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Wheat tortilla

Also called flour tortilla

A wheat tortilla is made with wheat flour, water, and table salt, sometimes with baking powder. Cooks stuff it with ingredients such as meat, potato, or cheese and serve it with hot sauce.

  • Contains gluten
  • Allergen: wheat
  • Allergen: gluten cereals

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Cooked most in
The Americas
Top country
Mexico
Wheat tortilla, whole

Photo: Ocdp · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use wheat tortilla

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Stuff

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing wheat tortilla

Availability
Supermarkets (01M6Z352MTDQFQAEKWJF57XQ4V); Supermarkets (01M6Z352MM21KPRAMV4YX2ASXF)

Around the world

Where wheat tortilla is cooked

4 dishes in the catalogue use wheat 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 wheat tortilla among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. The 1500s · Mexico

    Flour tortillas were invented after Spain brought wheat to Mexico.

  2. 1845 · Mexico

    A Mexican cookbook included a recipe for flour tortillas.

  3. 1985 · United States

    American spaceflights began using wheat tortillas as a way to avoid loose bread crumbs.

On the table

Dishes made with wheat tortilla

4 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Enfrijoladas

    Mexico

  • Quesadilla

    Mexico

  • Burrito

    Mexico

  • Tostada

    Mexico

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: wheat tortilla in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: wheat, gluten cereals
Gluten
Contains

Family

Related forms

A kind of
tortilla

Cooked together

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

What wheat tortilla is called

Names in 25 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    tortilla de trigo · tortilla de harina de trigo · tortilla de harina

  • French

    tortilla de blé · tortilla au blé · toritlla de farine de blé

  • Portuguese

    tortilha de trigo

  • German

    Weizen-Tortilla

  • Dutch

    tarwetortilla

  • Russian

    пшеничная тортилья

  • Arabic

    تُرتِلَّة القمح · تورتيللا القمح

  • Hebrew

    טורטייה מקמח

  • Chinese

    麵粉薄餅

  • Japanese

    フラワートルティーヤ

  • Korean

    밀 토르티야

  • Thai

    ตอร์ติยาข้าวสาลี

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  • Catalan

    tortilla de blat · tortilla de farina de blat

  • Czech

    pšeničná tortilla · pšeničná tortila

  • Danish

    hvedetortilla

  • Egyptian Arabic

    تورتيللا القمح

  • Esperanto

    tritika tortiljo

  • Galician

    torta de trigo

  • Irish

    toirtíle cruithneachta

  • Javanese

    tortilla glepung · tortilla gandum

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    hvetetortilla

  • Slovenian

    pšenična tortilja

  • Swedish

    vetetortilla

  • Ukrainian

    пшенична тортилья

  • Vietnamese

    Nấu ăn:Tortilla

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: Q204251

Photos

Photo: Ocdp · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons