Cheese tortillas in a frying pan

Simple but very tasty cheese tortillas. Excellent cheese tortillas that can be made from simple ingredients in a matter of minutes. Such tortillas are suitable for breakfast, as a basis for sandwiches; for lunch, as an addition to soup and for unexpected guests, as a treat for tea.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 24 % 12 g
Fats 16 % 8 g
Carbohydrates 59 % 29 g
239 kcal
GI: 4 / 0 / 96

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to bake cheese tortillas in a frying pan? Prepare the specified products for the preparation of cheese tortillas. Products for cooking can be taken directly from the refrigerator. Kefir I have 3.2% fat content, cheese I took "Russian", premium flour, pre-sifted with baking powder. Prepare a non-stick frying pan for frying tortillas.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Pour kefir into a deep bowl, add sugar, salt and soda to it, and mix everything. You can use a whisk or a regular fork. Leave the bowl for five minutes.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    After five minutes, add the cheese pre-grated on a coarse grater to the liquid ingredients. Mix everything evenly.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Add the sifted flour in parts to the bowl and mix each time.Flour may require more or less of the specified amount. It depends on the properties and quality of the flour. Therefore, when mixing, focus on the consistency of the dough. Knead a thick elastic dough and assemble it into a ball. The consistency of this dough turns out to be very soft, tender and sticky.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Divide the finished dough into several equal parts. Roll each part into a bun, then roll it out on a board into a flat cake. The koloboks are well rolled into tortillas with flour and without flour on the table.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Heat a non-stick frying pan (I don't know if they will cook in a regular frying pan, I haven't tried it) over high heat, then turn down the heat. Place the tortilla in a dry frying pan and fry on each side for five minutes with the lid closed over medium heat. The time will depend on the thickness of the products themselves, the thicker, the more time it may take to prepare them.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Ready-made tortillas with cheese are good both hot and warm, and cooled down. Perfect for breakfast, lunch and a casual snack.

This simple recipe will be a great solution for making a quick but delicious treat for breakfast or just for tea. It seems to be a very simple composition, but the tortillas turn out very tasty. Also, this recipe will become a base for experiments - you can add chopped fresh herbs, garlic, spices to them and you will get a completely different treat. A successful recipe that everyone needs to try.

Be prepared for the fact that flour may need more or less than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. To avoid mistakes, read about flour and its properties!

Is it possible to replace baking powder with soda, how to add them correctly so that the baking is lush, how to avoid an unpleasant soda taste and much more, read the article "Baking powder or baking soda - which is better?"  

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Uglich cheese - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Kefir fat - 62   kcal/100g
  • Kefir of 1% fat content - 38   kcal/100g
  • Low-fat kefir - 30   kcal/100g
  • Kefir "doctor beefy" 1,8% fat content - 45   kcal/100g
  • Kefir 2.5% fat content - 53   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Baking powder - 79   kcal/100g

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