Tortilla - recipes for cakes and various fillings for every taste! Tortilla with sausage, cheese and herbs Tortilla with sausage and cheese.
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 recipes and toppings for tortillas.
Recipe content:
Currently very common Mexican cuisine... She is appreciated by many European countries for 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 independent form often served as bread. With its help, they hold pieces of meat, pick up sauce and salads. In this review, we will understand in more detail what kind of dish it is, we will learn how to make a tortilla cake at home, consider famous recipes fillings and all the secrets of cooking.
Filled Mexican Tortilla - Secrets & 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. In our traditional cuisine it is used very little, but the product is available in stores. Usually, corn flour is not very finely ground in comparison with wheat flour, it is somewhat similar to bran. But it is recommended to take more fine flour.
- Also, corn flour has lower stickiness 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 vegetable, meat or fruit filling, while always 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.
- The cooled tortillas are sprinkled with water and fried again in a pan without oil or in microwave oven and stuffed with your favorite toppings.
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 into a glass of warm water (about 35-40 °) vegetable oil 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 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 the palm of your hand 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.
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 a lettuce leaf.
- 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 eggplant.
- Canned peas, boiled eggs and soft cheese.
Mexican tortilla: cheese and sausage filling
Mexican tortillas baked from yeast-free dough can be prepared 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.
- 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 tbsp.
- Fold the tortilla in half and fry it in a dry skillet on both sides for about 1 minute per turn.
I always keep a box of ready-made tortilla in the fridge. These cakes help me out when someone unexpectedly comes to visit, but there is nothing to treat them with. Tortilla cakes can be used to quickly make a delicious hot appetizer with any filling. For the filling, you can take any boiled or smoked meat or sausage. Vegetables such as Bell pepper and tomatoes. From greens, you can use dill, parsley, green onions, various types of lettuce. The main binding ingredient for any filling is cheese, or rather a lot of cheese, and the rest is a matter of taste. Finely chop whatever is on hand, stack in layers and seal with cheese on both sides. The appetizer is ready!
Ingredients
- tortilla cakes - 2 pcs .__ NEWL__
- smoked sausage - 65 g__NEWL__
- cheese - 240 g__NEWL__
- tomato ketchup - 2 tbsp l .__ NEWL__
- parsley - 7-8 sprigs__NEWL__
- hot Tabasco sauce - a few drops__NEWL__
Recipe:
Grate the cheese finely (240 g). Divide it into about 4 pieces. Put a quarter of the cheese on half of the tortilla.
Finely chop the sausage (65 g), carefully place on top of the cheese.
For parsley, separate the leaves from the twigs, chop them and lay it on top of the sausage. Drizzle with ketchup and drizzle hot sauce Tabasco.
Cover everything with a layer of cheese.
Roll the cakes in half.
Fry the tortillas in a dry skillet on both sides, pressing tightly on the double-rolled tortillas so that the cheese inside the tortilla can melt, saturate and hold the filling. Cut ready-made tortillas in half, serve hot in two halves per serving.
Tortilla is a recipe that every housewife can reproduce with her own hands. There are two options for the dish: tortilla, corn or wheat with a variety of fillings, and Spanish tortilla, which is cooked in a frying pan from potatoes.
Tortilla - a recipe made from wheat flour - is not quite a traditional version of making tortillas, but it is very firmly entrenched in European cuisine. Fry the products in a dry frying pan, without adding oil. The recipe is similar to the preparation of Armenian thin lavash... The finished tortilla is used for cooking quick snacks with all kinds of fillings.
Ingredients:
- flour - 550 g;
- water - 220 ml;
- butter - 60 g;
- salt - 10 g.
Preparation
- Grate the butter, mix with flour and salt. You should get flour crumbs.
- Pour in warm water kneading soft lump.
- Leave the tortilla dough for half an hour.
- Divide the lump into parts, roll out thinly.
- Fry in a dry skillet on both sides.
Corn tortilla is a classic and very simple recipe. Every chef can cook cakes, they can be served with your favorite sauce or filled with a variety of fillings. Thanks to corn flour the products come out bright, fragrant and crispy, but the addition of wheat flour in this case is mandatory, it gives elasticity to the cakes.
