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 How to make tortillas bread at home and Guacamole tacos with simple ingredients.

A brief overview on Tortillas

• Tortillas are thin, round bread that is used in making fajita and quesadillas sandwiches, Tortillas bread is used a lot within Western food, especially in Mexican cooking thus Tortillas are considered an official Mexican bread. It is usually baked of cornflour but in northern Mexico, they use white flour. 

• This Mexican bread is also spread all over the world as a whole, and tortillas bread is used to make sandwiches with crispy chicken, sausage, liver, and burgers of all kinds. We can buy it ready and can be made at home as its ingredients are easy and simple. 

• As we have said tortillas bread can be filled with many different and delicious fillings such as minced meat,  small chicken pieces or even only with vegetables...  and present it in different forms and eat it as basic meals in lunch or at dinner because it is rich as it contains protein, carbohydrates, and vegetables.

• Moreover, it is a good choice for people who are having a diet and are vegetarian; they can make delicious vegetarian tacos with only vegetables. 

• Many of us are looking for a way to make this kind of bread in an easy and simple way and at the same time get a delicious and wonderful taste like the taste that we buy. Besides, when tortillas are rolled it is called tacos which can be filled also with many fillings.

• Thus in this blog, we are going to show how to prepare Tortillas bread at home with simple ingredients and with easy steps also we will give a vegetarian filling for our tortillas made with avocado called Guacamole. Follow us.  

• Time: about 45 min

• 12 pieces.

• Origin: Mexico

The tortillas recipe.

The tortillas recipe is one of the easiest pastries that can be made at home quickly and without cost, all you have to do is: follow the same steps required in the following lines, to get soft and delicious tortillas like that you buy from the markets.

What are the ingredients for Tortilla? 

To prepare it at home we need these ingredients:

• 450 g all-purpose flour.

• 1 tsp salt

• 1 tsp baking powder.

• 1 tbsp oil

• Enough water

How do we prepare the tortillas?

Follow these steps:

1. Mix together flour, salt, and baking powder in a bowl.

2. Add oil and so much water that you get a solid dough.

3. Divide the dough into 12 equal pieces. Cover our tortillas with plastic wrap so we don't let them dry out.

4. Roll out each part of a lightly floured workbench to a round cake, 18-20 cm in diameter.

5. Put the tortilla on top of each other. Sprinkle some flour on each one so they do not get stuck in each other. Cover them with foil.

 

6. Heat up a frying pan, preferably cast iron. It gives the smoothest heat.

7. Bake the tortillas for a half minute on each side. Put them on top of each other and cover them with aluminum foil so that they stay moist and soft.

Fill a Taco.

When you put filling on a tortilla and roll it together it is called a taco. 

Guacamole (seasoned avocado) is a common filling, as it grows and reaps large amounts of avocado in Mexico.

There are, however, many different recipes such as mashed brown beans, and corn seasoned with chili pepper but Guacamole is a base recipe.

The ingredients for the Guacamole filling:

• 2 large ripe avocados

• ½ tsp dried,

• Red chili pepper

• 1 garlic clove

• lemon juice

• black pepper

• water or sour cream

The preparation of our filling:

- Mash the avocados add chili peppers garlic lemon juice and salt add a little water or sour cream to dilute. 

- Mix all into a creamy mixture.

- Fill the tortillas, add a little chopped onion and roll them. 

- Serve your tacos directly for lunch or dinner. 

Tips:

- There are many different fillings recipes but Guacamole is a base recipe.

Enjoy your dish and good appetite

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