Tortilla - recipes for tortillas and a variety of fillings for every taste! Tortilla with sausage, cheese and herbs Filling for tortilla cheese flatbread

Tortillas are Mexican corn tortillas. IN lately They are increasingly made with the addition of wheat flour, which gives the dough elasticity. In Mexico, they are used for different purposes: they eat soup like bread, scoop up sauce like a spoon, put it on top of each other, sandwiching it and getting a kind of pie. But most often, various foods are wrapped here in corn tortillas, in which case they are served hot as a main dish. Tortilla fillings usually have a complex composition, they are made from vegetables, meat, beans and other ingredients, mixed and flavored with sauce. The taste of the finished snack largely depends on what the corn tortilla is filled with, so the choice of filling recipe should be approached especially seriously.

Cooking features

Today, tortilla is not a rare and inaccessible product in our country - it can be purchased in most large grocery stores. Even if there is no retail outlet near your home that sells corn tortillas, you can fry them yourself, since the recipe is simple and does not include rare ingredients. For this reason, every housewife can diversify her diet by including Mexican dishes in her menu. Considering that there are a lot of recipes for filling for tortillas, it will not be difficult to select the appropriate filling option. However, in order for the stuffed tortilla to be truly tasty, you need to know a few subtleties.

The filled tortilla must be spicy, as befits a Mexican dish. For this reason, regardless of whether the filling includes pepper or a spicy sauce, the tortilla is sprinkled with ground red pepper before putting the filling on it.
Tortillas are usually served hot, but together with the filling, which is applied in a significant amount, frying them will be problematic. Therefore, both the flatbreads and the filling are cooked or reheated separately immediately before serving.
If you want to give the dish a truly Mexican flavor, add the most popular products here to the filling: corn, beans, sweet peppers.

If you are not ready to figure out what products to use and how to prepare the tortilla filling, you can use proven recipes.

Bean tortilla filling

red beans – 0.2 kg;
goat cheese – 50 g;
garlic – 3 cloves;
cilantro – 20 g;
coriander, ground red pepper, salt - to taste.

Cooking method:

Sort and rinse the beans. Fill the grains with water. This needs to be done in advance, since the beans need to be soaked in water for at least 3-4 hours, or even overnight.
Drain the water, add a new portion of liquid and put on fire. Cook the beans until tender, that is, until they become soft.
Drain off excess water, leaving only a small portion, and puree the beans using a blender.
Grind the coriander grains in a mortar along with the garlic. If desired, you can crush it with a hand press and grind the seasoning in a coffee grinder.
Add garlic and coriander to the beans, salt and pepper to taste, and stir.
Beat the beans in the blender again, but this time together with the cheese.
Finely chop the cilantro with a knife.
Heat the filling in the microwave or in a frying pan, place it on a flatbread sprinkled with pepper, and roll it up into a ball.

Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped herbs before serving. It will not only decorate it, but also give it a unique taste and aroma.

Tortilla filling with chicken and cheese

chicken breast fillet – 0.4 kg;
bell pepper – 100 g;
zucchini – 0.2 kg;
onions – 100 g;
hard cheese – 150 g;
salt, spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

Wash the chicken breast, dry it with a napkin, cut into thin strips.
Peel the onion and cut the onion into thin half rings.
Wash the zucchini. If necessary, remove the peel and seeds. Cut into small pieces.
Wash the pepper. Remove the stalk and seeds, cut into strips.
Coarsely grate the cheese.
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, add onion and fry until golden brown.
Add chicken fillet and fry it with onions for 10 minutes. It must be fully prepared.
Remove the fried chicken with onions from the pan and fill a plate with it.
Without splashing the oil from the pan, add the zucchini and pepper, fry them for 6-7 minutes, adding salt and seasoning to taste.

Place a spoonful of vegetables on the tortilla, flatten them slightly, place the chicken on top, sprinkle with cheese and roll into a large roll.

Chicken and mushroom tortilla filling

chicken breast fillet – 0.2 kg;
fresh champignons – 0.2 kg;
onions – 100 g;
tomato – 150 g;
bell pepper – 0.2 kg;
carrots – 100 g;
vegetable oil - as much as needed;
salt, ground red pepper - to taste.

Cooking method:

Remove the skins from the onions, cut them into small pieces, and divide them into 2 parts.
Boil the chicken fillet until tender, cut into small strips.
Wash the champignons, pat dry with paper towels and cut into thin slices.
Peel the bell pepper from seeds and cut into small strips.
Cut the tomatoes into cubes.
Heat the oil in a frying pan, place half the onion and mushrooms in it. Fry them over low heat, stirring occasionally, until all the moisture released from the champignons has evaporated from the pan.
In another frying pan, fry the remaining onions and carrots. When they acquire a golden hue, add chicken fillet to them and fry it for 5 minutes.
Add pepper and tomatoes, salt and pepper. Simmer for 2 minutes.

