Crossword clues for tortilla
tortilla
- Tex-Mex staple
- Mexican food staple
- Mexican staple
- Cornmeal item
- Burrito's shell
- Burrito outside
- Taquito wrap
- Taquito exterior
- Spanish for "little cake"
- South-of-the-border food
- Maize cake: Sp
- Flauta wrapper
- Fajita component
- Enchilada wrap
- Enchilada holder
- Chimichanga wrap
- Chimichanga holder
- Burrito wrapper
- Burrito wrap
- Bowl material?
- ___ chips (Mexican snack served with salsa)
- Base of a fajita
- It’s a wrap
- (Mexico) thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour
- Its a wrap
- A Mexican cousin of 4 Down
- A bread in Cancun
- Steinbeck's "___ Flat"
- Mexican baker's product
- Mexican pancake
- Mexican filled pancake
- Omelette’s wrong — one sent back everything
- Pancake, wrong one everyone picked up
- He's not deluded about top celebs
- Thin unleavened pancake
- Taco ingredient
- Mexican snack
- Mexican dish
- Soup ingredient
- Corn product
- Mexican fare
- Southern bread
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tortilla \Tor*til"la\, n. [Sp.] An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from American Spanish tortilla, from Spanish, "a tart," literally "a little cake," diminutive of torta "cake," from Late Latin torta "flat cake" (see torte).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (qualifier: Mexico) A flat round bread made out of cornmeal or flour. In Mexican cuisine they are often served with a filling or topping such as ''frijoles'' "beans", ''carne'' "meat", ''salsa'' "sauce", sour cream and cheese, in which case they are called quesadillas. 2 (qualifier: Spain) Spanish omelette; an omelette containing potatoes and onions
WordNet
n. thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour
Wikipedia
A flour tortilla (or wheat tortilla to differentiate it from other uses of the word tortilla, which in Spanish means "small torta", or "small cake") is a type of soft, thin flatbread made from finely ground wheat flour from Mexico.
Originally derived from the corn tortilla, a bread of maize which predates the arrival of Europeans to the Americas, the wheat flour tortilla was an innovation by exiled Spanish Jews who did not consider corn meal to be kosher, using wheat brought from Europe, while this region was the colony of New Spain. It is made with an unleavened, water based dough, pressed and cooked like corn tortillas. In Spanish the word "tortilla", without qualification, has different meanings in different regions. In Spain it is an omelette; in Mexico and Central America it is a corn tortilla; and in many other places a flour tortilla.
Flour tortillas are commonly prepared with meat, mashed potatoes, cheese and other ingredients to make dishes such as tacos, quesadillas and burritos (a dish originating in the Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico / El Paso, Texas area).
Tortillas are also very similar to the unleavened bread popular in Semitic, eastern Mediterranean and southern Asian countries, though thinner and smaller in diameter. In China, there is the laobing , a pizza-shaped thick " pancake" that is similar to the tortilla.
Tortilla may refer to:
- tortilla de patatas, Spanish dish also known as a "Tortilla Española" or "Spanish Omelette."
- corn tortilla, Mexican and Central American ultra flat corn bread.
- flour tortilla, Mexican ultra flat wheat bread.
Tortilla is a fast food chain based in the United Kingdom.
Brandon Stephens from California founded Tortilla in London in 2007.
As of September 2015 it had 27 branches in the UK.
Usage examples of "tortilla".
On the exhausting ride home from Modena on the autostrada we stopped at a service area, where I bought Cesare a bag of American tortilla chips.
If none of you are familiar with Mex cooking, I suggest you let me order you some arroz con pollo, which tastes like plain American grub, only more so, with some tortillas which are sort of a cross betwixt pancakes and soda crackers, in taste at least.
They went to work on the green colts daybreak Sunday morning, dressing in the half dark in clothes still wet from their washing them the night before and walking out to the potrero before the stars were down, eating a cold tortilla wrapped around a scoop of cold beans and no coffee and carrying their fortyfoot maguey catchropes coiled over their shoulders.
Use the strips for a Chili Lime Pork Salad or a Chili Lime Pork Omelet, or just wrap them up in low-carb tortillas with a little salsa and sour cream.
Casually, Charley sauntered down to the end of the street of square two-story adobe buildings on which he lived, looked in every direction, ducked into the old kiva to pick up the tortillas and the canteen, and ran off into the scrubby underbrush that bordered the pueblo.
If none of you are familiar with Mex cooking, I suggest you let me order you some arroz con pollo, which tastes like plain American grub, only more so, with some tortillas which are sort of a cross betwixt pancakes and soda crackers, in taste at least.
I immediately work out a tasty pesto-tomato bruschette, quesadilla with garlic chicken, green chile enchiladas, a chili-stuffed steak, arroz verde and a nice quasi-Mexican cinnamon-sugared tortilla cup in which to serve ice cream.
They spent a few moments of silence wrapping flour tortillas around the succulent beef, grilled onions, and assorted fajita fixings.
So the Herrera home was filled with fresh flowers and the caterers set up a Mexican lunch of beans, rice, fajitas and tortillas.
For forty years he had been folding tortillas at the same location, and in an identical white polyester guayabera shirt.
When the last mule headed toward Jalapa, I walked over to a nearby indio hut and purchased a tortilla as my breakfast.
For the tortillas and refritos whipped up by her former Jicarilla kinswoman had hardly any taste at all.
Then a tureen of albondigas soup, and afterward tortillas, tacos, a decent turkey mole.
Carmelita bustled about the room, pouring Wine, passing platters of steaming tortillas and trays heaped with spicy meats and chilis, along with slabs of roast beef.
Tortilla after Tortilla, she ignored me, and then kept right on ignoring me through cutting up vegetables for the colache and frying the chorizos in vinegar and brandy.