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Preparation info
  • Makes

    10

    tostadas
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Birrias: 65 Recipes from Traditional to Modern

By Jesse Valenciana

Published 2025

  • About

Tostadas taught me what texture could add to a dish. I will never forget eating tostadas at a food stand on the side of the road that my dad had taken me to. My nine-year-old mind was blown at how much there was going on. There was warm shredded chicken topped with cool crema, wet lettuce, and tomatoes all atop the crunchiest tostada. With this recipe I tried to recreate that memory and did my best to play a time-traveling warlock that goes back in time to make a perfect food memory even mo