List of tortilla-based dishes facts for kids
A chimichanga with rice
This is a list of tortilla-based dishes and foods that use the tortilla as a primary ingredient. A tortilla is a type of soft, thin flatbread made from finely ground corn or wheat flour that comes from Mexico and Central America and traditionally cooked on a comal (cookware). Originally derived from the corn tortilla (tortilla in Spanish means "small torta", or "small cake"), a bread of maize which predates the arrival of Europeans to the Americas, the wheat flour tortilla was an innovation after wheat was brought to the New World from Spain while this region was the colony of New Spain. It is made with an unleavened, water-based dough, pressed and cooked like corn tortillas.
Tortilla-based dishes
A burrito prepared with a flour tortilla
- Alambre
- Arizona cheese crisp
- Burrito
- Chalupa
- Chilaquiles
- Chimichanga
- Corn burrito
- Don Tacos
- Empalme
- Enchilada
- Entomatada
- Fajita
- Garnache
- Gringas
- Güirila
- Huevos motuleños
- Huevos rancheros
- Nachos
- Panuchos
- Quesabirria
- Quesadilla
- Salbutes
- Sincronizada
- Taco
- Talo
- Taquito
- Tlayuda
- Tortilla chip
- Tostada
See also
- Corn tortilla
- List of bread dishes
- List of Mexican dishes
- Mexican street food
- New Mexican cuisine
- Tortilla warmer
- Wheat tortilla
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