TUNA WITH A DRY ADOBO, PINTO BEANS AND BABY HEIRLOOM TOMATOES

What could be more Mexican? Fish accompanied by three Mexican culinary gifts to the world - avocados, tomatoes and beans. Adobos are mostly wet. The mixtures vary, but they include a number of different dried chillies and often cinnamon, cloves, oregano, maybe annato, pepper, cumin. In the wet varieties, the dried chillies are softened on a griddle, then immersed in water to rehydrate. In these less common dry versions, the dried chillies and ground to a fine powder with the other spices and then rubbed into the fish (or chicken, pork or beef) before cooking. The local avocados are gorgeous at the moment - incredibly buttery and decadent as chocolate, another gift from Mexico.

TUNA WITH A DRY ADOBO, PINTO BEANS AND BABY HEIRLOOM TOMATOES