What are tortillas?

tortillas are unpleasant flat breads made of corn or wheat flour, water and salt. They are widely used throughout Latin America, but are most closely associated with Mexican cuisine, where they form most of the nutritional income for poor Mexicans. Tortillas are used in food such as tacos, burritos or quesadillas, and when they stop, they are fried and used for chips, chilaquils or tortilla soup, also known as Sopa Azeca . The term is also used in Spain to reference to the type of flat omelet and root for both words is the same: torta or a small cake. The tortilla flour was later invention and are not widespread in Mexico because the corn is more nutritious and usually cheaper. Although Tortilly's machines are used for commercial production, home tortillas are widely used in Mexico and other parts of the world with large immigration communities. Domestic tortillas tend to be more flexible, with a more intense taste of corn that some people consider to be ashamedmore good.

To make tortillas, the chef begins with the entire dried corn and cooks it in a pot of water and calcium hydroxide, colloquially called cough lime or tequesquite in Mexico. Calcium hydroxide is an alkaline mineral that releases the skin of corn and releases nutrients held inside. This is one of the reasons why the tortilla is so nutritious: cough lime releases nutrients tied so that the consumer can benefit from them. Then the cook crushes the mixture with the stone and regularly adds water to turn the mixture to a smooth paste that can be formed on the balls. Traditionally, the balls are hand -made into perfectly even tortiles, which are ready to cook on the grate.

MANY HOME COOKS, which create tortillas, use tortilla prints, devices that are designed to produce even round tortillas by compressing between two heavy metals. Commercially produced tortillas are often produced nAnd huge assembly lines with cutters and cylinders that can produce tortillas even faster than tortilla printing. When packaging tortillas are for transport, they are usually frozen to remain fresh. Mexico exports tortillas around the world, but the market in Mexico for wrapped tortillas is in fact relatively small, because cooks consider to be cheaper to produce tortillas at home and prefer domestic flavors.

In 2006, concerns about the nutritional crisis in Mexico were raised for climbing maize prices, which in turn influenced poor Mexican families. In early 2007, the Mexican government began to think about ways to avert it, including government subsidies for corn. The loss of traditional tortures would be devastating to poor mexicinals that rely on their nutrition, but also on Mexican culture in general, because tortilla is an essential part of Mexican cuisine.