Chef y fundador de Maizajo, restaurante especializado en maíz y cocina mexicana - La Liste 2026
Course Content
Course Content
2. Corn Theory and Processing
3. Nixtamalization
4. Basic Corn Preparations
Free
5. Filled and Rolled Preparations
6. Salsas
7. Beef Brisket Birria Taco
8. Mushroom and Cheese Birria Taco
9. Beef Tongue Taco
10. Zucchini Blossom Quesadilla
11. Test your knowledge
About this Course
The taco as a cultural expression built from corn, salsa, and fire
In this course, Chef Santiago Muñoz Moctezuma offers a direct and grounded approach to corn as the foundation of Mexican cuisine. Through its history, its connection to the milpa system, and its everyday presence on the table, this course introduces you to the ingredient that sustains one of the world’s richest culinary traditions.
Recipes are developed through hands-on practice and solid technical criteria, working with salsas, beans, and classic Mexican tacos as complete culinary structures. Brisket, tongue, mushrooms, and zucchini blossoms are combined with masa and salsa to create tacos where balance, respect for the ingredient, and proper cooking time truly make the difference.
By the end of this online course, you will be able to:
- Understand the taco as a complete culinary structure
- Work with corn and masa from both a technical and cultural perspective
- Integrate salsas and fillings as part of a single, cohesive balance
- Apply slow-cooking and low-temperature confit techniques in traditional preparations
- Transfer the foundational principles of the taco to other culinary contexts
What's included?
- 2hs 30 min HD video
- 34 lessons
- 13 recipes
- Recipe Book
- 1 Quiz
- Certificate
- English, Español (VO)
- English, Español, Italiano (BETA), Français (BETA), Português (BETA), Deutsch (BETA)
Course Recipes
Meet your Instructor
Chef and founder of Maizajo, a restaurant specializing in corn and Mexican cuisine – La Liste 2026
Chef and founder of Maizajo in Mexico City, a Mexican cuisine restaurant centered on corn. Recognized by Food & Wine Best New Chefs 2024 and the La Liste 2026 Discovery Gem Award.
Building a Taco: From the Ingredient to the Technique
What you'll learn
The course begins with corn and its role in Mexican food culture, establishing the cultural and technical context that gives meaning to every preparation that follows. From there, you will work on essential elements such as raw salsas, tatemado (fire‑roasted) salsas, and grilled salsas, then move on to refried beans and a selection of classic tacos.
Each recipe is approached from preparation to finishing and service, understanding the taco as a precise combination of texture, fat, acidity, and heat.
In this course, beyond the recipes themselves, you will also learn a range of culinary techniques that you will be able to apply again and again.
The techniques covered include:
- Fire-roasting (tatemado) vegetables
- Nixtamalization Technique
- Preparing salsas with different levels of cooking
- Technical use of fresh and dried chiles
- Preparation of traditional marinades (adobos)
- Long, slow cooking and low-temperature confit
- Controlled browning of meats and vegetables
- Professional assembly and finishing of tacos and quesadillas
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