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Pan de cazón
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Type Casserole
Place of origin Mexico
Region or state Campeche
Main ingredients Tortillas, shark
Ingredients generally used Black beans, tomato sauce

Pan de cazón (Spanish: "bread of small shark") is a casserole dish in Mexican cuisine that is prepared in the style of lasagna using layered tortillas with shark meat such as dogfish shark, black beans or refried black beans and spiced tomato sauce with habanero. It has been described as a specialty dish of the state of Campeche, Mexico.

The dish is typically prepared with blacktip shark in Campeche, and in Yucatan dogfish shark is typically used. Preparation traditionally involves boiling the shark meat in seasoned water and then shredding it.

Variations

The dish may be prepared with fish other than shark meat.

See also

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