Salbutes

Salbutes, crisp little handheld tortillas topped with shredded turkey, avocado, pickled onions, and cabbage or lettuce. Salbutes are similar to a tostada and  a popular street food the Yucatán region of Mexico  and Belize.

Rather than toasting or frying up tortillas until shatteringly crisp as you do for tostadas, Belizean salbutes are made by frying discs of fresh masa dough (spiked with achiote) until cooked, but not crunchy.

The texture is soft, a little chewy, but kind of crisp at the same time. In other words, they don’t shatter and fall apart as soon as you sink your teeth into them.