Tortilla is a thin Mexican flatbread made from wheat flour, like a thin Armenian lavash, in which a variety of fillings are wrapped. Today's post is about tortilla recipes and fillings.
Recipe content:
- Mexican Filled Tortilla - Secrets and Tips
- Tortilla: how to make a tortilla?
- Tortilla fillings recipes
- Mexican tortilla: recipe for cheese and sausage filling
- Video recipes
Nowadays, Mexican cuisine is very common. It is appreciated in many European countries for its nutritional value and taste. Almost all the treats were created by ordinary peasant families, who, as you know, have always loved nutritious and satisfying food. Therefore, when cooking, natural and high-calorie foods are used.
One of the many colorful and famous Mexican delicacies is the tortilla. It is a thin round cake made of wheat or corn flour. It is an excellent addition to vegetable or meat dishes. This cake is used in their homeland for a variety of treats such as burrito, fajitos, enchilada, tacos, quesadillas, etc. All kinds of products are wrapped in this cake, and the tortilla in its own form is often served in the form of bread. With its help, they hold pieces of meat, pick up sauce and salads. In this review, we will take a closer look at what kind of dish it is, learn how to make a tortilla cake at home, consider well-known fillings recipes and all the secrets of cooking.
Mexican Filled Tortilla - Secrets and Tips
- Instead of wheat flour, the use of corn is allowed. The cakes come out of it delicious and crispy.
- Corn flour is light yellow in color. It is used very little in our traditional cuisine, but the product is available in stores. Usually, corn flour is not very finely ground compared to wheat, it is somewhat similar to bran. But it is recommended to take more fine flour.
- Also, corn flour has lower sticky properties than wheat flour. Therefore, it is recommended to combine it with wheat flour in a 2: 1 ratio. The addition of wheat flour will allow the tortillas to roll out well and the tortillas will not fall apart.
- Cakes are fried only in a dry frying pan on both sides.
- Ready-made tortillas are served hot immediately after cooking.
- Prepare a dish with a vegetable, meat or fruit filling, while using pepper. That is, the filling is sprinkled with plenty of pepper. it must be sharp.
- Un-eaten tortillas can be wrapped tightly in plastic, tightly covering the edges and use them on the second day.
- Tortillas are stored in the refrigerator for 5 days.
- Chilled tortillas are sprinkled with water and fried again in a pan without oil or in the microwave and stuffed with your favorite toppings.
Tortilla: how to make a tortilla?
Having prepared a tortilla yourself, you can further vary and select a variety of fillings to suit your taste.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 270 kcal.
- Servings Per Container - 6 Tortillas
- Cooking Time - Prep 45 minutes, Cook 15 minutes, Cook 60 minutes
Ingredients:
- Corn flour - 1 tbsp.
- Wheat flour - 0.5 tbsp.
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon
- Warm water - 120 ml
Step by step cooking:
- Sift the cornmeal into a large container.
- Add salt and stir until the mixture is smooth.
- Pour vegetable oil into a glass of warm water (about 35-40 °) and shake with a fork.
- Pour the liquid into the flour and knead the dough.
- The dough may be a little runny, so add wheat flour in small portions to get a soft dough.
- Roll the dough into a ball, cover with a napkin and leave for half an hour at room temperature. It will turn out to be about 350 g.
- Then divide the dough into 6 parts, and roll each into balls.
- Put a dry frying pan (it is convenient to use a pancake) on the fire and heat it up.
- Place a plastic wrap on the table, on which place a ball of dough, and cover it on top with a bag.
- Press the ball with your palm to make a cake, and use a rolling pin to roll it into a round thin cake about 1-1.5 mm and 15 cm in diameter.
- Remove the top film, turn the cake over on the palm of your hand and remove the bottom sheet of polyethylene.
- Place it on a dry hot skillet and bake for 1.5-2 minutes on each side. The edges of the tortilla may curl up slightly. But such a slight swelling allows.
- A well-baked tortilla will turn a deep yellow color. As soon as you see that the tortilla has changed color, remove it from the pan and stack it on top of each other. Cover the cakes with a napkin and leave to cool.
- Then use your imagination, and start preparing the filling, which you put on the tortilla, fold it in half, roll it up and eat.
These Mexican ready-made tortillas are convenient to have on hand in the refrigerator. They will help out when you need to quickly prepare a lunch or a quick snack. You can take tortillas with you to a picnic as a semi-finished product for grilling treats.
Tortilla fillings recipes
The options for homemade tortilla fillings are limited only by meager imagination. There are countless of them and each time they can change to your taste. For example, tortillas can be filled with the following fillings:
- Boiled turkey, canned corn and cucumbers.
- Avocado, fried chicken fillet and lettuce.
- Boiled pork, tomatoes and nuts.
- Roast beef, grated cheese, garlic and spices.
- Korean carrots, fried rabbit and greens.
- Fried onions, cheese and tomato slices.
- Pork pork, cheese and pineapple.
- Fried mushrooms, green onions and fried eggplants.
- Canned peas, boiled eggs and soft cheese.
For example, here's a detailed recipe for making a simple filling for a tortilla.
Mexican tortilla: cheese and sausage filling
Mexican tortillas baked from yeast-free dough can be made with a variety of fillings, but in our country the most popular recipes are where sausage and cheese are combined.
Ingredients:
- Corn tortillas - 2 pcs.
- Soft cheese - 200 g
- Boiled sausage - 100 g
- Sweet pepper - 70 g
- Tomatoes - 1 pc.
- Greens (dill, onion, parsley) - 10 g
- Tomato ketchup - 2 tbsp l.
Step by step cooking:
- Cut the sausage into small cubes.
- Peel the bell peppers from seeds and partitions and chop finely.
- Wash the tomatoes, pat dry with a paper towel and cut. The size of the pieces is not important. It depends on your preference.
- Rinse the greens, dry and chop finely.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Although this is also not important, since it will eventually melt anyway.
- Collect the tortilla. On one half of the tortilla, lay out the products in layers on top of each other in any order, as long as the first and last layer is cheese. It will fasten and "seal" the filling.
- Sprinkle the filling with ketchup for juiciness. One cake takes about 1 tablespoon.
- Fold the tortilla in half and fry it in a dry skillet on both sides for about 1 minute per turn.
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