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Ignacio Anaya used triangles of fried tortilla for the nachos he created in 1943. [3]The triangle-shaped tortilla chip was popularized by Rebecca Webb Carranza in the 1940s as a way to make use of misshapen tortillas rejected from the automated tortilla manufacturing machine that she and her husband used at their Mexican delicatessen and tortilla factory in southwest Los Angeles.
A tortilla (/ tɔːrˈtiːə /, Spanish: [toɾˈtiʝa]) is a thin, circular unleavened flatbread from Mesoamerica originally made from maize hominy meal, and now also from wheat flour. The Aztecs and other Nahuatl speakers called tortillas tlaxcalli ([t͡ɬaʃˈkalli]). [1] First made by the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica before colonization ...
In North America, a corn tortilla or just tortilla (/ tɔːrˈtiːə /, Spanish: [toɾˈtiʝa]) is a type of thin, unleavened flatbread, made from hominy, that is the whole kernels of maize treated with alkali to improve their nutrition in a process called nixtamalization. A simple dough made of ground hominy, salt and water is then formed into ...
As such, 'Spanish omelette' [12] [13] or 'Spanish tortilla' [14] [15] are its common names in English, while tortilla española [9] [13] [16] [17] is the formally accepted name even within the peninsula. In Spain, an omelette (made simply of beaten eggs) is known as tortilla francesa (lit. ' French omelette ') to distinguish it from the potato ...
Tortilla-based dishes. A burrito prepared with a flour tortilla. Tacos prepared with corn tortillas and a carnitas filling. Taquitos topped with guacamole. Alambre – Mexican food. Arizona cheese crisp – Cheese dish. Burrito – Tex-Mex dish consisting of a wheat flour tortilla wrapped to enclose the filling. Chalupa – Mexican specialty dish.
A flour tortilla (/ tɔːrˈtiːə /, /- jə /) or wheat tortilla is a type of soft, thin flatbread made from finely ground wheat flour. Made with flour- and water-based dough, it is pressed and cooked, similar to corn tortillas. [1] The simplest recipes use only flour, water, fat, and salt, but commercially-made flour tortillas generally ...
How to make a cheese quesadilla A quesadilla Half quesadillas, bisected to show content. A quesadilla (/ ˌ k eɪ s ə ˈ d iː j ə /; Spanish: [kesaˈðiʝa] ⓘ; Mexican diminutive of quesada [1] [2]) is a Mexican dish consisting of a tortilla that is filled primarily with cheese, and sometimes meats, spices, and other fillings, and then cooked on a griddle or stove. [3]
from Spanish chile, from Nahuatl chilli. chipotle. from Spanish, smoked jalapeño, from Nahuatl chilpoctli. chocolate. from Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl xocolatl meaning "hot water" or from a combination of the Mayan word chocol meaning "hot" and the Nahuatl word atl meaning "water."