Ingredients:
- corn flour - 250 g;
- wheat flour - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 30 ml;
- water - 100 ml;
- salt;
Preparation
- Mix flour with salt.
- Add oil and water, kneading a tight ball, and leave to rest for 30 minutes.
- Divide into 6 servings, roll out thinly.
- In a dry frying pan, the corn tortilla is browned on both sides.
Spanish tortilla is a radically different recipe from the Mexican one. This treat is more like a potato omelet or casserole. The dish is prepared very simply and does not require any special ingredients. Traditionally, potato tortilla is made from tubers, onions and eggs, but the composition can be expanded. chicken meat, bell peppers or salami.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 3 pcs.;
- salami - 200 g;
- tomato - 2 pcs.;
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- cheese - 100 g;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- oil - 50 ml;
- salt pepper.
Preparation
- Peel the potatoes, cut into circles.
- Saute the onion, add the potatoes, fry.
- In a separate container, mix eggs, grated cheese, salami rings, salt and season with spices.
- Pour the mixture into the potatoes, stir, distribute the tomato circles on top.
- Cook covered, browning on both sides.
Tortilla dishes are more suitable for a snack than a full meal. The fillings are wrapped in a flat cake and served immediately. You can fill the appetizer to your liking; meat, and sausage, and a vegetable mix will do. Combination of smoked chicken breast, fresh cucumber and tomatoes is a safe option for decorating a treat and will definitely please every eater.
Ingredients:
- tortillas - 2 pcs.;
- smoked breast - 150 g;
- tomato - 1 pc.;
- cucumber - 1 pc.;
- iceberg - 2 sheets;
- cheese - 100 g;
- lettuce onions - ½ pcs.;
- mayonnaise.
Preparation
- Chop the breast coarsely.
- Cut the tomato and cucumber into quarters, chop the onion in half rings.
- Lubricate the cakes with mayonnaise, spread over a lettuce leaf.
- Spread meat and vegetables on top, roll up.
- and vegetables browned on both sides in a dry frying pan.
- the recipe is simple and very versatile. The snack comes out delicious and is convenient to take with you for a snack at work or school. The filling can be left in the basic version, that is, not supplemented with hearty ingredients, but you can also diversify the composition by adding herbs, mushrooms or meat components.
Ingredients:
- tortillas - 6 pcs.;
- cheese - 300 g;
- champignons - 250 g;
- onions - ½ pcs.;
- tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- dill, parsley - 50 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- green onions - 20 g.
Preparation
- Save the onion, add chopped mushrooms and finely chopped garlic. Fry until tender.
- Toss the tomato cubes in a roast and cook for 3 minutes, season with salt.
- Put grated cheese on half of each tortilla, fry on top, cheese again. Add chopped greens and green onions.
- Cover with the other half of the tortilla.
- Tortilla with cheese and herbs is browned in a pan on both sides.
Homemade filled tortilla has a variety of options. Most quick way preparation of a quick snack - wrap sausage and cheese in a cake. You can add vegetable mix and your favorite sauce. Be sure to brown in a pan, this will make an appetizer with a crispy shell and a viscous cheese filling.
Ingredients:
- tortillas - 2 pcs.;
- ham - 150 g;
- cheese - 200 g;
- greens - 20 g;
- sweet pepper - ½ pc.;
- tomato - 1 pc.
Preparation
- The tortilla filling is made from chopped vegetables and ham.
- The cheese is grated, all the ingredients are mixed, spread on half of the flat cake.
- Cover with the other half and fry in a hot pan on both sides.
When making your shrimp tortilla, start by preparing the clams. Boil them in boiling water for 5 minutes. Add lavrushka, pots of black pepper and roots to the broth. Sprinkle cooked shrimp lemon juice... Vegetable filling for tortilla can be minimal - lettuce onions, bell peppers and herbs are enough.
Ingredients:
- boiled shrimp - 150 g;
- sweet pepper - ½ pc.;
- purple onion - ½ pc.;
- greens - 20 g;
- pesto - 2 tsp;
- tortillas - 2 pcs.
