have the best hot sauce, queso, guacamole, Pico dialo, chips and home made tortillas. Then whatever you ordered and your good to go. 😁 Speaking from a native Texan.👍
Pico de Gallo, lol. It means the beak of a rooster.
@@lokasenna32 yes, I shortened the word just like I didn't use the hyphen between Tex-Mex. Besides, I was swyping and kept right on going. Apologies!!!
@@Kamama21 Sorry I guess I was being salty. 🥲
Crispy ("brittle") tacos are Tex-Mex. You don't usually encounter them in Mexico or even other border areas except at chains like Taco Bell.
Also let's clear up the issue of mole. While the most common and popular version of mole in the US has chocolate in it, there are many Mexican regional mole versions that don't. What they all have in common is ingredients like seeds and chiles.
"Green tomatoes" are tomatillos, a different thing that resembles small green tomatoes but aren't.
Tomatillos are actually a berry (in the gooseberry family), but they actually look like a small green tomato with a paper like husk covering it.
Those are wonderful like veggies. ❤
This food with a margarita or a few Mexican beers and you're in heaven. Me encanta esta comida
Negra Modelo, the perfect cerveza with Mexican food for me 🍺
2:05 Not nachos, just chips and salsa. Nachos would be a prepared dish with tortilla chips and toppings (something like cheese, salsa, peppers, guacamole, and meat) .
My family usually just makes enchiladas using corn tortillas, cheese, onions, and red chile. You can also make enchiladas using flour tortillas and green chile. They're all delicious.
I think you guys would love enchiladas, tamales, and posole. Not sure how many Mexican restaurants you have over there, but I'd love to see you do a reaction video trying those Mexican staples. I grew up with the authentic, homemade versions of those items and learned how to cook them at a young age. I'd also like to see you try chiles rellenos.
Chilis Rellenos💚
I live here in Austin. Never tried this place till i saw Jolly's video. I assure you, it is as wonderful as they say it is. It has become one of our favorite go to places.
Taco Bell tacos are real tacos. They may not be the top quality, but they are still tacos. I bet all those people who say they're not real tacos have, many times, gone through the Taco Bell drive-thru, then sat in their car in the parking lot while they crushed a bag full of their "not real" tacos. It's a guilty pleasure for everyone.
Nah they ain’t. Gringo tacos is what they are
Also abuelita is NOTHING like nesquick LOL
When you find GOOOOOOD Tex Mex in Texas, you don't ever stray too far from it! Good food and good margaritas... you cannot go wrong!
Ollie's "Nesquick" comments are hilarious but potentially offensive to Mexicans. Besides cacao (chocolate), Mole has a lot of chili and other spices that gives it a complex flavor. Using Abuelita hot-chocolate by Nestle is a shortcut, a lot of my Mexican friends consider that as sacrilege do not use that in their mole sauce.
They travel with 3 camera guys & a sound guy. The cameramen are Luke & Ducky & the sound guy is Alex. He was in the Texas BBQ video
I just came back to watch The Office reaction and its gone?
I can send you some recipes. Where do I send them?
Easy Tex-Mex tacos:
1.Brown some ground beef
2.Drain liquid off of it as it cooks down.
3. Throw it a chopped onion.
4. About a tablespoon of minced garlic.
5. Slice a bell pepper. Cook everything together.
6. Add Taco seasoning
7. Brown some flour tortillas.
8. Fill the tortilla with the ground beef and vegetables that you cooked.
9. Enjoy with a spoon full of sour cream and your salsa of choice
Bell pepper?? 😰
Flour tortillas? Nah, corn tortillas.
@@KarenLWhiting 🙀I didn’t even see the flour tortillas on the list, I was thrown by the bell peppers.
@@dayeti6794
Right?!? Lol
My wife grew up on California, and since her mother didn't cook, learned to look from her Mexican neighbors and friends from Texas. I got a good one, boys.
We don't typically put cheese in mole, we do put dark chocolate in Oaxacan mole and yes, it is delicious.
A REALLY GOOD DESSERT is DEEP FRIED ICE CREAM.
If you want crispy tacos you fry them in corn oil soft you put in the hot oil flip it put it on paper towels to drip the oil off and pat the oil off with paper towels if you dont want to much oil fry the ground beef with salt pepper cumin and garlic not to much salt only where you can taste it and cumin less then the salt i like cumin so and throw a few pieces of onions fry it up and thats it ofcourse chop lettuce tomates how you like long strip cut thin tomates and shredd mild cheddar cheese or.mozzarella cheese mix them up or make two mild cheddar 2 mozzarella fill your taco and eat
Texican food! I’m from Texas, and I love it!
