Mexican Pizza

One of my favorite fast food snacks is a Mexican Pizza from Taco Bell. Sure it's super unhealthy I'm sure, but it's probably better than my other fav fast food meal - roast chicken, mashed potatoes, and a buttery biscuit from Church's or Lee's Chicken. Anyway, back to the Mexican pizza. I wanted to recreate it (Ruchir's mom does an excellent version) so here goes!

First the filling. For this I used a can of black beans and a can of tomatoes with green chilis. Ideally I would have used fresh tomatoes but we had just run out of the supply that we got from the farmer's market so canned it had to be. I just mixed them together (drained the beans first) and let them cook until it wasn't liquid-y anymore. Then I dumped a handful of cheese of top and mixed that in so it was a paste type thing.

Looks like chili but it's not!

The actual "pizza" part is two deep fried tortillas. I should have deep fried them but I didn't want to use a bunch of oil so I just toasted them with a little oil in a skillet. Because they weren't deep fried, they weren't totally crispy, but still good enough.

The bean and tomato mixture is spread between the tortillas and topped with a bunch of shredded cheese and then put under a broiler for a bit to melt. I topped it with a dollop of homemade guacamole (remember the 25 cent avocados I got? yum!). Some sour cream would have been nice too but I didn't have any.

And here's a shot of the middle so that the inside filling can be seen. It was tasty but the tortilla could have been crispier. Still good enough for me to devour!