Place vegetables and chicken on the tortilla as the first layer, and place a spoonful of mushrooms on top. After this, roll the cake into a voluminous roll. Fill the remaining tortillas the same way.

Tortilla with canned beans and corn

canned beans – 0.4 kg;
avocado – 1 pc.;
canned corn – 0.2 kg;
onions – 100 g;
lettuce leaves - according to the number of tortillas;
sour cream – 50 ml;
tomato sauce – 50 ml;
hard cheese – 150 g;
vegetable oil - as much as needed;
salt, spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

Cut the avocado pulp into thin slices.
Using a blender, puree half the beans.
Add ketchup and sour cream to the bean puree and stir. At this point, season and add salt to the filling to taste.
Mix bean sauce with corn and remaining beans.
Fry the onion cut into small cubes in vegetable oil.
When the onion acquires a golden hue, place the bean mixture on it and fry.
Add avocado, stir and heat for 2-3 minutes.

Place a lettuce leaf on each tortilla, spread the filling on it, smooth it out, sprinkle with coarsely grated cheese. Wrap the filling in a tortilla and serve.

Fruit filling for tortillas

bananas – 0.3 kg;
strawberries – 150 g;
heavy cream – 100 ml.

Cooking method:

Sort the berries. Wash while removing the sepals. Cut into large pieces.
Peel the bananas and cut their flesh into medium-sized cubes.
Whip the cream.
Mix bananas and berries with whipped cream.
Place the fruit salad on the tortilla and roll it up.

A fruit-filled tortilla does not need to be peppered or reheated. You can serve it for dessert, although it is quite capable of replacing a whole breakfast.

You can make a quick lunch out of tortillas if you know the recipe for the appropriate filling. Moreover, you can assemble the filling yourself from what you find in the refrigerator. If you stick to the basic principles of making tortilla fillers, you won't be disappointed with the results.

Tortilla is a thin flatbread of unleavened dough, kneaded from wheat or high-quality corn flour. They can be eaten simply instead of bread, or prepared with filling. In Mexican cuisine, tortillas fried in butter are called tostados; there are also such varieties of dishes as quesadillas, burritos, enchilados, and tacos. These are all tortillas, but with different fillings; they have one thing in common: cheese is always used in the filling.

Mexican tortilla dishes with cheese - general cooking principles

The dough for flatbreads can be of two types: traditional corn flour or wheat flour. It’s quite simple to prepare; all you need is, strictly speaking, flour, water, cow’s milk butter, and salt. If you don’t want to bother making flatbreads yourself, you can buy them ready-made at any large supermarket.

Tortillas, traditional for Mexican cuisine, are becoming in demand in our cuisine. They are served fried in butter for tea or instead of bread, but more often these flatbreads are wrapped with some tasty filling, an essential component of which is cheese.

Depending on the type of filling, each dish has its own name. For example, if you add easy-melting hard cheese to the filling or supplement it with minced meat, you get a quesadilla. Tortilla with cheese, boiled chicken and vegetables, baked under a special tomato sauce, in Mexican cuisine is called an enchilada. Burrito is a tortilla with cheese and beans, similar to European fast food.

You can quickly make a delicious pie from tortillas with cheese or wrap fried meat with light vegetable salad and cheese in such flatbreads, you get something similar to shawarma, or tacos in Mexican cuisine.

The final stage of preparation is heating. The rolled flatbreads are not fried, but rather heated in a dry frying pan until they are only slightly browned. This way they become crispy, the cheese inside melts a little and becomes viscous.

The easiest recipe for tortillas with cheese - “Quesadilla”

Ingredients

For the flatbreads:

“Farmer's” butter – 100 gr.;

half a spoon of fine salt;

one and a half glasses of water;

wheat or corn flour – 600 gr.

For the filling, for four tortillas:

120 gr. any semi-hard cheese.

Cooking method:

Sift the flour into a spacious bowl that is convenient for kneading. Add salt, melted and cooled butter and cool water. First, stirring with a spoon, then switching to manual kneading, prepare the dough. It comes out soft and hardly sticks to your palms.

Roll out the dough into a very thin layer and, using a plate as a stencil, cut out circles.

Place the pieces in a dry frying pan and lightly fry them on both sides, not allowing them to brown. It is better to undercook the tortillas a little rather than dry them out.

This portion of dough makes at least 20 flatbreads. They can be prepared for future use, since tortillas are stored for a long time if kept in a tightly tied bag.

Grind the cheese - grate it on a medium or coarse grater.

