What is different from kosher and treif (non-kosher) Mexican food? There is NO cheese with meat dishes because these cannot be mixed together. According to the Torah, it states three times that it is forbidden to cook a kid in its mother’s milk. One time refers to cooking the meat of a kosher animal (not fowl) with the milk of a kosher animal, one to eating this mixture, and one to receiving benefit from it. The term milk here includes dairy products.

The Sages forbade eating meat and milk together even if the mixture was not cooked. They also forbade eating fowl (chicken, duck, etc) with milk. Furthermore, they ordained that one must wait between one and six hours, depending on one’s custom after eating meat or fowl before eating dairy.

They usually make beans with lard (animal shortening) and put shredded cheese in tacos or chicken dishes. We can either have all dairy dishes or meat dishes. Cheese enchiladas, nachos with cheese sauce, etc. are popular dairy dishes while chicken fajitas, burritos, tasquitos are popular meat dishes. Vegetarian dishes are also popular and can be eaten either with cheese or meat.