Please pass the tortillas?

Question

Where did this come from-Indians or Mexicans?
Do you make it yourself? Can it be made from Wheat? What do you know about it?

Thank-you lots of information

I can not choose--so many great answers.

Answer 1

The Spanish language term tortilla [torˈtiʝa] can be used to mean several different dishes, depending on the area. In Mexican and Mesoamerican terms, a tortilla is a kind of unleavened bread, generally made from maize (corn) and with the introduction of wheat by the Europeans, also with wheat flour. This is the most common usage of the term in English.

In Spain, tortilla stands for omelette, and is thus made up of battered eggs, with other ingredients added at will. The terms Spanish tortilla, tortilla española or tortilla de patatas all refer to a common recipe in Spain, an omelette with stir-fried potatoes and chopped onion, often served as a staple food in Spanish bars and cafés.

As an easy solution to both the problems of handling food in microgravity and preventing bread crumbs from escaping into delicate instruments, tortillas (of the American flavor) have been used on many NASA Shuttle missions since 1985.

Answer 2

Indians made something called flat bread--I don't know if it's the same as tortillas or not.Yeah,you can make them from wheat,they sell them in the store anyways.I buy Maseca when I want to make tortillas,the corn ones.You can also make flour ones,but it's a pain to roll out the tortillas in perfect circles.I can never do it right and it's easier to buy them.To make corn ones with maseca,all you do is put the maseca in a bowl and add enough water to make the dough kinda like playdough.Then you use this tortilla-press thingie to press out the tortillas.Then you cook em on a griddle.Theres directions on the maseca bag.

Now I'm done with my cooking class for the day!*One more thing:homemade are way better than store bought.
Oh,and whats this gotta do with immigration?Oh well.

Answer 3

Tortillas were first made from maiz(corn). They are made from flour,baking powder,salt water and lard(not cooking oil). Don't try to eat healthy with tortillas. If you're going to eat them,great if not,leave it alone. You can pick some up at any mexican bakery or ask at your local mexican restaurant to see if they sell them by the dozen and how much.
Oh,they were introduced to the Spaniards by the Incas who had been making them throughout their history. But the spaniards were'nt to crazy about eating anything made of corn thinking that corn was more suited for animal feed for their horses than human consumption.
The recipe was brought back to Europe where Spanish cooks started using white flour and reintroduced it to the Indians in Mexico.

Answer 4

Mexico, Heres more info>
The traditional tortilla has been made of corn or maize since Pre-Columbian times. It is made by curing maize in lime water, grinding and pre-cooking it, kneading it into a dough called masa nixtamalera, pressing it flat into thin patties, and cooking it on a very hot comal (originally a flat terra cotta griddle, now usually made instead of light sheet-metal).

Soaking the maize in lime water is important because it liberates the vitamin niacin and the amino acid tryptophan. When maize was brought back to Europe, Africa and Asia from the New World, people left out this crucial step. People whose diet consisted mostly of corn meal often became sick with the disease pellagra, which was common in Spain, Italy and the southern United States

Answer 5

From the Indians, who later became Mexicans. Yes people do make them at home, they are the best!!! You can make them with wheat, the flour tortillas type that is...

Answer 6

There are very few cultures that don't use a tortilla like form of unleavened bread. It's a civilization thang.
Some would have you believe that the very dawn of mass civilization was based on the domestication/agriculture of grain like crops. Corn, rice, wheat. Without these basic food staffs, man would have had to continue to be a hunter gather, which would have made it nearly impossible to grow such huge populations of people, as we have today on the planet.

Answer 7

They came from southwest Indians, who later became Mexicans when Spain conquered them as well as Mexico. You can make it yourself, it can be made from wheat(although it was originally made from corn). I lived in Albuquerque for awhile and vistied the Indian Cultural Center there. You would be surprised how much of Mexico's recipes come from our own native southwest indians.

Answer 8

Native Americans (North America) eat what they call fry bread. It is goooood!!! It's nothing like a tortilla. The fry bread that I make takes all day because you use yeast in it and let it raise up twice. Each time takes at least two hours! It's well worth the wait. You fry it in hot oil and it raises up real nice and bubbly. My husband loves it!

Answer 9

Looks like everything falls into the category of immigration, huh? You got great answers, though. I love them in heath wraps too. Seems like tortillas are everywhere!

Answer 10

You can make it from wheat, but I think they were originally from corn. You mash the wheat or corn into powder, mix with baking soda and shortening, salt and water, and pan fry it.

I'd bet it is from the Indians, they certainly ground grain and corn, mixed it with water and baked it.