Tortilla is a thin tortilla. She’s quite a substitute for bread, but it's so boring! It is much more interesting to use a cake for different fillings. Peculiar envelopes and rolls look interesting, turn out delicious, help diversify the diet. You can cook them with a variety of fillings. There are a lot of interesting hearty options, as well as dietary dishes. What do we wrap with a tortilla with?
Topped tortilla - general cooking guidelines
The preparation of tortilla can be compared with shawarma. What only they do not add! But the taste will be a little different. Cakes themselves are often made from corn flour, sometimes it is mixed with a wheat product, which is not prohibited. Tortillas can be cooked at home, but easier and faster to buy in the store.
What products can be used for filling:
· Chicken, meat;
· Corn, beans;
· Vegetables of different types, mushrooms, herbs;
· Fish, seafood;
· Eggs, cheese, dairy products.
Often, various sauces based on sour cream, mayonnaise or just ketchup are added to the tortilla. The cake can be folded in different ways: make small envelopes, just fold in half or twist the roll, fold in triangles, like pancakes. The choice depends on the filling used and its quantity.
Hot tortilla stuffed: recipe with chicken and cheese
One of the most hearty and delicious tortilla fillings. Two large portions are obtained from this quantity of products. Here the cakes are not folded, but simply folded in half. The secret of bookmarking greens in a hot dish is also revealed.
Ingredients
· 2 cakes;
300 g of chicken;
· 1 tomato;
· 2 tablespoons of ketchup;
1 red onion
1 pepper;
130 g of cheese;
· 1 bunch of lettuce;
· Spices to taste;
· 1-2 tablespoons of oil.
Cooking method
1. Chicken fillet can simply be fried in a pan, but at the end we cover, so that it comes to readiness. Or pour in boiling water, boil for 20 minutes. Then we get out, cut into plates.
2. If there is no ketchup, then you can take other sauces. Lubricate the half of the tortilla, do not touch the edge. Sprinkle lightly with grated cheese, just a little for the fortress. Lay out pieces of chicken.
3. Cut thinly onion salad. Or take a simple bow. Cut and pour boiling water for a minute to remove the bitterness. Sprinkle the onion with cheese too.
4. Cut the tomatoes into circles, sprinkle with cheese, lay out the pieces of pepper, cover with the free side of the Mexican tortillas.
5. Transfer the tortilla to a preheated pan with a spoonful of oil. Fry on one side, then on the second. The cheese will melt a little, hold together the layers of the filling. It is important to carefully turn over so that nothing spills out.
6. As soon as the cake is browned, carefully remove. Transfer to flat plates. We open from the side of pepper and tomato, put a few sheets of salad, serve to the table.
Spicy tortilla stuffed with cheese and garlic recipe
A tortilla recipe stuffed with a classic combination of cheese, garlic, but it’s important to add something else to it. Otherwise, the filling will be small and it will not please with juiciness.
Ingredients
· 2 cakes;
100 g of hard cheese;
50 g of processed cheese;
· 2 eggs;
2-4 cloves of garlic;
· 1 bell pepper;
· 1-2 tablespoons of mayonnaise.
Cooking method
1. Grind cheese in any way possible, mix with cream cheese. Chop the garlic and add.
2. Eggs need to be boiled in advance, cooled in cold water, peeled and chopped. We combine them with cheese.
3. Free the bell pepper from the seeds, first cut along the straws. Then finely into cubes. Pour into the total mass, stir and season with mayonnaise. You can use sour cream instead, so that it is not so greasy (or harmful). Pour salt and pepper to taste. It is better to try, as they are in cheese.
4. Now is the time to fill the cakes. Divide the filling in half. Smeared with a thick layer. Having departed from the edges, we level, twist with tubes.
5. You can eat tortilla immediately, like a cold appetizer. Or we spread it on the grill and slightly warm the cake. We try not to overdo it, otherwise the filling may leak.
Topped Tortilla: Chicken and Bean Recipe
The original recipe uses boiled beans. If you want to soak and cook it, then you can do it. But the easiest way is to use canned beans (white, red). The only thing - if there is a slimy or not very tasty marinade, the product must be washed. You can just pour into a colander, rinse.
Ingredients
· chicken fillet;
150 g of beans;
· Large tomato;
Large onion head
25 ml of oil;
· 2 cakes;
· Spices.
Cooking method
1. Cut the onion head into cubes, send into warmed oil, fry for a minute.
2. Cut chicken into strips, send to the bird. We fry for about five minutes. During this time, the bird will almost reach readiness.
