Tasting Tucson: Mixing enchilada sauces at Salsa Verde Restaurant [Video]

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Waking up, this next stop in eastside Tucson is all about warming up with Mexican comfort food.

There’s also a heartwarming story of a husband and wife who’ve succeeded by making dishes they grew up with as kids.

We sat down with the owners of Salsa Verde Restaurant on Pantano and Broadway, and later, we saw their way to make red and green enchiladas.

In her small village in Sonora, Mexico, Reyna Davila helped her family raise cattle and make milk and cheese to supplement their income.

She said those were the seeds of a career in food that didn’t full grow until she moved to Tucson and got her own taste of life in a busy commercial kitchen.

“Working at McDonald’s was a huge lesson,” Davila said. “I learned how a drive-thru works, focusing on speed and precision.”