Recipe for a torta!

If you have a field trip, are going to the beach, or need an easy dinner, you have to make a torta (Mexican Sandwich). They’re delicious, require a few ingredients, and make you want more than one. Tortas can be traced back to the 1800s to workers and students eating them due to their easy assembly and low cost. This was revolutionary at the time because the bread used for tortas(bolillo) became popular. In the state of Puebla and Mexico City, flavors like breaded chicken, ham, cheese, and more created a whole category for tortas at every Mexican restaurant. Today there are new forms of tortas, there are tortas ahogadas, a normal torta indulge in sauce, and guajolota, a tamale in a bolillo. Tortas are like pregnancy carvings, you need them even though they’re a little strange. Personally, I see why the torta became popular. It’s easy to stuff anything between two pieces of bread: a little butter or mayonnaise, vegetables, and protein. When I was younger I remember my mom would give me a less mainstreamed torta, just scrambled eggs and beans between a bolillo and it was just as delicious as this recipe.

you will need…

• Bollilo(roll)
• Two slices of ham
• Mozzarella cheese
• Refried beans
• Pickled jalapeños
• Avocado
• Lettuce
• Tomato
• Butter/mayoneise
• A pan

Start up by heating up the pan and adding butter to the surface. Cut your roll in the middle so that it can open up like a butterfly and add more butter using a butter knife and spread it. Toast your roll on the side where you spread the butter on the pan and toast it to your liking, I like a golden brown look for that crunch. 

After toasting the bread add more butter to the pan and add the slices of hams till they get a brown color on both sides. While waiting for the ham to get nice brown add the refried beans to one side and spread it. Add cheese to eat a slice of ham and once melted, flip them onto each other and add it to the sandwich. make sure to turn off the pan.

You could leave it as it is and eat it but I love toppings. slice the avocado and add some salt because that is the only way to eat it. cut your tomato and add it to the torta and add it as well as the lettuce. I love spicy food