Preparation
- Spread out tortillas, brush half with pesto sauce.
- Distribute half rings of onion and pepper.
- Put the shrimps on top.
- Cover with the other half of the cake and secure with a toothpick.
Everyone can reproduce the recipe. This is classic version mexican dishes burrito. Minced meat can be prepared from any type of meat or a mixture of several options. Tomato, sweet and hot peppers, onions and various greens are used as vegetable filling. Any tomato sauce will do.
Ingredients:
- tortillas - 4 pcs.;
- minced meat - 250 g;
- bell pepper - 1 pc.;
- chili pepper - ½ pod;
- onions - ½ pcs.;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- dill, parsley - 50 g;
- sugar, wine vinegar, salt;
- tomato sauce- 2 tbsp. l.
Preparation
- Finely chopped onion, cover with vinegar and leave for 30 minutes.
- Fry the minced meat, salt.
- Cut the peppers and tomato into small pieces, add to the meat, fry until the liquid evaporates.
- Drain the vinegar, toss the onion, season with sugar and chopped herbs.
- Put two tablespoons of minced meat on the tortilla, pour over the sauce and garnish with herbs.
Homemade tortilla is filled with the most simple ingredients... In addition to mushrooms in this recipe eggs, cheese and chicken are present. Any sauce can be used: mayonnaise, yogurt or more complex compositions. The appetizer can be rolled up and browned, if desired, in a dry skillet.
Ingredients:
- champignons - 100 g;
- boiled eggs - 2 pcs.;
- boiled breast - 150 g;
- cheese - 100 g;
- tortillas - 2 pcs.
Preparation
- Cut the mushrooms into slices and fry in a pan, salt.
- Coarsely cut the fillets and dice the eggs.
- Mix all ingredients.
- Put the salad on the cake, crush it with cheese, roll it up.
- Brown on both sides in a skillet without oil.
Can be used as a pizza base. Traditional tomato sauce and cheese are used for filling, and meat ingredients and the vegetable composition is determined based on personal preference. In just a quarter of an hour, a wonderful snack will be ready, which is enough for four eaters.
Mexico and Spain have dishes with the same names that don't have much in common. Mexican tortilla is a thin flatbread that is wrapped with a filling with vegetables and meat. Spanish tortilla is a hearty second course based on scrambled eggs and fried potatoes with the addition of various vegetables. Let's take the idea to a note, adding spicy sausages, tomatoes, greens to potatoes and onions - it will turn out delicious and bright.
Ingredients
How to cook
- Peel the potato tubers. If the potato variety has a high starch content, then the potatoes can be boiled, so it is better to boil them in their skins. Cool potatoes and cut into medium cubes.
- Clear onion, chop it finely or in half rings. Chop 2-3 green onion feathers.
- Cut sausages (preferably smoked) into slices and then cut into cubes or sticks. What can you add besides (or instead of) spicy sausages? Anything! The meat component of the tortilla can be any - boiled or fried chicken, fried meat, bacon, boiled pork, sausages and sausages.
- Any greens are suitable for an omelet; take what is in stock. Finely chop parsley or dill leaves, cilantro. Free a small tomato from seeds and juice. Chop the pulp as you like, but not very coarsely.
- To green pea retained a bright juicy color, you need to hold it in boiling water for 1 minute, then lower it in cold water where to keep until it cools.
- Now that all the vegetables are prepared, you can turn on the oven (heat up to 200 degrees) and make an omelet. Break 2-3 eggs into a bowl, shake quickly with a whisk or fork. Salt.
- Heat the oil in a pan suitable for baking food in the oven. Fry the potato cubes in it until browned.
- Transfer the potatoes to a paper towel lined plate. Place the onion and sausages in the remaining oil. Fry until the onions soften.
- Combine fried potatoes, sausages, onions. Season to taste with ground pepper.
- Pour the beaten eggs over the vegetables and sausages. Spread the tomato, green peas, greens and green onions on top. Place the dishes with the tortilla in the oven for 10-12 minutes. Bake until the top is thickened or lightly browned.
- In Spain, tortilla is usually served as a hearty dinner - along with fresh vegetables, cold cuts and a glass of good wine.
