Easy Homemade Tostadas – A Beautiful Mess

Tostadas are a easy and tremendous customizable meal with Mexican origins. With a base of a toasted tortilla (or generally deep fried) and topped with any variety of toppings like seasoned floor meat, shredded meats, refried beans, black beans, lettuce, tomato, cilantro, cheese and generally sauces. I consider tostadas as an open face taco with a crunchy tortilla for the bottom. Scrumptious!

Whereas there are lots of methods to customise a tostada, I’m focusing this recipe on how we sometimes make them at residence: tostada shell, refried beans, seasoned floor beef, lettuce, tomato, cilantro, cheese, and both bitter cream or what I name “quesadilla sauce.” This can be a fast and straightforward weeknight meal that our complete household loves though our son normally skips the vegetable toppings.

Associated: Love straightforward weeknight meals? Subsequent up, attempt our stuffed peppers or sheet pan totchos.

Elements

• Tostada shells* – or corn tortillas
• Refried beans
• Floor beef – or floor turkey or floor rooster
• Taco seasoning – retailer purchased or make your individual
• Cheese – Cotija, Cheddar, Mozzarella, and so forth.
• Lettuce
• Tomato
• Bitter cream – or quesadilla sauce, see beneath

*Tostada shells are generally labeled as Estilo Casero (which suggests homestyle), however look within the tortilla shell part of wherever you store for groceries. However if you happen to can’t discover them, I’ll share earlier than how one can make your individual.

Methods to Make Tostada Shells

You may make your individual tostada shells by pan frying corn tortillas. Add sufficient vegetable oil or canola oil to a frying pan to cowl/barely submerge the tortilla. Warmth over medium/excessive warmth till the oil is sizzling. Then add the shell, fry for 1-2 minutes. Flip, utilizing tongs, and cook dinner for one more 1-2 minutes. Take away to paper towels to permit extra oil to drip off. Repeat for as many shells as you want.

If you would like the tostada shells to be barely formed like a bowl, drape paper towels over inverted bowls after which take away the shells from the oil to those. The fried shells will dry over the bowls and tackle this form.

Methods to make Tostadas

First, cook dinner the bottom beef. In a skillet or giant pan, cook dinner the bottom beef over medium warmth, breaking it up in small items together with your cooking spoon or spatula. Season with the taco seasoning as you cook dinner. The meat ought to be cooked by means of with no pink remaining. Take away from warmth.

On a baking sheet, assemble the tostada bases on this order: shell, a skinny layer of refried beans, meat, and cheese.

Bake at 400°F for 8-10 minutes, till the cheese may be very melted.

High with greens, extra cheese (if you’d like) and bitter cream or different condiments. Throw some sizzling sauce on if you happen to like. Take pleasure in!

Ideas & Notes

• Quesadilla sauce = 1/4 cup mayo, 1/4 cup bitter cream, 1 teaspoon cumin, 1 teaspoon paprika, 1/2 teaspoon onion powder, and 1/4 teaspoon chili powder. I’ll sprinkle slightly cayenne in if I’m wanting so as to add some warmth.
• I wish to serve these extra like tacos, the bottom is made after which everybody will get so as to add their toppings. So, after baking is the place my household takes over customizing their very own.
• You’ll be able to partially make these forward, by having the meat already cooked. Then you definitely simply assemble and bake earlier than including toppings, which make throwing dinner collectively tremendous straightforward!
• Different nice toppings embody salsa or guacamole.

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