What Rajas con crema means
Rajas con crema is a Mexican main dish name of Spanish origin meaning "chile strips with cream". It is built from Spanish rajas (strips, splits) and con crema (with cream). It is pronounced RAH-has kon KREH-mah, and it is most associated with central Mexico.
A raja is a split or strip of anything, but on a Mexican menu it almost always means roasted poblano cut into ribbons.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The plated dishes, most named for a cooking method or a place. Cochinita pibil is pork cooked in a píib, the Maya earth oven. Barbacoa gave English the word barbecue. Chiles en nogada is named for the walnut sauce that covers it.
