Mexican
Tortillas de Maiz (Warm Corn Tortillas)
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Tortillas de Maiz (Warm Corn Tortillas) is Mexican home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat a dry comal or heavy skillet over medium-high heat.
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Warm each tortilla about 20 seconds per side, until it steams and puffs slightly.
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Stack the warmed tortillas in a cloth-lined basket to keep them soft and hot.
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Serve immediately alongside the comida.
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Bought by the kilo from the tortilleria and warmed, never made from scratch on a weekday. Put 'tortillas de maiz, 1 kg' on the shopping list, never masa harina; a from-masa version belongs only to sopes and gorditas, a weekend project, not the daily bread.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tortillas de Maiz (Warm Corn Tortillas), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Tortillas de Maiz (Warm Corn Tortillas) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 150 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 30 g
- Fat
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 290 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Tortillas de Maiz (Warm Corn Tortillas) takes about 5 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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