Tortillas are an essential element in Mexican cuisine because they can accompany any dish. There are tortillas made from corn and wheat flour, although both are delicious. Work and school sometimes take time away from your day and prevent you from cooking something balanced, so Infobae brings simple recipes that you can make with flour tortilla and they can save you from any occasion, whether it's an unexpected visit or that didn't give you time to have breakfast.
Chicken burritos with cheese/arrachera
Ingredients: 200 grams of diced chicken or arrachera breast, 2 flour tortillas, 1 diced green bell pepper, half diced onion, 100 grams of manchego cheese, salt, pepper and oil.
Preparation: Step 1; add oil to the pan and fry the onion together with the pepper and meat of your choice, let them cook for 15 minutes mixing everything. Step 2; put the manchego cheese into the mixture and wait for it to melt. Step 3; Heat the tortillas on a griddle, fill them with the preparation and roll up.
Tuna chimichangas
Ingredients: 4 flour tortillas, 1 grated carrot, half a grated onion, 1 can of tuna, half a cup of soy sauce, one minced garlic, half a cup of lettuce cut into thin strips, 3 tablespoons of brown sugar, half a cup of pineapple juice, a spoonful of mustard.
Preparation: Step 1; place the tuna, carrot, pineapple juice, one tablespoonful of mustard and one of soy sauce in the pan. Mix all the ingredients until they boil, then add the onion and garlic, continue stirring until the onion looks transparent and the juice has been consumed to add the lettuce. Step 2; Add a spoonful of the preparation in the center of a tortilla, fold the sides of the tortilla one over the other towards the center. Step 3; Fry the chimichangas with plenty of oil and that's it.
Mini pizzas
Ingredients: 2 flour tortillas, 3 slices of diced ham, diced sausage, diced pineapple, 60 grams of striped Manchego cheese, tomato sauce, butter, basil, salt and pepper.
Preparation: Step 1; put on the flour tortilla a spoonful of tomato sauce and spread carefully. Step 2; cover the tortilla with the grated Manchego cheese and add the ham, pineapple and sausage on top. Step 3; put the preparation in a frying pan over medium heat with little butter and cover. In 5 to 10 minutes our mini pizza will be ready.
Rollitos primavera
Ingredients: 10 flour tortillas, 1 medium pumpkin, 2 carrots, a chicken breast, a little chopped cabbage, soy sauce, oil, salt, pepper and chopsticks.
Preparation: Step 1; chop the pumpkin, cabbage, carrot into julienne, chop the chicken into very thin strips and season with salt and pepper. Step 2; In a frying pan with little oil, fry the vegetables together with the chicken, adding soy sauce, let it cook for 5 minutes. Step 3; fill the flour tortillas with the mixture roll them up, close with chopsticks. Step4; heat enough oil, add the rolls until fried.
Shrimp gringas
Ingredients: 10 flour tortillas, 440 grams of Manchego cheese, 150 grams of clean shrimp, julienne onion salt and pepper.
Preparation: Step 1; season the shrimp with the onion, salt and pepper until cooked in a pan over medium heat. Step 2; heat a griddle with the tortillas. Step 3; add the shrimp mixture to the tortillas, put the manchego cheese on top and wait for it to melt by turning the tortilla in a synchronized way.
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