any good uses for small corn tortillas?

Question

i've always been fascinated how cheaply you can buy those huge stacks of little corn tortillas, but i can never find any good use for them. any relatively simple ideas?

Answer 1

Fry them until crisp and then eat with salsa

Answer 2

They're for making soft tacos which are ultra-simple. (Or anything else that's made with a tortilla. When they get stale and stiff you can make chilaquiles with them...look for a recipe online for that...)

For soft tacos, you just heat the tortillas and have a bowl of whatever filling you want to wrap up inside. Example: get a rotisserie chicken and shred the meat, heat it if it's not hot, and put it in a bowl; put a spoonful of shredded chicken on a nice hot tortilla, and you have a soft chicken taco. You could also slice up leftover steak in thin little strips and use that for taco filling.

It would be nice to have some salsa on the table, too, for people to add to their tacos. And chop up a bunch of fresh cilantro so that people can sprinkle that on. And you can mash up an avocado, with some lime juice and salt (now you have guacamole to put on the tacos).

Crucial part: How to heat tortillas. (Cold tortillas are no good at all!)
1. With a gas burner: Turn the burner on low. Take a stack of at least 3 tortillas (for one person) and not more than a dozen at a time. Place DIRECTLY on the burner. (That's why you have the flame low, so the tortillas will toast and not burn.) After maybe 30 seconds, pick up the whole stack (which you may be able to do with your bare hand) and turn it over so the top tortilla is now on the bottom. The tortilla closest to the flame should start getting some toasty brown speckles (it can even get some slightly burned -looking spots). When that happens, separate the stack of tortillas like you're cutting a deck of cards, and change the arrangement of the stack, so that a tortilla that was in the middle is now on the bottom. Keep doing this till each tortilla has some toasty speckles. Wrap the stack of tortillas up in a cloth napkin so they won't get cold too fast. Use instantly to wrap tacos (each person makes one taco at a time please so the rest of the tortillas will stay with the stack and keep warm).

2. With an electric burner: Put a skillet or griddle on the burner. Turn the burner to medium. Do not grease the skillet. Heat the stack of tortillas in the dry skillet.

3. Can I heat a stack of tortillas, wrapped in foil, in the oven? Yes, if you must. But it will take an unnecessarily long time, and they won't get the toasty spots.

4. Can I heat tortillas in the microwave? You could but it's not really recommended. They get a weird damp-ish texture in the microwave and they don't get the toasty spots that they're supposed to have.

Answer 3

the main magnificent enchilatas ever! it ought to be some extra aspects than you have yet its sooo properly worth it. Sauce: a million great can- chopped ortega chilis a million great can- chopped stewed tomatoes a million can- cream of rooster a million bunch- eco-friendly onions chopped in a million/2 inch lengths a million- jalapeno chopped (deseeded or no longer counting on the form you like your warmth... bypass warm!) a million tsp salt a million tsp pepper a million tsp cumin Filling: Shredded rotissere rooster Mexian bitter cream Shredded Montery Jack cheese a million can -southwestern form corn Shells: Vegtable oil Corn tortillas cook dinner the sauce until that's simmering and enable take a seat on the range. In a baking dish unfold a skinny layer of the sauce on the bottem. warmth oil. Fry the tortillas separately until they're pliable yet no longer confusing the dip them interior the sauce. Plave the tortilla interior the baking dish, fill with the rooster, corn, cheese and a small dalop of bitter cream and fold the aspects of the torilla over so that's a lose burrito shape and scoot to the realm. After filling the enchilatas unfold a layer of cheese over the perfect with some sliced olives. cook dinner at 350 until golden brown aaaand scrumptious. it is the form of physically powerful recipe! My boyfriend's mom makes those for her husband each year for his bday.

Answer 4

Corn tortillas are not as pliable as wheat or flour ones.

I use the small corn tortillas to make enchilada casseroles.

Pan
Tortillas
Meat
Beans
Veggies

Repeat layers until the pan is full
Top with cheese

Bake at 350 until cheese is bubbly.

Answer 5

Cut them into sixths and deep fry them quickly for chips. Salt while hot. Also they are good heated up and eaten with many different kinds of beans. You can put meat inside and use as a sandwich. I use the flour tortillas for dumplings! Just cut them into 1 x2 pieces and drop into the boiling chicken broth. Add butter,salt and pepper and chicken. When dumplings are done add about 1/2 c of milk and heat thoroughly. You!My grandson eats flour tortillas with peanut butter, choc chips, and marshmallow cream and he puts it in the microwave for 20 seconds to melt. Best wishes!

Answer 6

Cut into small strips and deep fry for with soups, like them for tortilla soup (spicy chicken soup with larger chunks of veggies, shredded chicken and cheese). Can also cut into fours and deep fry (or pan fry in oil) for a quick batch of hot nachos. Have you tried pan frying them dry and used them then crumbled for a bread topping on some other dishes? Good in making pan lazanchadas (goofy name, made like lasagna, but out of all enchilada stuff, layered instead of rolled). Could be worth a shot, have fun and enjoy, and heck, if you ruin a batch, at least you did not waste a bunch of money right?

Answer 7

Not sure which size you are referring to. I use corn tortillas for enchiladas, tacos, quesadillas, or simply spread with butter, salt and eat them like that.

Answer 8

Heat up the torillas both sides, then put refried beans, grilled chicken strips and cheese on it, and have yourself a yummy burrito!!

I eat those after I work out from the gym, and the burritos just melted in your mouth. So good!

Answer 9

You could make small enchiladas. Fill them with tuna and cheese, and heat them in the microwave, unitl the cheese is melted. You can make small tacos. Fill them with hot refried beans, or something. You could break them up and make nachos.

Answer 10

1 cut in triangles deep fried with salsa
2 cut into strips and deep fried to eat with salad
3 sometimes i cook curry and wrap some lamb, beef or chicken curry with the tortillas and bake it
4 eat with curry like nan

AND MANY MORE...BE CREATIVE...it wont hurt.