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

Mexican cornmeal tortillas

Corn flour tortilla dough is always kneaded with wheat flour, which gives it the missing plasticity and softness. Products in this design will acquire the desired taste, but will not fall apart when rolling and baking. 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 types of flour with salt.
2. Pour warm water with oil, knead the dough, leave for 30 minutes.
3. Portions of the dough are rolled out between two layers of film.
4. Mexican corn tortilla is baked quickly: literally 1.5-2 minutes in a preheated pan, and the product is ready.

wheat tortilla

Mexican tortilla with your own hands can only be made from wheat flour. This recipe uses butter, which creates the effect of a sandy texture of 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. Flour with salt and butter is rubbed to crumbs.
2. Add warm water and knead a soft dough.
3. After half an hour, the lump is divided into parts, each is rolled out thinly, placing portions between two cuts of the film.
4. Brown the products in a dry frying pan.

What to wrap in a Mexican tortilla?

Mexican tortilla dishes can be very diverse in composition, taste and nutritional value. Products made from corn or wheat flour are complemented with fillings from vegetables, meat, cheese, herbs, mushrooms and spices. Choosing the right recipe, you should rely on your preferences and the availability of products.

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

Mexican flatbread pizza

Tortilla pizza is ready in minutes and can be served with dinner or for a quick snack. With pre-cooked cakes and a few more suitable ingredients, creating a hearty meal is not difficult. The composition of the delicacy proposed below can be varied at your discretion.

Ingredients:

• cake - 1 pc.;
• tomato sauce - 20 g;
• onion - ½ pc.;
• mozzarella - 50 g;
• ham - 50 g;
• cheese - 50 g;
• Italian herbs and oil.

Cooking

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

Mexican tortilla with cheese

Considering all kinds of recipes with Mexican flatbread, a cheese appetizer attracts special attention. Captivating is its simple, quick presentation, the excellent balance of nutritional properties and calorie content, as well as the excellent taste characteristics of the resulting Mexican delicacy.

Ingredients:

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

Cooking

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

Mexican tortilla with chicken

Tasty and satisfying, it is somewhat reminiscent of shawarma, but is made out in a slightly different composition. To prepare an appetizer, 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;
• chili ketchup - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• parsley - 4 sprigs;
• salt, pepper, seasonings.

Cooking

1. Sliced ​​fillet is fried, salted, peppered and seasoned to taste.
2. At the end of frying, add garlic, warm up for a minute.
3. Peppers are fried separately, beans without juice are added, ruddy chicken, ketchup are laid, heated for 2 minutes.
4. In the center of the cake put the filling, cheese, roll up the envelope.
5. Mexican tortilla with stuffing is served while still hot.

Mexican tortilla with ham and cheese

The delicious Mexican flatbread made with smoked ham and hard cheese has a considerable audience of loyal admirers. A win-win combination of components will not leave anyone indifferent, and capricious fussy people can replace any of the components with the most preferable one.

Ingredients:

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

Cooking

1. Ham and peppers are laid out on a cake around the perimeter, sprinkled with herbs and cheese.
2. Fold the product in half, press it and place it in a heated pan.
3. After the tortilla with ham and cheese is browned on both sides, it is served at the table.

Mexican tortillas with minced meat

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

Ingredients:

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

Cooking

1. The minced meat is fried, and the chopped onion is seasoned with vinegar and left for 30 minutes.
2. Add chopped peppers and tomatoes to the meat, cook until the moisture evaporates.
3. Squeeze the onion, add sugar, salt, herbs.
4. A couple of spoons of roasting, greens with onions, a little sauce are put on the cake and folded in half.

Mexican tortilla rolls

Everyone knows quickly drawn up, twisted in the form of a roll. Something similar is prepared from Mexican tortillas, supplemented 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 leaves - to taste.

Cooking

1. The cakes are heated in the microwave, smeared with cheese or sauce.
2. Lettuce, chopped ham and pepper are laid out, the products are rolled up, allowed to soak in the film.
3. Cut the rolls into portions and warm the tortilla rolls before serving in the microwave.

Mexican tortilla pie

Mexican tortilla is often used to decorate pies. Hearty, nutritious, surprisingly spicy and fragrant is an appetizing variation of a delicacy with a multi-component filling of chicken and ham, to which vegetables, hot peppers, cheese, herbs and seasonings poached in oil are added.

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 slices.
Rinse the basil leaves, shake off excess moisture and cut into strips of small thickness.
Peel the garlic cloves from the husk and chop with a knife, using a grater or crushing with a special press. Mix crushed garlic cloves with olive oil.

Step 2: Dry the cake in the oven.

Set the oven to preheat to 180 degrees Celsius. You need to start cooking 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 for 5 minutes.

Step 3: Prepare the margarita on a tortilla.

Take out the hot tortilla (leave the oven on for now) and sprinkle it with about half of the grated cheese.


Lay thin circles of tomato in the next layer, evenly distributing them throughout the cake. Salt and pepper to taste.


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


Send the pizza to the oven 7 minutes. During this time, the tomatoes will dry out a little, and all the cheese will melt. The main thing is to make sure that the edges of the pita bread not covered with filling do not burn, perhaps the pizza will even need to be taken out of the oven earlier.


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

Step 4: Serve Margherita on a flatbread.

Serve Margherita on a tortilla immediately after cooking, while it has not yet had time to cool. You can quickly figure out such pizza for yourself for breakfast or have a snack on it for an afternoon snack. You can also treat it to friends who have gathered at your place to watch a movie or just chat.


I hope you enjoyed this incredibly easy way to make the famous pizza. It's over, it's far from the classic recipe, but it's still very tasty.
Bon Appetit!

Instead of a thin wheat cake, you can take anything wheat and bread, at least half a loaf cut lengthwise. It still makes 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 ingredients for pizza 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 long loaf, but a long narrow baguette.

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

Pizza on ready dough

Want a great homemade pizza? Use fresh or frozen yeast dough. It will cost half as much as ordering from a pizzeria. Excellent yeast dough can always be bought in pavilions where fresh cakes are baked in the tandoor.

Pizza on pita bread

A good base for pizza is pita bread, which you can buy in any bakery department. Lubricate them with sauce, spread the nachiku on top, put on a baking sheet lined with parchment for baking, bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes.

Tortilla Pizza

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

Pizza on ready-made crusts

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 be defrosted - 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 “blanks” in the freezer.