I am Mexican. I have lived in Guadalajara all my life. I know what different antojitos are named.
More tacos dorados:
http://guzoac-platillosymas.blogspot.com/2008/09/tacos-dorados-de-requesn.html
and they happen to be of requeson y queso and yet are not quesadillas!
you’re just gonna have to accept that other mexicans call them differen things.
when I am frying corn tortillas in hot oil on the stove and my family is asking me " cuando van estar listas las quesadillas" ? Should I say, well according to someone else, " no son quesadillas" . Even though our whole lives we have known them to be " quesadillas" ? What would you call them? Tacos dorados? Well for me tacos dorados are when they are rolled up and fried.
Then it appears that we have learned the names differently. That for me and my pueblo is a quesadilla, not a taco dorado. It it were rolled up then it would be a taco dorado. the fact that you can type quesadilla in google images (and fish past the american flour tortilla quesadillas) and get pictures of what I am referring to shows that many other places in mexico also call them this way.
I have posted photos of tacos dorados that are not rolled up. You are the one talking in absolutes, not me. Yes the rolled tacos are tacos dorados but they can also go by different names such as taquitos or flautas. But some are also simply just folded over and fried. I don’t know where you live but here in Guadalajara we don’t confuse tacos with quesadillas.
Im sorry when did I start talking in absolutes? Ive mentioned** several **times that different places in Mexico call things differently. I dont doubt that what I know as a quesadilla is for you simply a taco dorado. Ive explained already that different regions differ as far as names of food items. Just as tacos dorados ( rolled up ones) can go by different names ( taquitos and flautas) other food items are called different things as well.
I’ve visited my aunts friends in Guadalajara and they also called them quesadillas, fried on the stove and filled with either papa or pollo. Her friends are originally from san luis potosi but have lived in guadalajara for many years, but Im guessing them not being oringinally from guadalajara is why they dont call them as you do.
But you haven’t lived until you’ve tried the original Klingon recipe!
Sorry.
As to the OP, here’s the differences as I’ve experienced them here in North Central Washington (I’m not listing seasonings - just assume each item includes the appropriate seasoning):
Burrito: Meat and/or beans, often with cheese and sometimes with rice, and the meat is always either ground or chopped.
Chimichanga: Usually just meat, sometimes with cheese, and the meat is always shredded.
Both are generally folded so that both ends are closed, and both are typically filled only with hot (cooked) ingredients - either the hot ingredients are rolled up into the tortilla, or the ingredients are rolled up in the burrito and then the whole thing is cooked. Cold condiments such as salsa, sour cream, and guacamole are added after cooking.
Soft taco: Hot (cooked) meat (usually ground beef) that is placed on a tortilla and then topped with cold ingredients such as lettuce, diced tomatoes & onions, shredded cheese, and condiments such as salsa, sour cream/crema, and guacamole, and then rolled/folded with one or both ends left open. Basically, assembled the way you’d assemble a hard taco, but rolled up in a soft tortilla instead of a hard shell.
Very interesting discussion. So what’s the difference (in your region) between that taco dorado and a cheese-less quesadilla? Is it perhaps that one uses a corn tortilla and the other uses uncooked masa?
I’m just about ready to give up. It seems that you can use any name to refer to anything. Any Mexican dish can be called a taco, a burrito, a quesadilla, an enchilada, a chimichanga or a tostada.
I’m off to make some eggless huevos rancheros.
Tacos dorados are made with a corn tortilla and deep fried. Doesn’t matter if they are rolled or folded. Quesadillas can be the typical flour or corn tortilla folded over a cheese filling and heated on the comal. They can also be made with raw, fresh masa, filled and deep-fried. Or they can be made with raw, fresh masa, filled and then cooked on the comal until the masa is cooked.
This guy explains the differences simply and clearly in this video. Go to 1:50 for the relevant information.