That was pretty funny about the Nesquick.😂
Ya'll should have ordered mole, and other enchiladas. Cuz what you got at the tex mex place was fajitas which you could get at chili's or TGI friday.
I haven’t been there- but texmex places like this are everywhere, especially in south Texas.
When y’all visit Texas my family and I will happily treat y’all to the most authentic texmex that the locals eat!
The best of the best! I'll pick Tex Mex over any other restaurant.
Tex-mex is not real Mexican food. The only place outside of Mexico with good authentic Mexican food is out here in California.
@@BoneheadGames-q4nclearly you ain’t ever been to El Paso then
@@BoneheadGames-q4n Yeah no shit TexMex is its own thing which is why it has its own name genius.
@@Alex-kd5xc I'm from Mexico and now live in California. Tex mex is garbage.
@@BoneheadGames-q4n That's kind of an insane comment. Most of the west coast including Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia have substantial Latino populations for the same reason that California does: Migrant labor. There are TONS of authentic Mexican restaurants around here. Also, the secret is the nastier looking the taco truck the better the food. From my place here in Vancouver Washington (just north of Portland) I can _walk_ to fifteen decent Mexican places, from pretty high-end authentic Baja food to a little shack by a Shell station run by two Abuelas who just make tamales that are to die for. $2 each and the best ones are the cheese and chili ones, which they always seem to sell out of before I get there. (They mostly serve the lunch crowd and almost always run out of everything by 5:00.)
77 year old Texas grandpa here. for what it's worth, i have just always referred to it as _"Texican."_
Mole differs so much between households as everyone has a recipe that is passed down for ages. They all have one thing in common and that’s Mexican chocolate which is different than chocolate you know. Mexican chocolate has zero sugar and relies on its freshly made taste. This chocolate is near the exact production time meaning it’s made quickly shaped, packaged, and used within a day. It’s actually bitter as it’s almost pure cocoa nibs. It’s more astringent than average chocolate hence why it’s a chocolate added to things not eaten by itself.
Mole is a combination of various spices, maybe meat, and definitely chocolate. It takes time to make right as it can’t hit boil and make it nice and velvety.
The thing with mole is that if you like BBQ sauce on things, you will like mole sauce. It is got that same vibe.
... and yes Millie, you did eat authentic tacos. The corn (crunchy) tacos are the originals tacos that made their way to the US. Soft tacos are a relatively new thing for Taco Bell and other restaurants (and are a kind of Americanized thing). My family had been making soft tacos for about 20 years before Taco Bell sold them. We called them California Tacos. We do them a little differently in that we fry the flour tortilla and add lots and lots of guacamole and/or avocados and sour cream to the regular taco ingredients.
Really enjoyed your reaction to this video!! I live 5 minutes from that Eldorado Cafe in Austin and it's one of my favorite places to go. That mole sauce on the enchiladas is AMAZING!!! My favorite thing there. And that last salsa they tried, the yellow one, is truly hot!!! I grew up in Texas and love spicy food, but that yellow sauce, the "scorpion", is too hot even for me. But definitely love the Eldorado Cafe!!
Nesquick is coco an sugar. Most times something is asking for both, you can add up the amounts an replace both with nesquick. I made brownies last week that way because I was out of coco. They were good.
Not many Mexican or TexMex restaurants do it, but a long time ago, I had gone to a Mexican restaurant, and the queso sauce came with refried beans in it. So you would dip your chip in it and have queso/refried beans as an appetizer. It was such a good combination. Sometimes, I remember to recreate it while at a Mexican restaurant, lol.
Mole….yum!! I am disappointed they didn’t get sopapillas as dessert.
I live about 15 minutes from Eldorado Cafe. It’s a popular place in Austin and very good. The mole enchiladas (with the chocolate) is fantastic and my favorite thing there. Tbh it’s not really Tex Mex. If I remember correctly, they (Eldorado) consider themselves Mexican inspired comfort food. Tex Mex purists are probably annoyed by it being categorized as Tex Mex. However anyone wants to classify it though it’s fantastic! In fact I need to get back there soon. I haven’t tried that Thunder Rosa taco and it looks delicious!
It's ironic that there are Tex-Mex purists
Everyone says Taco Bell is tex mex food, that’s how terrible it is
This was free publicity for the restaurant. Brilliant.
