Mexican tortilla or tortilla is an indispensable dish in the Latin American menu, where it is used as an alternative to bread and the main component of many dishes: tacos, quesadilla, burrito, fajitas and enchiladas. Products made from wheat or corn flour are baked, getting a different, but always worthy result.

Mexican Corn Flakes

Corn flour tortilla dough is always mixed with wheat flour, which gives it the lack of plasticity and softness. Products in this design will get the right taste, but will not disintegrate when rolled and baked. The specified number of components is enough for 6 cakes.

Ingredients:

• corn flour - 1 cup;
• wheat flour - ½ cup;
• water - ½ cup;
• salt - ½ teaspoon;
• oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon.

Cooking

1. Mix two grades of flour with salt.
2. Pour warm water with oil, knead the dough, leave for 30 minutes.
3. Portions of the dough are rolled between two layers of film.
4. Mexican corn tortilla is baked quickly: literally 1.5-2 minutes in a heated pan, and the product is ready.

Wheat tortilla

Do-it-yourself Mexican tortilla can only be made with wheat flour. This recipe uses butter, which creates the effect of sandy texture products. However, if desired, it can be replaced with vegetable - the result will be different, but no less worthy and tasty.

Ingredients:

• wheat flour - 2 cups;
• salt - ½ teaspoon;
• water - 200 ml;
• oil - 50 g.

Cooking

1. Grind flour with salt and butter until crumbs.
2. Pour warm water and knead a soft dough.
3. After half an hour, the lump is divided into parts, each is rolled thinly, placing portions between two film cuts.
4. Brown the product in a dry pan.

What to wrap in a mexican tortilla?

Dishes with Mexican tortillas can be very diverse in composition, taste and nutrition. Products made from corn or wheat flour are complemented with fillings of vegetables, meat, cheese, herbs, mushrooms and spices. When choosing a suitable recipe, you should rely on your preferences and the availability of products.

1. Mexican tortilla is delicious in itself and when served with all kinds of sauces, goulash or butter.
2. Using the product as a base, supplementing it with sauce, cheese, other ingredients and sending it to the oven or microwave for several minutes, you can get a delicious pizza.
3. The tortilla is often supplemented with non-liquid filling, optionally supplementing the components with sauce.

Mexican Tortilla Pizza

Tortilla pizza is served in a matter of minutes and can be served for dinner or for a quick bite. Having pre-cooked cakes and a few more suitable ingredients, making a hearty meal is not difficult. The composition of the goodies proposed below can be varied at your discretion.

Ingredients:

• flat cake - 1 pc.;
• tomato sauce - 20 g;
• onions - ½ pcs.;
• mozzarella - 50 g;
• ham - 50 g;
• cheese - 50 g;
• italian herbs and oil.

Cooking

1. Spread the cake on a baking sheet and grease the sauce.
2. Slices of onion, mozzarella and ham are placed on top, sprinkled with herbs, and then cheese.
3. Next, the Mexican tortilla with filling goes for 5 minutes into the oven, preheated to 180 degrees.

Mexican tortilla with cheese

Considering all kinds of Mexican flatbread recipes, a special attention is drawn to a cheese appetizer. It captivates with its simple quick design, an excellent balance of nutritional properties and the number of calories, as well as the excellent taste characteristics of the Mexican delicacy obtained.

Ingredients:

• cakes - 2 pcs.;
• cheese - 150 g;
• any greens - 1 handful;
• oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• pepper.

Cooking

1. One pan is placed in a pan and put on fire.
2. Sprinkle the product with cheese, spread the greens and again sprinkle with cheese chips.
3. Cover the composition with a second cake, press well with a spatula.
4. After browning on one side, turn it over to the other, fry, and when serving, pepper, spray with oil.

Mexican tortilla with chicken

Tasty and nourishing is somewhat reminiscent of shawarma, but is made out in a slightly different composition. To prepare snacks, fresh Mexican tortillas based on corn or wheat flour are first baked, and then the components of the filling are prepared: chicken is fried and vegetables are chopped.

Ingredients:

• cakes - 4 pcs.;
• chicken fillet - 200 g;
• beans - 200 g;
• oil - 40 g;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• bell pepper - 2 pcs.;
• cheese - 50 g;
• ketchup chili - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• parsley - 4 branches;
• salt, pepper, seasonings.

Cooking

1. Sliced \u200b\u200bfillet is fried, salted, pepper and seasoned to taste.
2. At the end of frying, add the garlic, warm for a minute.
3. Peppers are fried separately, beans are added without juice, rosy chicken is laid, ketchup is heated for 2 minutes.
4. In the center of the cakes put the filling, cheese, fold the envelope.
5. Mexican tortilla stuffed with hot still served.

Ham and Cheese Mexican Tortilla

Mexican delicious tortilla made with smoked ham and hard cheese filling has a considerable audience of loyal fans. A win-win combination of components will not leave anyone indifferent, and capricious picks can be replaced by any of the components with the most preferred.

Ingredients:

• cakes - 4 pcs.;
• ham - 4 slices;
• hard cheese - 200 g;
• mexican canned peppers - to taste;
• green onions - 1 bunch;
• cilantro or parsley - 1 bunch;
• olive oil.

Cooking

1. Ham and peppers are spread on the perimeter of the cake, sprinkled with herbs and cheese.
2. Fold the product in half, squeeze and place in a heated pan.
3. After the tortilla with ham and cheese is browned on both sides, serve it to the table.

