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Tortilla

A tortilla is soft and sold fresh. Cooks bake it or use it to wrap meat, beans, vegetables, or eggs.

Texture
Soft
Cooked most in
The Americas, Europe
Top country
Mexico
Tortilla, whole

Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use tortilla

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Wrap

Goes well with

  • meat
  • bean
  • vegetable
  • egg

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Soft

Shopping

Choosing and storing tortilla

Sold as
Fresh
Availability
Supermarkets (01M6Z352NF65TADVVWC2V1KKFY); Supermarkets (01M6Z353KJBJMS0ZDRKBRG0R4Q)

Around the world

Where tortilla is cooked

6 dishes in the catalogue use tortilla. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list tortilla among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. The 1950s

    Mass-produced tortillas became common during the 1950s.

On the table

Dishes made with tortilla

6 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Huevos rancheros

    Mexico

  • Casado

    Costa Rica

  • French tacos

    France

  • Quesabirria

    Mexico

  • Quesadilla

    Mexico

  • Tacos de lengua

    Mexico

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include tortilla.

Family

Related forms

Kinds
wheat tortilla

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What tortilla is called

Names in 60 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    tortilla

  • French

    tortilla

  • Italian

    tortilla

  • Portuguese

    tortilla

  • German

    Tortilla

  • Dutch

    Mexicaanse tortilla

  • Turkish

    tortilla

  • Russian

    тортилья

  • Polish

    tortilla

  • Arabic

    الترتية · خبز الترتية

  • Persian

    تورتیلا

  • Hebrew

    טורטייה

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  • Armenian

    Տորտիլյա

  • Bangla

    তোরতিয়া

  • Basque

    tortilla

  • Betawi

    Roti lèmpèng bunder

  • Bulgarian

    тортиля

  • Cantonese

    墨西哥薄餅

  • Catalan

    tortilla

  • Chinese

    墨西哥薄饼 · 玉米餅

  • Croatian

    tortilja

  • Czech

    tortilla · tortila

  • Danish

    tortilla

  • Egyptian Arabic

    تورتيللا

  • Esperanto

    tortiljo

  • Estonian

    tortilla

  • Finnish

    tortilla · tortillalettu

  • Galician

    tortilla

  • Georgian

    ტორტილა

  • Hindi

    तोर्तिया

  • Hungarian

    tortilla

  • Icelandic

    tortilla

  • Indonesian

    tortilla

  • Interlingua

    tortilla

  • Irish

    toirtíle

  • Japanese

    トルティーヤ

  • Javanese

    tortilla

  • Kannada

    ತೊರ್ತೀಯಾ

  • Korean

    토르티야

  • Latin

    tortilla

  • Latvian

    tortilja

  • Lingua Franca Nova

    tortilia

  • Lithuanian

    tortilija

  • Macedonian

    тортилја

  • Malay

    tortilla

  • Malayalam

    തോർത്തിൽയ

  • Marathi

    तोर्तिया

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    tortilla

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    tortilla

  • ppl

    Tamal

  • Serbian

    тортиља

  • Slovenian

    tortilja

  • Swahili

    tortilla

  • Swedish

    tortilla

  • Tamil

    தார்த்தியா

  • Thai

    ตอร์ติยา

  • Ukrainian

    тортилья

  • Urdu

    تورتیا

  • Vietnamese

    tortilla

  • Welsh

    tortila

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q55642411

Photos

Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons