Cemita de Queso de Puerco
Head cheese cemita; queso de puerco is Mexican head cheese.
Head cheese cemita; queso de puerco is Mexican head cheese.
Chicken cemita; breaded chicken cutlet.
A Puebla cemita built on pierna, pork leg rubbed in red adobo and oven-roasted, carved thin onto the sesame egg roll with quesillo, heavy avocado, chipotle, and raw pápalo.
The cemita de milanesa is the only cemita built to shatter: a pounded breaded cutlet fried brittle and pressed into Puebla's sesame egg roll with quesillo, avocado, chipotle, and raw papalo.
The cemita de carnitas packs pork cooked slow in its own lard into a domed sesame Puebla roll, with quesillo, avocado, smoky chipotle, and a wild leaf called pápalo laid in raw on top.
Pork loin steeped for hours in a guajillo adobo, then seared hard and packed into Puebla's sesame egg roll with quesillo, avocado, chipotle, and raw pápalo. The chile is in the meat, not on it.
Roasted cauliflower taco; vegetarian option.
Michoacán carnitas, part shredded and part crisped, packed into an oversized foil-wrapped California flour burrito with rice, beans, and guacamole holding the fat in check.
San Diego's border taco shops took the burrito and subtracted: grilled carne asada, guacamole, salsa, and a flat refusal of rice, beans, and fries.
Burrito with french fries and crispy elements.
San Diego specialty; carne asada with french fries, cheese, guacamole, sour cream inside. The fries are essential and distinctive.
In Sonora and Tucson it is a burro, not a burrito: the same closed wheat parcel under the full animal's name, built spare on a large thin Sonoran flour tortilla around one meat done well.
The burrito is a single warm flour tortilla rolled tight around a filling and sealed at both ends, spare in northern Mexico, loaded into a two-handed cylinder in the United States.
'Swiss' burrito; burrito smothered in cream sauce or sour cream-based sauce.
The wet burrito, laid flat and drowned in red or green chile under a blanket of melted cheese, then eaten with a fork. A burrito that traded the hand for a plate of its own.
Burrito covered in enchilada sauce and cheese.
Traditional Northern Mexican burrito; dried shredded beef (machaca) with eggs in flour tortilla. Simple, authentic.
Egg burrito; scrambled eggs, sometimes with chorizo or machaca.
Bean burrito; simple refried beans in flour tortilla. Traditional, simple.
Breakfast burrito; eggs, meat, potatoes in flour tortilla.
On the El Paso–Juárez border you order a burrito by its pot. De chile verde is the green one: pork shredded pale in tomatillo and roasted chile, rolled thin, foil-twisted.