Easy Tostada Recipe

Tostada: Crispy fried corn tortillas topped with refried beans, cheese, avocado, tomato, shredded crunchy cabbage, and salsa. It’s like the ultimate giant nacho.

A tostada is a toasted tortilla. Tostada literally means toasted. The toasted tortillas turn into crispy, crunchy, giant round chips used as bases for other dishes. Tostadas can also refer to any dish that use tostada shells as a base. Think of them as an open face crispy taco or a crunchy flat taco. Anything that you can put in a taco, you can put on a tostada. Topped tostadas usually start with a base of refried beans (which help the other toppings stay on), meat, vegetables, and salsa. They’re savory, crunchy, flavor-packed goodness.

Ingredients:

• 4 corn tortillas
• 1/2 cup refried beans
• 1/2 cup protein of choice, per post
• 1 cup lettuce shredded
• 2 tbsp sour cream optional
• 1/4 cup tomatoes diced
• 2 tbsp onion diced
• 2 tbsp queso fresco or cojita, crumbled
• 1 tbsp cilantro chopped