Tortillas are at the heart of many Mexican dishes and they can be made of flour (more common in northern Mexico) or corn\/maize (the more traditional kind most common in southern Mexico). Tortillas can be served alongside a meal like bread, fried as chips and served with salsa or baked for enchiladas, fried for tacos or grilled for quesadillas.<\/p>\n
Tacos are probably the most well known and consumed Mexican dish. Enchiladas are tortillas stuffed with vegetables and meat then folded and covered in a tomato and chili sauce and baked. Quesadillas are tortillas stuffed with cheese (and other ingredients), folded and grilled. A burrito is a tortilla filled with meat and other stuff. And finally there\u2019s the tamale. This treat is a cornmeal paste wrapped in corn husks often stuffed with meat and\/or vegetables, then steamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tortillas are at the heart of many Mexican dishes and they can be made of flour (more common in northern Mexico) or corn\/maize (the more traditional kind most common in southern Mexico). Tortillas can be served alongside a meal like bread, fried as chips and served with salsa or baked for enchiladas, fried for tacos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":47079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cooking"],"yoast_head":"\n