Durango is strong influence here from that region. One of the best known dishes, caldillo duranguense, is essentially a hearty beef soup with roasted green chili peppers. Gorditas are a particularly popular and important food historically, as they were a mainstay for field hands who found the pockets of corn or wheat convenient for carrying and eating meats and sauce outside of the home. Although found in other parts of Mexico, tacos de tripe (intestines) are particularly popular here. Asado rojo de puerco, known as asado de boda in other parts of north-central Mexico is popular. Tamales are popular but they
Menudo Gitano often used colored. It is served hot in a clay pot. Menudo Gitano The "Menudo Gitano" (also called Andalusian tripe) is a dish prepared from tripe in Andalusian cuisine, this dish uses chickpeas in its preparation. It is a winter dish, served hot and traditionally in a clay pot. This recipe is already mentioned by Juan de Altamira in his book ""The Newest Kitchen Art"", in the early nineteenth century. This dish often used to the chickpeas ratio of four to one, i.e., that for every kilo means chickpea two pounds of tripe are added. In preparing this dish during