We spread the cheese shavings in a fairly thick layer over one of the flatbreads, and place another one on top.

Carefully transfer the “structure” to a heated frying pan and fry over low heat. After heating one side for a minute, carefully turn it over to the other.

Cut the hot flatbreads into four pieces and serve immediately with some hot sauce.

“Quesadilla” – Mexican tortilla with cheese and minced meat

Ingredients:

half a liter jar of tomatoes canned in tomato juice;

300 gr. mixed, low-fat minced meat;

1/2 can of sweet corn;

cheese – 200 gr.;

spoon of vegetable oil;

four tortillas.

Cooking method:

Pour oil into a frying pan or thick-walled saucepan. Place over medium heat and heat thoroughly.

Distribute the minced meat evenly over the bottom of the pan. After waiting a minute, we begin to mix, trying to break up the meat that has seized in lumps as much as possible. Fry over medium heat for about three minutes until the color changes. In the middle of the process, add the tomatoes cut into pieces, and a minute before readiness, add and season with pepper to your taste.

After removing from the heat, stir in the canned corn into the minced meat and let the filling cool slightly.

Grate the cheese with a coarse or fine grater and sprinkle it on the flatbreads, only half of each.

We spread the minced meat over the cheese shavings and cover the filling by wrapping the free side of the flatbread over it.

Having heated the grill pan well, fry the flatbreads until lightly browned on both sides. Please note that there is no need to grease the pan with oil. If you don't have a grill, you can use any frying pan.

“Enchilada” – tortillas with cheese and chicken in tomato sauce

Ingredients:

tortilla - five flatbreads;

70 grams of “Russian” cheese;

boiled chicken breast– one fillet;

small onion head;

sweet pepper - half a large fruit;

one fresh tomato and 100 grams, canned in its own juice;

a spoon of refined oil.

Cooking method:

Finely chop the onion and two cloves of garlic. The pulp of sweet peppers, fresh and canned tomatoes, also cut into small pieces.

Sauté the onion and garlic in oil until translucent, add sweet peppers and tomatoes and simmer covered for seven minutes. At the end, add some salt, you can add red pepper for spiciness.

After cooling slightly, transfer the contents into a blender bowl and blend until pureed.

Cut the boiled breast into strips or small cubes, grate the cheese through a coarse grater.

Measure out a third of the prepared sauce and mix with chicken.

Place two spoons of meat filling on the flatbread, closer to the edge, and wrap it in a roll. We prepare all the tortillas in this way.

Place the resulting rolls tightly in a refractory mold, pour generously with the remaining sauce and cover with cheese.

Place the pan in the oven and bake the enchilada at 180 degrees until golden brown.

"Tacos" - a simple Mexican snack made from tortillas with cheese, meat and fresh vegetables.

Ingredients:

five tortillas;

250 gr. any boiled meat;

tomato sauce or ketchup;

half a glass of canned corn;

Tabasco sauce;

fresh sweet pepper - large pepper;

Chinese cabbage or lettuce.

Cooking method:

Shred Chinese cabbage into short, fairly thin strips. If you decide to use lettuce leaves, tear them finely. Cut the pulp of the peeled bell pepper into strips.

Cut the boiled meat into thin strips. However, it is not necessary to use it specifically; any meat product is suitable for an appetizer: sausage, ham, frankfurters or smoked meats, including chicken.

Combine sliced meats with vegetables. Add corn and coarsely grate cheese into them, mix.

Fold the flatbreads in half, fill them with filling and lightly heat them in a dry regular or grill pan. The vegetables are fresh, so in order not to spoil the main taste, we do not heat them for long. All you need to do is wait a minute on each side.

This appetizer should be served warm, adding the filling after heating with sauces to suit your taste. When the flatbreads cool, they become soft and the taste of the dish is lost.

“Burito” - Mexican-style fast food made from tortilla with cheese, beans and beef

Ingredients:

beef (pulp) – 300 gr.;

large onion;

one sweet pepper;

chili pepper;

two small fresh tomatoes;

a can of white beans;

a bunch of fresh cilantro;

80 grams of hard, sharp cheese;

four tortillas;

three tablespoons of unfragrant oil;

small lemon;

half a spoon of ground coriander.

Cooking method:

We wash the pulp with water and cut it into very thin strips, almost into strips. Be sure to dry the meat and take a sharp knife; wet flesh will slip out of your hands, and a dull knife will not allow you to cut it thinly.

Finely chopped chili peppers directly with seeds, onions and three small cloves of garlic.

Fry the pieces of beef in oil until golden brown, add a little water, add some salt and simmer the meat until soft. At the end, there should be no moisture left in the pan with the meat. Place the beef on a plate.

