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You won’t want to share the chicken enchiladas from Alamexo Cantina

Dish of the Week • Pollo con pipian verde ($15.95)

(Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune) The chicken enchiladas with green chile & pumpkin seed salsa (Pollo Con Pipian Verde) at Alamexo Cantina in Salt Lake City.

The dishes at Alamexo Cantina are meant to be shared. But you’ll want to keep this one to yourself: the pollo con pipian verde enchiladas. That’s three locally made tortillas stuffed with a generous portion of shredded chicken on a bed of green chile and pumpkin seed salsa and topped with fresh cilantro, white onion and queso fresco.

Like all the entrées, it is served on an individual cast-iron skillet, mirroring the large comal, or griddle, used almost exclusively in the kitchen. Spend another $3 for the elotes — grilled corn, sweetened with lime aioli.

Alamexo Cantina • 1059 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City; 801-658-5859; Tuesday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; www.alamexocantina.com