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Las Posadas

Nine nights of processions in Mexico that end with hot fruit punch, tamales and a piñata.

The girls observe another one smashing the piñata in a preposada at Mexico City
Photo: Yavidaxiu, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Las Posadas

For the nine nights before Christmas, Mexican neighbourhoods act out the search of Mary and Joseph for a place to stay. A procession goes from door to door singing and is turned away, until one house lets everyone in. Then the party begins. The hosts serve ponche, a hot punch of tejocotes, guava, sugarcane, apple and cinnamon, with tamales, buñuelos and atole. Children break a star-shaped piñata filled with fruit, peanuts and sweets.

The dishes

PunchHot fruit punch with cinnamon, served to everyone let in.TamaleThe food of the host house.BuñueloCrisp fried discs with syrup or sugar.AtoleWarm maize drink for a cold night.

More dishes made for Las Posadas

Champurrado 🇲🇽 Mexico and 1 moreThick Mexican hot chocolate drink made with corn dough and spices Drink, Breakfast, Snacks
About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Las Posadas" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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