I have searched far and wide for real Mexican corn tortillas in Buenos Aires for many years. It has been a long and bumpy rapidita road, but I think I finally found what I was looking for.
Whenever I return to BA after a visit to the States, that food homesick feeling kicks in. I try to remedy my supermarket depression by filling my suitcase to the weight limit with unnecessary essentials. This year I packed a bag of tortillas, which lasted a whopping 48 hours. As I stuffed that last smuggled tortilla taco in my face, I realized the time had come for another quest to find legit Mexican corn tortillas.
Now, I’m not talking about Bimbo crapiditas or polenta pancakes. I need the real deal that has a Mexican seal of approval — corn tortillas made from masa de maíz NIXTAMALIZADO. So you can imagine my excitement when I found out about María Barrera Sosa AKA La Chiripiorca AKA my TORTILLA GODDESS.
María is a lawyer turned chef from Morelia, Michoacán. She studied how to cook professionally at IAG (Instituto argentino de gastronomia) and often gives classes and seminars on Mexican cooking. She sources yellow, red and purple corn from Salta and Jujuy, and makes the nixtamalized corn tortillas to order by the kilo, for pick up in Colegiales. These warm, freshly pressed tortillas brought me back to Mexico. One bite and it felt like Christmas came god damn early.
Tortillas are what brought me to María, but she also specializes in Mexican pastries and sells all sorts of cakes and baked goods like orejas, conchas, and pan dulce. (And gets poblano chiles from Uruguay.) Beyond her food to order, she organizes pop up events called Axiote, and private dinners as a personal chef.
I bought my first kilo a few days ago and after enchiladas, chilaquiles, taquitos, huevos rancheros, and multiple taco fiesta feasts, I’m already out of stock. I got my boy @ITouchedYourFood to work his fancy chef skills and make the ultimate taco spread with all the right fixins: braised beef, chile-rubbed chicken, stewed beans, grilled vegetables, avocados, pickled red onion, radishes, cilantro, guac, fresh cabbage, pomegranate, and a killer mouth-on-fuego chipotle mayo. Mexi taco partaay in da A-R-G.
La Chiripiorca
Pick up near Cabildo y Newbery, Colegiales
1 kilo tortillas for $280 pesos* (As of June 2018)
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