Making tortas for a fiesty and hungry De La Hoya-Mayweather crowd turned out tasty results. These sandwiches are served at room temp and promise to be meaty and satisfying.
Ingredients: Best Foods mayo, refried beans, mashed or sliced avocado, lettuce, pickled jalapenos, shredded pork butt, tomato and/or salsa. A soft (pick it up and check, or ask if it's soft) roll from a panaderia works best. We bought twenty rolls for five dollars in the Mission. Be sure to not slice the roll all the way through. Otherwise, you may have a mess that will only get worse if you try and pick it up.
Another bonus with making carnitas for tortas is the meat and salsa taste even better the next day.
Yum--reminds me of our drunken midnight torta fest!
Posted by: Tea | May 08, 2007 at 07:20 PM
Yes, Tea. We'll make you one next time you are around.
Posted by: Mary/Jalapeno Girl | May 10, 2007 at 11:06 AM
Great looking sandwich and a combination of delicious ingredients. Hard to go wrong with a shredded pork butt. Great idea with the pickled jalapenos.
Posted by: Mark | May 17, 2007 at 05:39 AM
Mark-Pork butt may be my favorite cut of meat. Yummmmm.
Posted by: Mary/Jalapeno Girl | May 17, 2007 at 02:27 PM
Wow i love that kind of food, nice idea of that sandwich
Posted by: Juno888 | May 20, 2007 at 07:11 PM
girl those tortas look amazing you gotta cook me once some of those !
Posted by: evelyn | November 26, 2010 at 06:36 AM