Pan de cazón (
Spanish
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: "bread of small shark")
is a
casserole dish in
Mexican cuisine that is prepared in the style of lasagna using layered tortillas with
shark meat
Shark meat is a seafood consisting of the flesh of sharks. Several sharks are fished for human consumption, such as porbeagles, shortfin mako shark, requiem shark, and thresher shark, among others. Shark meat is popular in Asia, where it is ...
such as
dogfish shark, black beans or refried black beans and spiced tomato sauce with
habanero
The habanero (; ) is a hot variety of chili. Unripe habaneros are green, and they color as they mature. The most common color variants are orange and red, but the fruit may also be white, brown, yellow, green, or purple. Typically, a ripe hab ...
.
It has been described as a specialty dish of the state of
Campeche, Mexico.
The dish is typically prepared with
blacktip shark in
Campeche, and in
Yucatán
Yucatán (, also , , ; yua, Yúukatan ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán,; yua, link=no, Xóot' Noj Lu'umil Yúukatan. is one of the 31 states which comprise the federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 106 separate mun ...
dogfish shark is typically used.
Preparation traditionally involves boiling the shark meat in seasoned water and then shredding it.
Variations
The dish may be prepared with fish other than shark meat.
See also
*
List of casserole dishes
This is a list of notable casserole dishes. A casserole, probably from the archaic French word ''casse'' meaning a small saucepan, is a large, deep dish used both in the oven and as a serving vessel. The word is also used for the food cooked and s ...
*
List of Mexican dishes
References
Mexican cuisine
Casserole dishes
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