Each national cuisine has dishes that are considered its hallmark. These are borsch and dumplings with cherries in Ukraine, pancakes and pies in Russia, Caucasian shawarma and barbecue, French onion soup and Belarusian pancakes. Tortilla, a tortilla made from corn or wheat flour, also belongs to such culinary delights. This is a traditional dish in Mexico, without which, in fact, not a single meal can do.
Variety of species
Usually served tortilla with a filling. Rolls and pies, envelopes and tubes are made of it. Chicken meat with beans and sauce, beef with cheese and tomatoes are used as a filler. Complemented with tortilla stuffed with different salads of fruits and vegetables and a special paste of tomatoes, avocados, onions and peppers. Eat cakes and with first courses. They are used even instead of forks, picking up pieces of food and sauce. Tortilla with a filling is used and as a basis for chips - not potato, but corn. How to cook these and many other delicacies, you will learn from this article. The most important thing is that you should remember the housewives who want to enter the dish if not in the everyday, then the festive diet: tortilla with filling must be sharp. It is with great pleasure that you will eat your homemade and chicken soup with triangular tortilla. Slices are fried and put in the broth, along with grated cheese, sour cream and cubes of avocado pulp, which Mexico loves very much.
Mexican breakfast
So, where do the classic tortilla recipes begin. The fillings can be different, but the preparation of cakes is usually the same. The ingredients are: 300 g of
fine cornmeal and premium wheat, about 1 teaspoon of salt, 30 g of melted lard or margarine, water (300-350 g). Combine and mix both types of flour, salt and fat, so that the consistency resembles bread crumbs or crackers. Pour in water and knead the dough. Divide it into equal parts, roll it into balls and cover with a clean towel. After an hour, roll the dough into thin cakes with a diameter of 25-30 cm. Bake in a pan over high heat. Flour can be taken and only one type. It is important that the workpieces do not turn out to be overdried, otherwise you will not wrap anything in them. So, we are interested in traditional Mexican tortilla recipes. Breakfast fillings look like this: scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs, sliced tomatoes and slices of hot pepper are placed on a cake. Naturally, you, dear hostesses, can spread with butter and pies and some caviar on cakes and jam. And everything will be delicious!
Chicken with Sauce
Mexican tortilla with a filling is quite suitable for a full-fledged independent dish. Especially if you cook it according to the following recipe. Food ingredients: 4 corn or wheat cakes, 350-400 g of ripe tomatoes, 300-350 g of Bulgarian yellow or red pepper, 250 g of hard cheese, 300 g of boiled chicken. And also one and a half onions, some lettuce leaves, sour cream, spicy tomato sauce or the same ketchup. You can replace it with
home adjika. Or a thick sharp leche. Dice onion, pepper, tomato and fry in cubes or julienne and fry in vegetable oil. Salt, pepper. Add a few cloves of garlic, chopping them finely. Cut pre-cooked chicken fillet and mix with vegetables. Spread the filling on the half of each tortilla, pepper, grind with grated cheese and cover with the second half of the tortilla. Heat them in a skillet or microwave to melt the cheese. Lay the cakes on lettuce leaves and serve with separately poured sour cream or tomato sauce.
Fruit and vegetable snack: preparation
Spicy tortillas - tortilla stuffed with radishes and avocados will be enjoyed by those who prefer to eat vegetable products and enjoy not only pleasure, but also a large amount of vitamins. Take 5-6 cakes, 1 egg, a handful of caraway seeds, about 750-800 g of avocado, onions, shallot. If the usual onion, then when you cut it, you need to pour boiling water, and then squeeze so that the bitterness is gone. 1 large lemon or 3 medium limes, spices - ground coriander and caraway seeds to taste. Plus a kilogram of red and yellow tomatoes, 200 g of radish, a bunch of green onions and a few cloves of garlic. Still lime or lemon juice, salt and sugar to taste.
Fruit and vegetable snack: cooking
First, according to this recipe, every Mexican tortilla cake (we’ll deal with the filling a bit later) should be coated with whipped protein and sprinkled with a mixture of salt and caraway seeds. Place them on a greased baking sheet, then bake in a preheated oven until golden brown. Peel and chop the flesh of the avocado. Then mash with a fork, season with lime or lemon juice and spices. Finely chop the radish with tomatoes, chives and garlic. If desired, put chopped hot peppers. Salt, sprinkle with sugar, season with lemon juice. On a half of each tortilla, first place the tomato mass, then the avocado paste. And cover with the second half of the tortillas. Such food is usually eaten hot.
Meat with cheese and mayonnaise
You will get very tasty tortilla tortilla, the recipe (with the filling) of which includes meat with mayonnaise. What you need to do: 200 g of tomatoes cut into slices and slightly stew in vegetable oil. 100-150 g of hard cheese, grate, combine with tomatoes, season with mayonnaise, pepper. Spread the mass on the finished cakes. From above, put lettuce leaves torn by hands on large pieces. Now you need a meat ingredient. Cut 200-300 g of boiled fillet into small slices, fry to a crust, pepper well and distribute over the tortillas, putting them into pieces of salad. Top with mugs of pickled cucumbers. Replace it with gogoshary or pickled pepper. Roll cakes with rolls, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake in a hot oven for about 15 minutes. A savory and satisfying snack will become your favorite delicacy!
Tortilla Bacon Stuffing: Components
Another dish with corn tortillas, for sure, will cause a storm of delight among those who love meat in its various forms. You will need 1 kg of pork tenderloin, 300-400 g of bacon, 300 g of hot ketchup or tomato sauce, several limes. A couple of onion heads, a head of garlic, hard cheese (200 grams is enough), ground black pepper, salt, spices, 40 g of wine vinegar. Plus a couple of hot pepper pods. Of course, add it at will, because the dish can turn out to be too spicy.
Cooking
Grind half onion (one or one and a half heads), 5-6 cloves of garlic and pods of pepper in a blender. Pour in vinegar, add salt and sugar, spices to taste. Cut the pork into small slices and marinate in this mixture for 4-5 hours. Sauté the bacon for a while, cutting it into cubes. When the fat is melted, you can take it out. Put pickled meat in the same fat, add ketchup or sauce and fry on both sides. Chop finely a bunch of parsley, grate the cheese, thinly chop the remaining onion and lime in half rings. Combine both types of meat, mix, spread on cakes with sauce. Sprinkle with onion, herbs, cheese on top. And garnish with lime slices. Ketchup with garlic or paprika, adjika is served to such a tortilla. All varieties of dishes of the famous tequila are washed down, which, however, will perfectly replace a glass of good red wine.