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Tostadas (/ t ɒ ˈ s t ɑː d ə / or / t oʊ ˈ s t ɑː d ə /; Spanish:, lit. ' toasted ' ) are various dishes in Mexican and Guatemalan cuisine based on toasted tortillas. They are generally a flat or bowl-shaped tortilla that is deep-fried or toasted, but may also be any dish using a tostada as a base. [ 1 ]
The origins of the taco are not precisely known, and etymologies for the culinary usage of the word are generally theoretical. [3] [4] Taco in the sense of a typical Mexican dish comprising a maize tortilla folded around food is just one of the meanings connoted by the word, according to the Real Academia Española, publisher of Diccionario de la Lengua Española. [5]
Original release: The tostada, with its refried beans, tangy red sauce, lettuce, and shredded cheese layered over a crunchy corn tostada shell, was part of Taco Bell's original 1962 menu, but it ...
The entire taco is not fried (a Mexican style known as taco dorado), just the shell. Compare taquito, tostada. Tamal (plural tamales, often anglicized as tamale singular) – meat rolled in cornmeal dough (masa), wrapped traditionally in corn husks (waxed paper is sometimes used for commercial versions), and steamed.
Taco Bell’s Tostada was one of the OG menu items when the fast food chain first opened its doors in 1962. The crispy tostada shell was topped with refried beans, red sauce, lettuce, and shredded ...
It was one of the six items released at Taco Bell’s first walkup location in California, per a press release, and tops a tostada shell with refried beans, red sauce, lettuce and shredded cheese ...
A chalupa is a tostada platter in Mexican cuisine, not a sope, but its preparation method is quite similar. It is a specialty of south-central Mexico, such as the states of Puebla, Guerrero, and Oaxaca. It is made by pressing a thin layer of masa dough around the outside of a small mold and deep frying to produce a crisp, shallow corn cup.
Although first mass-produced commercially in the U.S. in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, [1] tortilla chips grew out of Mexican cuisine, where similar items were well known, such as totopos and tostadas. [2] Though usually made of yellow corn, they can also be made of white, blue, or red corn. Tortilla chips intended to be dipped are typically ...