Yes, I know. Comfort food has many names and shapes. Yours could be macaroni and cheese or your mother’s famous soup. Mine has a name too: Beef Tostadas; a flat crispy fried corn tortilla with Shredded beef or even with chicken or just plain beans, garnished with lettuce, tomato, onions, and fresh cheese without forgetting a good salsa to enhance the flavors.
Beef Tostadas Recipe
Some days when I find myself feeling the “nostalgia” of missing my home country, is the perfect excuse to prepare these delicious tostadas, listening to one of my favorites romantic Mexican radio stations via the internet. This combination seems to cure all kind of “blues” I may have. And for a moment, everything seems fine. It’s all good! (It will be interesting to know what are some of the comfort foods of other cultures).
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| Oven Baked Tostadas Process |
Note: A day-old tortillas are better for tostadas since they absorb less oil and laying them on your counter overnight will start the drying process. Place a kitchen towel and remove the tortillas from their plastic packing, layer and cover them with another towel.
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| Oven Baked Tostadas vs Fried Tostadas |
How to make Beef Tostadas Recipe
You will need 1 pound of Skirt steak, 1/4 pc. of a small onion, 2 garlic cloves, and 1 bay leaf. Place the ingredients in a stock pot filled with water and cook over medium heat. Cooking time will be about 2 hours until meat is tender enough to be shredded. Let it cool, season with salt and pepper.
Now to the assembly process
- Spread a small amount of the refried beans on one side of each tostada. About 2 tablespoons. Then add the shredded meat evenly among the tostadas. (Please check the ingredients list below)
- Top the tostada with lettuce, onion, and tomato.
- Sprinkle with the crumbled cheese and avocado. Serve immediately.
BEEF TOSTADAS RECIPE
Ingredients
- 6 Corn tostadas
- 1 cup refried beans, warm
- 2 cups cooked and shredded skirt steak or your favorite meat veggie or seafood
- 3 cups Shredded romaine lettuce
- 1 medium size tomato chopped
- 1/2 small onion diced
- 1 cup crumbled queso fresco Feta and Parmesan are a good substitution.
- 1 avocado diced or sliced
- 1/2 cup Mexican cream or Creme Fraiche
- A good salsa of your choice
For the meat:
- You can use leftover meat from a different cut of meat. Shred it or cut in small bite-size pieces. If you are starting from scratch cook the meat earlier or the day before. I like to cook the meat in the morning and always make enough to freeze and use in other dishes.
- For this recipe, you will need 1 pound of Skirt steak 1/4 pc. of a small onion, 2 garlic cloves, and 1 bay leaf. Place the ingredients in a stock pot filled with water and cook over medium heat. Cooking time will be about 2 hours until meat is tender enough to be shredded. Let it cool, season with salt and pepper. But I always cook more that one pound. Meat cooked this way is great for tacos, sopes sandwiches and much, much more.
Instructions
Now to the assembly process
- Spread a small amount of the refried beans on one side of each tostada. About 2 tablespoons. Then add the shredded meat evenly among the tostadas
- Top the tostada with lettuce, onion, and tomato.
- Sprinkle with the crumbled cheese and avocado. Let your guests or family members add the cream to their liking. Serve immediately.
Do not forget to have a hot salsa and lots of napkins handy.
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And now, let me ask you: What is the name of your favorite comfort food?
Mely Martinez,
Prieta
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Un abrazo,
Mely
Se vé tan delicioso. I think, with all its wonderful components, Tostadas could be easily enjoyed for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
I love tostadas… so easy to prepare… such a simple yummy summer meal 🙂
Try adding more beans and skipping the meat; OR
Try skipping the beans and meat and use guacomole as substitute.
Have a meat, bean and guacomole tostado trio for dinner!
Thanks for sharing you tostadas combination. I love the beans and fresh cheese combination.
Happy cooking.
looks delicious
Mom always made refried beans-and-chorizo, tacos, machacado-and-egg tacos, bacon-and-egg tacos, papas-a-la-mejicana-tacos, frijoles with freshly-made red salsa, beans refried in bacon drippings or potato-and-egg tacos for breakfast, but since we loved snacking on them at all times, she would make a lot of the filler and we would just run over to the stove, grab a freshly-made flour tortilla, fill it up with whatever was in the pan and eat to our hearts’ content. Those were some great times. She would also prepare a gallon of freshly-brewed Nestea, squeeze tons of limes into it, sweeten it and left it in the refrigerator so we could enjoy with our scrumptious tacos. Those were such great times!
Thank you for explaining how to dry, oil and bake or fry tostadas from leftover tortillas. I finely chopped a veggie burger and used it on top of retried bean tostadas. You do an excellent job of showing the authentic recipes. I then try to adapt it to a vegetarian form.