Burritos vs Flautas: what's the difference?
j.a. fielden
>I just tried a recipe from the Vegetarian Times for Black Bean Flautas. They
>looked just like burritos to me - so what's the difference between burritos and
>flautas? I'm not up on this Mexican terminology. If you are, please
>enlighten me!
>
In my experience flautas are made with corn tortillas, rolled and
fried. Burritos are made with flour tortillas, rolled(but are about 3 or 4 times
bigger) occasionally smothered in a sauce but not fried (it would then
be a chimichanga).
Stephanie da Silva
> I just tried a recipe from the Vegetarian Times for Black Bean Flautas. They
> looked just like burritos to me - so what's the difference between burritos
> and flautas?
This is just an observation, but all the burritos I've ever seen were
very fat and all the flautas I've seen were real skinny. Also, there
may be a difference in the way they're cooked.
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David E Levinson
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> In my experience flautas are made with corn tortillas, rolled and
>fried. Burritos are made with flour tortillas, rolled(but are about 3 or 4 times
Also, flautas-the name comes from 'flute'-are I think open at the ends, like
a cannoli.
I'm not sure, but I think flautas aren't fried. Growing up in Tucson, AZ
when we ordered chicken tacos, they came rolled and fried. Those were sometimes
called 'rolled tacos.' I was never a big flauta eater, so ignore me if I've
misstated the facts :] :]
>bigger) occasionally smothered in a sauce but not fried (it would then
>be a chimichanga).
BTW, Do any of the Tex-Mex areas outside of Tucson serve chimichangas
enchilada-style? That is, covered in enchilada sauce and cheese, heated.
I heard that the chimi originated in Southern Az. so I wouldn't be surprised
if other areas were not as 'advanced' in serving this chimichanga variation.
Stomach grumbling,
David
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All the flautas I've ever had appeared to have been fried.
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David Casseres
(j.a. fielden) writes:
> In my experience flautas are made with corn tortillas, rolled and
> fried. Burritos are made with flour tortillas, rolled(but are about 3 or
> 4 times bigger) occasionally smothered in a sauce but not fried (it
> would then be a chimichanga).
Also, a flauta usually has just one kind of filling in it (such as spiced meat
or chicken) while a burrito usually has rice and beans in it as well as
something else. A flauta is an appetizer or snack, while a burrito is a meal.
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David Casseres
Exclaimer: Wow!
j.a. fielden
I've always had them as a meal. An old boy-friend of mine had a mexican
mother and I used to watch her and her mother make them, by the dozens.
I only tried once. In the time it took me to roll one they had 6 done so
I got regulated to helping fry them. In fact I just found a couple of
frozen containers of her green chili. I'd forgotton how good(and hot)
it was.
Burritos can have anything in them from just beans to beans, meat ,
olives, cheese, guac, lettuce, tomatoes, salsa so full you can barely
roll it. I myself ate a lot of peanut butter and jelly burritos growing
up, except during the years we lived in Germany since it was close to
impossible to get any kind of mexican foodstuffs there at that time since
not even the commissary carried them.
I was in Cortez and Durango this weekend so I managed to get a decent
Mexican fix but I'll have to wait for my next trip to El Paso to get
truly saturated.