Each national cuisine has dishes that are considered her business card. This borscht and vareniki with cherries in Ukraine, pancakes and pies in Russia, Caucasian shawarma and shish kebab, French onion soup and Belarusian draniki. To similar culinary delights the tortilla - a flat cake from corn or wheat flour concerns also. This is a traditional dish in Mexico, without which, in fact, there is not a single meal.
Variety of species
Served usually tortilla with stuffing. It makes rolls and pies, envelopes and tubes. As a filler is used chicken with beans and sauce, beef with cheese and tomatoes. Complemented with a tortilla filled with different salads of fruits and vegetables and a special pasta made of tomatoes, avocado, onion and pepper. Eat flat cakes and with the first dishes. They are used even instead of forks, picking up pieces of food and sauce. Used tortilla with filling and as a basis for chips - not potato, and corn. How to prepare these and many other delicacies, you will learn from this article. The most important thing is to remember the hostesses who want to introduce the dish if not in the daily, then the festive diet: the tortilla with the filling must necessarily be acute. With great pleasure they will eat your homemade and chicken soup with sliced triangles with tortillas. Pieces are fried and put in broth, along with grated cheese, sour cream and cubes of avocado pulp, which in Mexico are very fond of.
Breakfast in Mexican
So, with what begin the classic recipes with tortilla. Filling can be different, but the preparation of tortillas is usually the same. Ingredients are: 300 g melenkoy corn flour and wheat top grade, about 1 teaspoon of salt, 30 grams of melted tallow or margarine, water (300-350 g). Both types of flour, salt and fat combine and mix, so that the consistency resembles crumbs of bread or biscuits. 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 frying pan over high heat. You can take flour and only one kind. It is important that the blanks do not get over dried, otherwise they will not wrap up anything. So, we are interested in traditional Mexican recipes with tortilla. The filling for breakfast looks like this: an omelette or scrambled eggs, slices of tomatoes and pieces of hot pepper. Naturally, you, dear hostesses, can spread on flat bread and jam with butter, and pate, and caviar some. And everything will be delicious!
Chicken with sauce
Mexican tortilla with stuffing is quite suitable for a full-fledged independent dish. Especially if you cook it according to the following recipe. Components of the meal: 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 bulbs, a little leaves of salad, sour cream, tomato sauce sharp or the same ketchup. You can replace it with home adjika. Or a thick sharp cure. Cut the onions, peppers, tomatoes and fry in vegetable oil with cubes or straws. Salt and pepper. Add a few cloves of garlic, finely chopping them. Pre-cooked chicken fillets, too, cut and mix with vegetables. Distribute the filling in half of each cake, pepper, grate with grated cheese and cover with a second half of tortilla. Warm them in a frying pan or microwave to make the cheese melt. Spread cakes on salad leaves and serve with separately poured sour cream or tomato sauce.
Fruit and vegetable snack: preparation
Spicy tortillas - tortillas with stuffing - from radishes and avocados will taste to those who prefer to eat vegetable food and get from the food not only pleasure, but also a large amount of vitamins. Take 5-6 tortillas, 1 egg, a handful of cumin seeds, about 750-800 g of avocado, onion, better shallot. If the usual bulb, then it, when you cut, you need to pour boiling water, and then squeeze, so that bitterness has gone away. 1 large lemon or 3 medium limes, spices - ground coriander and cumin to taste. Plus a kilogram of red and yellow tomatoes, 200 grams of radishes, a bunch of green onions and a few cloves of garlic. Another juice of lime or lemon, salt and sugar to taste.
Fruit and vegetable snack: cooking
In the beginning, according to this recipe, every Mexican tortilla cake (with a filling we'll sort out later) should be coated with whipped protein and sprinkled with a mixture of salt and cumin. Put them on a baking tray, oiled, then bake in a preheated oven until golden brown. Peel and slice the avocado pulp. Then mash with a fork, sprinkle with lime juice or lemon and spices. Crumble finely radish with tomatoes, green onions and garlic. If desired, also cut chopped chilli. Salt, sprinkle with sugar, season with lemon juice. On a half of each tortilla put first the tomato mass, then the avocado paste. And cover the second half with a flat cake. Eat such a dish is usually hot.
Meat with cheese and mayonnaise
Very delicious you get a flat cake, a recipe (with a filling) which includes meat under mayonnaise. Things to do: 200 grams of tomatoes slices and lightly put out in vegetable oil. 100-150 g of hard cheese grate, combine with tomatoes, season with mayonnaise, pepper. Spread the mass over the finished lozenges. On top, put the salad leaves on the large pieces, torn to pieces. Now you need a meat ingredient. 200-300 grams of boiled fillet cut into small pieces, fry to crust, pepper well and distribute on tortillas, laying into pieces of salad. Top with crocheted marinated cucumbers. You can replace it with gogoshara or pickled pepper. Roll cakes rolls, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake in a hot oven for 15 minutes. A spicy and hearty snack will become your favorite delicacy for your home!
Bacon filling for tortilla: components
Another dish with corn tortillas, for sure, will cause a storm of enthusiasm among those who love meat in its various forms. You need 1 kg of pork tenderloin, 300-400 g of bacon, 300 g of ketchup or tomato sauce, several limes. A couple of onion heads, a garlic head, a hard cheese (200 grams is enough), ground black pepper, salt, spices, 40 grams of wine vinegar. Plus a couple of hot pepper pods. Of course, add it at will, because the dish can get too sharp.
Preparation
Half of onions (one or one and a half heads), 5-6 cloves of garlic and pepper pods chop in a blender. Pour in the vinegar, add salt and sugar, spices to taste. Pork cut into small slices and marinate in this mixture for 4-5 hours. Fry until the bacon is cut into cubes. When the fat is drowned, you can take it out. In the same fat, put the pickled meat, add ketchup or sauce and fry on both sides. Chop a small bunch of parsley, grate the cheese, half-rings thinly cut the remaining onions and lime. Combine both types of meat, mix them, spread them together with the sauce. Top with onions, greens, cheese. And decorate with lime slices. To such tortilla is served ketchup with garlic or paprika, adjika. All the varieties of the dish are washed down with the famous tequila, which, however, is perfectly replaced by a glass of good red wine.