3. Rub the tomato, discard the skin. Or just use tomato sauce, mashed potatoes, any ketchup. Sent in a pan with a bird and onions. We simmer all together until the excess liquid is gone.
4. Add the beans, warm them together. To taste, add salt and pepper. Mix well, you can fill up a little greens.
5. Spread the hearty filling while the filling is hot, fold the cakes with a tube or simply fold them in half. We try immediately.
Topped Tortilla: Tomato and Corn Recipe
A vegetarian version of tortilla with a filling that can be consumed warm or cold. Canned corn is used from a can; liquid must be drained.
Ingredients
· 0.5 cans of corn;
· 3 tomatoes;
200 g squash;
· 1 small onion;
· salt pepper;
· 3 tablespoons of oil;
· Greens to taste.
Cooking method
1. We chop the onion, pour it into the pan, fry for a minute, add the zucchini, sliced in small cubes. You can use zucchini. Fry with onion until soft. But in no case do not cover, let the juices from vegetables evaporate.
2. Pour boiling water over tomatoes, chop, add to zucchini. We continue to evaporate the juices, you should get a thick tomato stew.
3. Once the mass is cooked, add salt and pepper, mix, fill in canned corn. After a few seconds, turn off the stove.
4. Put the filling on the tortilla. Turn off, eat immediately or cool a little.
Topped tortilla: recipe with fish and cheese
To make such a tortilla, you need red salted fish. Also, any soft cheese is required for the filling, we choose to your taste.
Ingredients
0.15 kg of salmon;
· 0.18 kg of soft cheese;
· 2 cakes;
· 2 large sheets of salad;
· 1 tomato.
Cooking method
1. Lubricate the tortillas with cheese, the whole product should go. And immediately we put on it a large sheet of salad. But you can put a few small pieces.
2. Cut thin red fish. Throw it all over the tortilla.
3. Thinly cut the tomato, lay on the fish. You can sprinkle it with herbs.
4. Twist the cakes with rolls, let stand for 10 minutes. Then with a sharp knife we cut in the middle obliquely. We put 2 rolls for each serving, serve.
Stuffed Diet Tortilla: Peking Cabbage Recipe
Tortilla - diet cakes, since they do not contain yeast, and in themselves thin, savory, akin to pita bread. Based on this product, you can prepare wonderful dietary dishes.
Ingredients
· 7 sheets of Beijing cabbage;
50 g of yogurt;
80 g of brine cheese;
1 pepper;
0.5 tsp mustard;
5-7 olives;
1 egg
· 1 tomato.
Cooking method
1. Put the boiled egg. Then peel, chop. You can simply pour it into a pan and fry the pancake, cut into strips, it will turn out even faster.
2. Cut the Beijing cabbage and all other vegetables into a bowl. Add the olives, cut in half.
3. Mix yogurt and mustard, salt and pepper, pour over the cabbage and stir to reduce the volume.
4. Cheese cut into cubes or straws. Add to the cabbage. We introduce eggs boiled or fried with omelette. We add greens according to your taste and desire.
5. Fill tortillas, eat immediately or within two hours. It is undesirable to store such a dish for a long time, as the vegetables will flow.
Russian tortilla stuffed: recipe with potatoes and saury
It’s not necessary to add some delicacies to Mexican cakes. Russian potatoes are also great for filling, especially in combination with saury. You can take other canned, lightly salted and even fried fish. But we make sure that there are no seeds in it.
Ingredients
2 tortillas
· 1 bank saury;
· 2 potatoes;
1 onion; vinegar, spices;
· 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
· 1 fresh cucumber.
Cooking method
1. Potatoes for tortilla need to be boiled in their uniforms, peeled and must be grated, but only with large strips.
2. While the potatoes are being cooked, chop the onions, pour water with vinegar, let them pickle. We make an acidic solution, about a spoonful of essence in a glass of liquid.
3. Lubricate the cakes with mayonnaise, apply a layer of potatoes, spread the fish on it, broken into small pieces.
4. Drain the onion vinegar, sprinkle them with fish on top.
5. Cut or rub the cucumber, put it on the fish. Turn the tortilla roll.
6. Put the parcel on the grill and quickly fry the tortilla.
Topped Tortilla - Useful Tips and Tricks
· Wet tortillas are not very tasty, so you should not add a lot of sauce to the filling, and it is better to squeeze very juicy products or hold them in a strainer.
· If the tortilla is prepared for guests, then you do not need to add a lot of hot spices or use spicy sauces. It is better to submit them separately, so that each person adds if necessary.
