Tortas Ahogadas

Name: Tortas Ahogadas
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 4 crusty rolls (birote salado or a firm French-style roll); 500g carnitas (slow-cooked pork); Tomato sauce: 6 tomatoes, onion, garlic, oregano and a little vinegar; Hot sauce: 30 dried chiles de árbol, vinegar, garlic and cumin; Refried beans (optional); Onions pickled in lime juice

Tortas ahogadas/TOR-tas ah-oh-GAH-das/

Also known as: Torta Ahogada, Guadalajara Drowned Sandwich, Mexican Drowned Torta

About this dish

A crusty roll filled with crispy carnitas and 'drowned' in a mild tomato sauce and a fiery chile de árbol sauce, eaten with pickled onions.

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Ingredients

🥖4 crusty rolls (birote salado or a firm French-style roll)

🐖500g carnitas (slow-cooked pork)

🍅Tomato sauce: 6 tomatoes, onion, garlic, oregano and a little vinegar

🌶️Hot sauce: 30 dried chiles de árbol, vinegar, garlic and cumin

🫘Refried beans (optional)

🧅Onions pickled in lime juice

Method

Serves 2

Blend and simmer the tomatoes, onion, garlic and oregano into a thin sauce.

Toast the chillies lightly, soak, then blend with vinegar, garlic and cumin.

Split the rolls, spread with beans if using and fill with carnitas.

Pour the tomato sauce generously over the torta.

Add as much chile de árbol sauce as you dare and top with pickled onions.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Tortas ahogadas are the signature street food of Guadalajara, Jalisco, made with birote salado, a sourdough roll that holds up to the sauce.

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