Every grocery store I’ve been in, has TORTILLA chips. Now, I LIKE tortilla chips - if I’m going to make nachos. But if I want to snack - or have something to go with my enchiladas, I want TOSTADA chips. Help! Where can I get tostada chips?? (These are the ones you find in mexican restaurants)
1 bag tostada shells + 1 hammer = tostada chips.
You must not be looking very hard. I find it difficult to locate the good tortilla chips through all the sacks of crappy tostada chips. To each his own I guess. HEB has a house brand tostada chip that will be right up your alley.\
Oh, and if I find a mexican restaurant that has tostada chips on the table, I turn around and walk out.
I’m afraid I don’t understand the question. My dictionary defines “tostada” as: A tortilla or tortilla chip deep-fried until crisp. Wikipedia seems to concur, with the additional note that toasted bread or French Toast may also be called “tostada”.
Are you looking for flour chips, as opposed to corn? Tostidos has those now; they’re really good.
There is a subtle distinction. Heathens eat tostada chips, while true devotees eat tortilla chips. If you put beans in what you are calling chili, then you probably serve it with tostada chips. If you love fine guacamole, salsas and tex-mex food, you eat them with tortilla chips.
Sorry, I need more help than that:
Subtle, indeed. Both are chips…made from corn tortillas…which are deep fried.
Is this like the grits/polenta thing?
I’m not getting the difference here. Is one thicker than the other? Corn vs flour? Salted vs unsalted? I didn’t really get any distinction subtle or otherwise from the Wiki article.
Yeah, sorta. Tortilla chips are generally lighter, thinner, finer than the coarser, thicker, heavier tostada chips. You can get crappy tortilla chips that are more like tostada chips and finer tostada chips that are more like tortilla chips. If you grow up drinking salsa from the bottle then the difference is more apparent.
Serving anything made by Frito-Lay with tex-mex will likely get you shot around here.
UncleRojelio,
I am a dyed-in-the-wool, eight-generation Texan. And although I may have some terminology mixed up here, I am referencing a thin (very thin), crispy, flour-based tortilla-like product that is fried. Usually served warm in the restaurant, at your table, before they take your drink order. If you’re familiar with the Mamacita’s restaurant chain, their chips are EXACTLY what I’m looking for, not that nasty corn stuff, like Tostitos. I am willing to admit error in terminology, but I know what I’m looking for, and have yet to find it in a grocery store (although HEB probably DOES have it – God I miss that store – I am in Kansas City now, which wouldn’t know good Tex-mex if it jumped up and bit them in the ass).
Ah, so you’re looking for a very thin, light flour chip. I’m afraid the Tostitos one is probably going to be too thick for your taste - it’s slightly too thick for mine, but it’s the only *flour *chip I’ve found in the stores around here (Chicago, where we DO have good Mexican, thanks to immigration, 'though I can’t vouch for the Tex-Mex.)
I’ve found a good lower fat technique is to spray a flour tortilla with cooking spray and bake it. No, it’s not the same as a deep fry, but it might be the closest thing you can get without a taqueria nearby.
Maybe it’s not white flour? Maybe it’s white corn? Nah, the texture’s wrong, or something…
I’m afraid it may just be one of those things I’ll know when I find it…but I’m sure the mexican restaurants buy them by the truckload, so I just need to find out what it is that they’re buying…anyone here ever work for a mexican restaurant?
You might try asking around for some of these. Since El Galindo has gone downhill, we’ve started buying the El Milagro. Good luck in your worthy and valiant quest.
I know what you’re talking about! They are great. The Mexican restaurant I patronize that serves them makes them in its kitchen. They are served on the table with some corn tortilla chips, also made there.
The bad news is, I have no idea where you could buy them. I once saw something in a bag that looked like the same thing, but it turned out not to be. And no, it was not the Tostitos product.
I really haven’t even found many high-quality flour tortillas, so when I need them I usually make my own. It’s easy, and if you want to put an image of Jesus or the Virgin Mary on them, that’s easy too.