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At La Victoria, near the gourmet San Juan Market, guisado de carnero is a lamb stew more closely resembling an Irish stew than a Mexican guisado, containing no chiles but lots of vegetables such as potatoes, carrots and squash.

Dining in the D.F.: Food and drink in Mexico's capital 2004

At La Victoria, near the gourmet San Juan Market, guisado de carnero is a lamb stew more closely resembling an Irish stew than a Mexican guisado, containing no chiles but lots of vegetables such as potatoes, carrots and squash.

Dining in the D.F.: Food and drink in Mexico's capital 2004

At La Victoria, near the gourmet San Juan Market, guisado de carnero is a lamb stew more closely resembling an Irish stew than a Mexican guisado, containing no chiles but lots of vegetables such as potatoes, carrots and squash.

Dining in the D.F.: Food and drink in Mexico's capital 2004

While the lamb meat itself is called carnero, the young animal is cordero and the older sheep Borrego or oveja.

A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008

While the lamb meat itself is called carnero, the young animal is cordero and the older sheep Borrego or oveja.

A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008

Ground lamb is carnero molido, and is a common ingredient in the cooking of the Lebanese immigrants to Mexico and their descendents.

A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008

Another specialty in the region is mixiotes de carnero, steamed, leaf-wrapped bundles of marinated lamb.

A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008

A lamb chop is chuleta de carnero or chuleta de cordero.

A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008

A lamb chop is chuleta de carnero or chuleta de cordero.

A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008

Here in Puebla, there is a saying that refers to the best meat and the best fish: del mar, el mero, y de la tierra, el carnero, which basically means that the best food from the ocean is the grouper and the best from the land is lamb.

A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008