Encyclopedia > Tostada

Article Content

Tostada

(adj) Spanish for "toasted."
(n) In Mexican cuisine, a toasted or fried flat tortilla.
(n) An appetizer made of a tostada (previous meaning) topped —usually— with a thin layer of refried black bean paste, chicken or beef strips or other kinds of animal products (such as pickled pig's feet), thinly chopped lettuce strips, sour cream, and usually garnished with chopped onion and salsa.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Royalist

... can have several shades of meaning. At its simplest, it refers to an adherent of a monarch or royal family. Of the more specific uses of the term, the most commo ...