In Texas.....we say.....taaaa coss not tay cos
if you go to a Tex-Mex place and don't leave feeling like your stomach is about to explode, you've failed
I can only imagine how much that costs, because Tex-Mex these days isn't as cheap as it use to be. Those ingredients look AMAZING! You'll only find this in a restaurant in Cali, AZ, NM, and TX. Or at someone's abuela's house.
bull. Mexicans moved to all parts of the country and started restaurants,
@@tofargone16 Yes but the ingredients are hard to come by in parts of the US
The mole is sweet and spicy.
Well, now I want enchiladas.
Y’all, I lived in the UK for two years and I definitely made tacos all the time. And this was in 2004-2006! I’m sure there’s more available in the supermarkets now!
I grew up in the northeast. I’d never heard of a Taco. When I moved to the Midwest the 1st ‘Mexican’ food I ever ate was a hard shell at Taco Bell. This was back in 71 so their food was a lot better than what they serve now. I’ve since moved back to New England but I will admit that 2 or 3 times a year I’ll stop and get a couple of hard shells.
I just love Jolley's videos -- and Mille
From my childhood on my favorite dinner is home made tacos. Nothing fancy. I brown up hamburger. Grate up Med cheddar cheese. Shred Iceburge lettuce and dice tomatos. Melt lard in a heavy pan. Keep on a med heat. I prefer corn tortillas and place on in as it starts to bubble I flip it and then fold in half and fry to stiff which should get it crispy. Drain on a paper towel and to make the taco just layer in the beff first then the rest of the goodies and top with a favorite salsa. I do make my own green salsa with Tomatillos. It pretty easy to find recipes to make your own. I can it up each summer red and green salsas.
Texan here. Love our TexMex!
TexMex food is delicious!! TexMex is a kind of fusion food..I don’t care!!! I know that people will start an argument and make comparisons to real Mexican food..I’ve traveled and had food from around the world!!! Taco Bell is one food that I can’t wait to come back to!! (Sadly their menu sucks now) All I can say is…appreciate!! There are amazing foods all around the world!! From high end to street foods, I can’t tell the difference!! To be honest, the best foods are from homemade cooking!!! If someone gave me a choice for a homemade dinner or a restaurant..?? Best believe, I will go for homemade cooking!!!
J..E..T..S...JETS, JETS, JETS!!!!!! Hahaha!!! Tex-mex, for someone not used to it, is a once in a while treat. Always up for it, cause it's always good eats!! In west-central Pennsylvania, it's not hard to find it. But, it's incredibly hard to find truly good tasting.
I live in Houston, Tx my fav tex mex is from Pappasitos or Los Cucos. But their are TexMex restaurants everywhere in Texas.
I make Mole. Its my husband's favorite thing! I use a jar sauce that is like a paste and you add chicken broth, a tablet (big) of Mexican chocolate which has cinnamon in it, and peanut butter. Soooooo good. I roast chicken and the mole sauce goes over the chicken served with Mexican style rice and home made refried beans. Corn tortillas to stuff the ingredients in. If you are interested I can send you the ingredients you probably can't get there.
Actually I don't think it's chocolate it's supposed to be lard or something like that.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld no, it's definitely chocolate.
Tock-o. Not, tack-o. 🙂
Queso is a cheese sauce.
You notice they added the guacamole, which kind of holds everything together, so it is not quite as messy.
meat of your choice either ground (mince) or cut into small pieces. diced onion, cilantro (coriander) fresh squeezed lime. guacamole (real mexican guac is a thin sauce and not a thick dip) sour cream. a plain flour (or corn) tortilla is grilled on both sides with a little oil before you assemble the taco. personally grill the flour tortilla and then spread a thin layer of refried beans and use it as a wrapper around a hard taco. it helps keep the hard taco together and not get messy while still getting the crunch. *credit: taco bell.
Flour tortilla???
Guys, just FYI: The chips are tortilla chips, not nachos. Nachos is a dish made using tortilla chips, but the terms are not interchangeable. :)
I want to stress the level of importance La Abuelita is to any Latino-American kitchen.. We practically get it in our baby bottle's 😅
I live in Austin. The thing is there’s a Tex-Mex restaurant on every corner and everyone has their favorite! I was eating Tex-Mex as some of my first meals as a kid. Most of the restaurants all have similar menus, but every where tastes different. If you ever make it to Texas (Austin specifically) I’d be happy to give you some recommendations.
Hot, homemade crunchy taco is the best. You get the hot crunchy tortilla shell with the cold lettuce and cold cheese mmmmhhh
My fave Tex-Mex food is fajitas. Mostly due to how much I love beef but the other is how many types of meats you can use with them.
Side note: I go insane when there's freshly made tortilla chips straight from the fire. There is nothing like fresh tortilla chips you can down with a nice drink.