My favorite dish: Mote with Chicharrón

The person who has never tasted “mote con chicharron” has missed out on a delicacy. The combination between mote and chicharron is just heaven. You can even smell that delicious aroma from miles away. The best day of my life is when my mom prepared “mote con chicharron”. This dish has a characteristic mouth-watering smell. At the moment when you eat this dish, the crunchiness of the pork crackling is simply an incomparable flavor. 

Something that I really love about this dish is that is so easy to prepare. You only need a pork market, “mote” and that´s all. There`s always going to a place for “mote con chicharrón”, whether you are full or starving. I remember the first time that I prepared this dish with my mom. My mom was looking at me every time because I couldn´t stop eating the pork crackling; my face gave me away because I smelled like pork crackling and my hands were buttery and salty. 

I couldn’t explain how “mote con chicharron” tastes like. I mean, it doesn´t taste like “fritada” because for fritada it is needed a boneless rib and for “mote con chicharron” is pork market. Futhermore, both are different parts of the pork so, they don´t have neither the same taste nor the same consistency. I´d dare to say that “mote con chicharrón” is much tastier than “fritada”. Any time that I feel sad or stressed, I buy or prepare a “mote con chicharrón”.  Eating this dish makes me feel better and in a good mood. As people say: full belly, happy heart :)