Mexican🍞 Bread & bakery

Grilled Volcán/Vampiro Tostadas

Name: Grilled Volcán/Vampiro Tostadas
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 5 Corn tortillas; ~1½ cups Melting cheese (queso asadero or Oaxaca cheese); ~1½ cups Diced grilled beef (carne asada); ~1½ cups Diced grilled pork steak; to taste Onion, diced; to taste Cilantro; ~2 Lime; ~1 cup Smoked salsa

⏱ 15 min🍽 Serves 5

Learn the taqueria trick of slow-toasting corn tortillas over a low grill fire until they turn into crispy tostadas, then stack them with melty cheese, grilled meat, cilantro, onion, lime and salsa to build mini 'volcanoes' (volcán) or 'vampiros' — a great way to use up the last embers after a cookout.

Adapted from a video by ArnieTex

The Tostada Secrets Mexican Taquerias Use: 3 Stages of Tortillas, Tostadas & Volcanes (aka Vampiros)

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Ingredients

Corn tortillasTo be toasted into tostadas5
Melting cheese (queso asadero or Oaxaca cheese)Any good melting cheese works~1½ cupsest.
Diced grilled beef (carne asada)~1½ cupsest.
Diced grilled pork steak~1½ cupsest.
Onion, dicedto taste
Cilantroto taste
LimeSqueezed for juice~2est.
Smoked salsa~1 cupest.

Steps

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1
Build a small fire and keep the bottom vents choked way down so the fire stays low — the tortillas have some moisture in them and need a gentle, slow heat to dehydrate properly.
2
Lay the tortillas directly over the coals and keep flipping them frequently so they toast evenly, puff slightly, and develop nice charred spots. Move them to cooler spots on the grill if any area gets too hot, so you toast rather than burn them.
3
If the fire gets too hot, move the tortillas to an indirect area of the grill, close the lid, and let them finish baking for about six to seven minutes until golden brown and crisp.
4
Pull out the toasted, crispy tostadas — if one has puffed up and stuck together, set it aside to enjoy later dipped in salsa instead of using it for a volcán.
5
Top the tostadas generously with melting cheese, close the grill lid, and let it melt for about two minutes.
6
Once the cheese has melted, top one tostada with diced grilled beef and the other with diced grilled pork steak to make two different flavors of volcán/vampiro.
7
Garnish with cilantro and diced onion, squeeze a little lime juice in the center, and drizzle with smoked salsa to finish — this is the fully loaded 'con todo' style tostada.
8
Enjoy your volcán and vampiro tostadas while hot, savoring the melted cheese, tender grilled protein, and the smoky depth from the salsa.

Grilled Volcán/Vampiro Tostadas

Ingredients

Steps

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