A tortilla is a thin, circular unleavened flatbread originally made from maize hominy meal, and now also from wheat flour. The Aztecs and other Nahuatl speakers called tortillas tlaxcalli . First made by the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica before colonization, tortillas are a cornerstone of Mesoamerican cuisine. Corn tortillas in Mesoamerica are known from as early as 500 BCE.
Tortilla
Mesoamerican flat bread
Subcategories:
Baleadaes
Corn tortilla
Flour tortilla
Piki bread
Tayuyo
Tortilla chip
Tortilla de rescoldo
Totopo
Characteristic of:
American cuisine
Belizean cuisine
Costa Rican cuisine
Guatemalan cuisine
Honduran cuisine
Mesoamerican cuisine
Mexican cuisine
Salvadoran cuisine
Contains, including ancestors:
Wheat
Also known as:
Wikidata ID:
Q55642411
Wikipedia title:
Tortilla
References:
Inbound Links
Unlinked Mentions
Article content licensed under CC-BY-SA; original content from Wikimedia Foundation; image data under CC-BY-SA from Wikimedia Foundation
ID: 17776