Honduras / Breakfast
Baleadas
A wheat flour tortilla folded over refried beans, soured cream and crumbled cheese.
Ingredients
- Flour400 g
- Lard or shortening60 g
- Hot water220 ml
- Red beans, cooked400 g
- Onion1
- Thick soured cream200 ml
- Salty white cheese150 g
- Eggs, optional4
- Avocado, optional1
- Vegetable oil40 ml
- Saltto taste
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Method 7 steps
Rub the flour with the fat and salt to a crumb, add the hot water and knead a soft dough.
Divide it into eight balls, oil them and rest them twenty minutes under a cloth.
Fry the onion in oil, add the cooked beans with some of their liquid and mash them smooth.
Fry the purée over medium heat for ten minutes, until it holds its shape on a spoon.
Roll the balls into thin twenty-centimetre rounds.
Cook them on a hot dry pan a minute a side, to spotted but not dried out.
Spread beans over half the tortilla, add cream and cheese, fold it over and serve hot.
