Mexican Cheese Recipes

Mexican cooking is layered and vibrant — toasted chillies and charred aromatics built into salsas and slow-cooked dishes of real depth. When Mexican cooks work with cheese, they reach for dried chillies, cumin, lime, coriander, garlic and tomatillos, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, roasting, steaming and baking.

A concentrated hit of savoury, salty richness used to melt, gratinate, crumble or finish a dish. In this collection it's most often cooked with garlic, lime juice, ground cumin, smoked paprika, garlic powder and sour cream. The dishes here span mexican classics ready in as little as 10 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.