Morisqueta is a dish meal from Apatzingán Michoacan. The dish consists of cooked

rice Rice is the seed of the grass species '' Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera '' Zizania'' and '' Porteresia'', both wild and domesticat ...

, combined with beans, and served with a sauce of tomato, onion and garlic. It may contain cubes of ''adobera'', ''ranchero'' or fresh cheese, which melts. There are other sauces with pork or beef. It is accompanied with

totopo ''Totopo'', in Mexican cuisine, is a flat, round, or triangular corn item similar to a tortilla, that has been toasted, fried or baked, but it may be prepared with nixtamalized corn masa. Totopos are best known as originating from Zapotec peo ...

s, tostadas, or fried

taquito A taquito (, Spanish for "small taco"), tacos dorados,rolled taco, or flauta (, Spanish for "flute") is a Mexican food dish that typically consists of a small rolled-up tortilla that contains filling, including beef, cheese or chicken.Castro, R ...

s. In some places it is customary to serve morisqueta with aporreadillo (shredded, dried meat, fried with egg, cooked in a guajillo sauce with cumin). Morisqueta has a strong resemblance to Moros y Cristianos, since they use the same base of

and

beans A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes thr ...

. Another rice dish, consisting of white rice, onion and garlic, but no beans, meat or cheese, is also called ''morisqueta''. It is sometimes served with

cilantro Coriander (;

and

Serrano pepper The serrano pepper ('' Capsicum annuum'') is a type of chili pepper that originated in the mountainous regions of the Mexican states of Puebla and Hidalgo. The name of the pepper is a reference to the mountains ('' sierras'') of these region ...

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