Image by Hagens_world via FlickrI had lunch with a friend yesterday at La Batalla, a small, colorful Mexican restaurant with groceries in Bergenfield. Non-meat offerings were limited, but I enjoyed two soft tacos with small shrimp, served with refried beans and yellow rice.
After we paid, I noticed stacks of tortillas, including green ones I had never seen before (Mi Pueblito brand from Passaic city, where thousands of Mexicans live). A customer and the woman who worked there didn't know why they were green. My friend looked at the label and said "green corn." Was that a statement or a question, because when I got home I saw only "corn flour" listed. (Photo: Produce store in Mexico.)
I wanted to use the tortillas for dinner last night, so I heated three of them on my stove-top griddle, topped them with sliced provolone cheese and stacked them on a plate. I made three sunny-side-up eggs in extra-virgin olive oil with salt and coarse Aleppo red pepper and put them over the tortillas and melted cheese, which were delicious soaked in the broken yolks.
I had mixed vegetables on the side and drank pinot grigio from Italy.
La Batalla, 83 N. Washington Ave., Bergenfield;
201-385-0303. Credit cards accepted. Web site:
La Batalla
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Those are tortillas de nopales, made with cactus fruit, I have seen them in Southern California.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I called the factory but the woman who answered didn't know and said they were closed. She suggested the tortillas were in the wrong bag.
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