Friday, July 23, 2010

Tacos-Mexican Food Easy To Make

By Daniel Perez

Tacos-Mexican food that is enjoyed by many and very popular. A taco is corn tortilla filled with toppings as your choice. This can include beef, chicken, and even rice. For breakfast tacos, eggs can be the topping placed into the tortilla. You do not need any utensils to eat this Mexican food. There are a variety of ways you can make a taco, but here are some easy steps to get started on creating your own version of tacos.

The most important step is to have your tortilla. You can choose between a corn or a flour tortilla. You can also choose to have crunchy or you can have soft tacos. To create a corn tortilla, you can buy ready-mix corn, which only requires you to add water. A tortilla press would be needed to flatten the tortilla. You then blend the dough with your hands for about 20 minutes. Then continue by taking the dough and creating balls, the size of a golf ball. The ball of dough should be placed inside the tortilla press, and closed tightly to flatten to make a circle. You would then take the flattened though and place it on the skillet for about 30-40 seconds, before flipping it over to the other side and repeating for 30-40 seconds. You then have a corn tortilla ready to make your soft taco.

The steps are almost the same for flour tortilla. You would purchase ready-mix flour, requiring you to add only water. You blend the dough the same way you blend the corn tortilla. To make flour tortilla, you will not need the tortilla press, but a roller pin to flatten out the tortilla into a 7-8 inch circle. After you have made your flour into a flattened circle, you would repeat the same steps as the corn tortilla on the skillet.

To make crunchy tacos, or hard-shell tacos, you would need to fry the corn tortilla using cooking oil. You would need to make the tortilla into a U-shape before placing it in the oil. Making it into the U-shape gives room to place the fillings, once the tortilla is ready. After your tortilla becomes a hard-shell, all that is left to do is add on your fillings.

These steps might seem a little complicated, or you might not have the required ingredients. If so, you can always purchase a pack of tortilla already made from your supermarket. The only steps you would need is to heat them up either on your microwave or skillet.

With your ready tortilla, all you need to do is fill it up with the cooked topping of your choice and enjoy. Some ideas include, beef, chicken, rice, beans. You can top it with cheese, onion, avocado, salsa, or hot sauce to create some enjoyable tacos. To make breakfast tacos, you can add egg, bacon, or even sausage onto your the tortilla of your choice.

When creating the tortillas, some people enjoy spreading margarine on their hot tortilla. The margarine melts quickly and creates a delicious snack, while you wait for your tacos to be prepared. Although this is not known as a taco, another popular choice is melted cheese onto the corn or flour tortilla. Many people know this as a quesadilla.

Tacos-Mexican Food that can be made into many different ways. Out of all the Mexican dishes out there, tacos is one of the most easiest and popular Mexican food.

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