Mexican tortillas

Or tacos, made with the addition of all kinds of vegetables, herbs and hot sauce. Often, the filling composition is supplemented with grated cheese or include other components not specified in this recipe to your taste. The base of the filling can be chopped beef, pork or chicken flesh.

Ingredients:

• cakes - 4 pcs.;
• minced meat - 200 g;
• sweet and hot pepper - ½ pc.;
• onion and tomato - ½ pc.;
• greens - 1 bunch;
• sugar and grape vinegar - to taste;
• oil, salt, pepper, tomato sauce.

Cooking

1. Minced meat is fried, and chopped onion is seasoned with vinegar and left for 30 minutes.
2. Chopped peppers and tomatoes are added to the meat, allowed to evaporate moisture.
3. Squeeze the onion, add sugar, salt, greens.
4. On a cake put a couple of spoons of frying, greens with onions, a little sauce and fold in half.

Mexican Tortilla Rolls

Everyone knows the fast-formed, twisted in the form of a roll. Something similar is made from Mexican tortillas, supplementing them with cream cheese and mayonnaise, fresh vegetables, ham, fish or sausages. Each time the result will be different, but always worthy and impressive.

Ingredients:

• cakes - 4 pcs.;
• ham or meat - 250 g;
• sweet and hot peppers - 1 pc.;
• cream cheese or sauce - 150 g;
• greens - 1 bunch;
• lettuce - to taste.

Cooking

1. Cakes are heated in the microwave, greased with cheese or sauce.
2. Lay out the salad, sliced \u200b\u200bham and pepper, roll the products with a roll, allow to soak in the film.
3. Cut the rolls into portions and warm the tortilla rolls before serving in the microwave.

Mexican Tart Pie

Mexican tortilla is often used to decorate pies. A hearty, nutritious, surprisingly piquant and aromatic is an appetizing variation of delicacies with a multi-component filling of chicken and ham, in which vegetables, hot pepper, cheese, greens and seasonings are added in oil.

Step 1: Prepare the ingredients.

Grate the cheese on a medium grater or cut into very thin slices.
Rinse the tomato, cut out the seal, and then cut the vegetable into thin circles.
Rinse the basil leaves, shake off excess moisture and cut into strips of small thickness.
Peel the cloves of garlic and chop with a knife, using a grater or crushing with a special press. Combine chopped garlic cloves with olive oil.

Step 2: Dry the tortilla in the oven.

Set the oven to warm up 180 degrees  Celsius. Cooking should be started only after the oven warms up well.


Put the wheat cake on a baking sheet, grease its top with half the garlic mixed with butter, and then send it to bake in the oven on 5 minutes.

Step 3: Cook the margarita on a tortilla.

Take out the hot cake (do not turn off the oven yet) and sprinkle it with about half of the whole grated cheese.


Lay thin slices of tomato with the next layer, evenly distributing them throughout the tortilla. Salt and pepper to taste.


Then it remains to fill everything on top with the remaining cheese and part of the chopped basil.


Put the pizza in the oven on 7 minutes. During this time, the tomatoes will slightly dry, and all the cheese will melt. The main thing is to ensure that the edges of the pita bread that are not covered with the filling do not burn, perhaps even need to get the pizza out of the oven earlier.


Mix the remaining garlic in oil with balsamic vinegar and pour the prepared Margherita pizza with this sauce, then sprinkle it with the remaining basil and serve.

Step 4: Serve Margarita on a tortilla.

Serve Margarita on a tortilla immediately after cooking, before it has time to cool. You can quickly figure out such pizza for breakfast or have a bite to eat for her afternoon snack. And she can treat friends who have gathered at your place to watch a movie or just chat.


I hope you enjoyed this incredibly easy way to cook pizza for everyone. Of course, far from the classic recipe, but still very tasty.
Enjoy your meal!

Instead of thin wheat cakes, you can take anything wheat and bread, at least half cut along the loaf. All the same, you get great pizza.

If there is no basil, it can be replaced with other fragrant herbs. Of course, the result will be different, but still the main thing in the filling is cheese and tomatoes.

As a rule, there are always pizza products at home: olives, slices of sausage or baked meat, tomato sauce, cheese ... Run on the way home to the bakery and buy a fresh crispy baguette. Only not a loaf, but an implicitly long narrow baguette.

At home, cut it in half lengthwise and slightly crush the pulp with your fingers. Then everything is as always: tomato sauce, filling, cheese. 10-15 minutes in the oven and the meal is ready!

Pizza on the finished test

Do you want a magnificent homemade pizza? Use fresh or frozen yeast dough. It will cost half as much as an order from a pizzeria. You can always buy excellent yeast dough in pavilions where fresh cakes are baked in a tandoor.

Pita Cake

A good basis for pizza is pita cakes, which can be bought in any bread department. Smear them with sauce, spread the top on top, put on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes.

Tortilla Pizza

Mexican tortilla cakes are another option for a fast pizza base. They are wheat, corn, whole grain, cheese. Since the cakes are very thin, lay the filling on top of it directly on the baking sheet. Bake as usual - 12-15 minutes in a preheated oven to 200 ° C.

Ready-made pizza

Today in supermarkets you can buy not only ready-made pizza dough, but also a baked base in the form of cakes. They do not even need to defrost - the time spent in the oven already with the filling is enough for this. If you or your children cannot live without pizza, keep a small supply of such “preparations” in the freezer.