Dinner · 20 min · Amounts not specified
Bean tostadas
Crisp the tortillas, smash the beans, pile cabbage. Dinner from cans.
The sheet · 4 plates · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Crisp the tortillas, smash the beans, pile cabbage. Dinner from cans.
What it needs
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- black beans
- tortillas
- cabbage
- lime
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: feta, avocado.
Method
- Crisp the tortillas properly — fried or baked until they snap. A soft tostada is just a bad taco.
- Crush the beans into a spreadable paste. Whole beans roll off a flat surface the moment it is picked up.
- Season the bean paste hard, because it is doing all the work and it sits under everything.
- Cabbage dressed with lime twenty minutes ahead, and everything assembled at the last second.
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- black beans
- Earthier and firmer than white beans, and they hold their shape where white beans go creamy.
- tortillas
- They want direct heat before they go anywhere near a plate.
- cabbage
- Cheap, keeps for weeks, and completely different raw and cooked.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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