Learn how to prepare a delicious “Discada” dish with Saltillense Pepe Ruiz as he prepares his award winning recipe, directly from his home in Coahuila.
Discada is a mixed meat dish popular across Northern Mexico. Discada is as spicy and flavorful as it is hearty. Watch cook-off champion Pepe Ruiz create this typical dish and learn how to cook it at your own home!
Where: The event will be streamed on this page.
discada
a coahuila specialty
Northern Mexico is home to the discada, a specialty barbecue style mixed meat dish. The name comes from the word disco: circular carbon steel plow plates have been given new life as open fire cooking tools for a cooking style unique as the chefs themselves. Each discada dish shows off the personality of its creator -and also vary by region. In Coahuila for example, discada is a popular meat and tomato dish.
While a typical discada is typically prepared in a large disco outdoors, you can also prepare it with a wok, or deep iron-cast skillet in your kitchen. Chef Pepe will teach us how.
how to join the class
1- optional: Prepare the following ingredients to make your very own discada at home.
2- a video on how to make a discada at home will be published here on September 15, at 4pm.
3- prepare your dish. Provecho!
meet the chef
José Ruiz Fernández, or “Pepe” as his friends and family know him, is an avid cook and has prepared many fantastic dishes for his visitors from Austin and around the world. Together with his wife Bibiana, Pepe has been an integral part of our successful sister cities relationship. His dedication to community, and curiosity for anything new and unusual makes for a great host and friend.
Thank you to our Mexico Partners, Pepe Ruiz and Bibiana Chapa for your time and expertise as well as the Comite Internacional de Ciudades Hermanas for your continuing support.
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