Place the onion in a frying pan with the remaining meat juice and oil. After frying until golden brown, add bell pepper and chili, stirring and frying for two minutes. Cook over medium heat, do not cover the pan.

Add previously fried meat to the vegetables and add garlic. Sprinkle with coriander and stir, heat for about another minute. Now add the finely chopped tomatoes, mix everything and simmer for another minute and a half.

After draining all the liquid from the can of beans, crush the grains with a fork and transfer to the pan. Add finely chopped cilantro, mix everything well, setting the heat to maximum. Sprinkle the filling with lemon juice.

On the flatbread, closer to the edge, place two thin slices of cheese and place the hot meat filling on them. Adding a sprig of cilantro, roll it up into a roll or envelope.

Quickly heat the packages in a dry frying pan. Preferably it should be a grill pan.

Tortilla Pie with Cheese

Ingredients:

tortillas - six flatbreads;

sweet cream butter – 50 gr.;

200 gr. any natural cheese;

Feta cheese – 300 gr.;

one egg;

three tablespoons of dark sesame.

Cooking method:

Cut the butter into small pieces. Place in a saucepan and place on low heat. Once all the pieces have melted, remove from the stove.

Grind the hard cheese into a separate bowl using a coarse grater.

Place the flatbreads on the table and brush the surface of each with melted butter using a pastry brush.

Sprinkle the flatbread generously with hard cheese, and paint “Feta” onto it with your fingers.

Roll the tortillas into rolls.

Line a round pan with parchment paper and grease it well with the remaining melted butter.

Arrange the prepared tortilla rolls in a circle.

Brush the surface of the future pie with beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Place the pan in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees in advance.

Allow the finished cake to cool slightly in the pan and only then remove.

Tortilla with cheese - cooking tricks and useful tips

Important point– the dough should be rolled out very thin, the thickness of the layer should not exceed 2 mm. When frying, set the heat to minimum; do not allow the flatbread to brown, as it will continue to fry in the future.

To prevent the finished tortillas from drying out during the cooking process, the tortillas should be stacked under a linen towel and cooled only under it.

If you have prepared a lot of flatbreads, store them in a tightly sealed bag. Keep at room temperature, do not refrigerate.

Use high-quality cheese that melts easily when heated. To enhance the taste, you can add different types of cheeses, such as feta or mozzarella.

Tortilla dishes with cheese are preferably served with spicy garlic sauces such as “Salsa”.

Mexican tortilla cheese dishes - general principles preparations

Depending on the type of filling, each dish has its own name. For example, if you add easy-melting hard cheese to the filling or supplement it with minced meat, you get a quesadilla. A tortilla with cheese, boiled chicken and vegetables, baked with a special tomato sauce, is called an enchilada in Mexican cuisine. Burrito is a tortilla with cheese and beans, similar to European fast food.

The easiest recipe for tortillas with cheese - “Quesadilla”

Ingredients

For the flatbreads:

butter "Farmer's" butter - 100 gr.;

half a spoon of fine salt;

one and a half glasses of water;

wheat or corn flour - 600 gr.

For the filling, for four tortillas:

120 gr. any semi-hard cheese.

Cooking method:

Roll out the dough into a very thin layer and, using a plate as a stencil, cut out circles.

Place the pieces in a dry frying pan and lightly fry them on both sides, not allowing them to brown. It is better to undercook the tortillas a little rather than dry them out.

This portion of dough makes at least 20 flatbreads. They can be prepared for future use, since tortillas are stored for a long time if kept in a tightly tied bag.

Grind the cheese - grate it on a medium or coarse grater.

We spread the cheese shavings in a fairly thick layer over one of the flatbreads, and place another one on top.

Carefully transfer the “structure” to a heated frying pan and fry over low heat. After heating one side for a minute, carefully turn it over to the other.

Cut the hot flatbreads into four pieces and serve immediately with some hot sauce.

"Quesadilla" - Mexican tortilla with cheese and minced meat

Ingredients:

half a liter jar of tomatoes canned in tomato juice;

300 gr. mixed, low-fat minced meat;

1/2 can of sweet corn;

cheese - 200 gr.;

spoon of vegetable oil;

four tortillas.

Cooking method:

Pour oil into a frying pan or thick-walled saucepan. Place over medium heat and heat thoroughly.

After removing from the heat, stir in the canned corn into the minced meat and let the filling cool slightly.

Grate the cheese with a coarse or fine grater and sprinkle it on the flatbreads, only half of each.

We spread the minced meat over the cheese shavings and cover the filling by wrapping the free side of the flatbread over it.

“Enchilada” - tortillas with cheese and chicken in tomato sauce

Ingredients:

tortilla - five flatbreads;

70 grams of “Russian” cheese;

boiled chicken breast - one fillet;