Vegetarian Baked Tostadas Recipe - Not Enough Cinnamon (2024)

Mexican food does not have to be greasy and heavy! Try my Vegetarian Baked Tostadas recipe: Corn tortillas baked in the oven until crispy, then topped with refried beans, avocado, homemade pico de gallo, avocado and goat cheese!

Update Feb. 2016: I first shared this baked tostadas recipe in October 2014 and I'm re-sharing it today because I made a video to show exactly how it's done! Scroll down just before the recipe box to see it. Enjoy!

The quick weeknight enchilada casserole I shared with you last week inspired me to continue on the Mexican road and try new Latin-inspired specialties.

This vegetarian baked tostadas recipe was my first attempt at tostadas, although it has beenon my "to-try" list for a very long time (this list is ever growing!). I hadseen many baked tostadas recipes on different blogs, magazines and cookbooks and from their looks I definitely suspected them to bevery good.

I finally managed to give this famous Mexican street food classic a try and the crispy baked tortillas loaded with classic Mexican ingredients did not disappoint: they definitely ARE delicious and really addictive!

If you are wondering what Mexican tostadas are, well, they are basically likea Mexican-style open-faced sandwich. Except instead of bread, a crispy corn tortilla is used.

Traditionally, the corn tortilla is fried to make a crispy shell, but I decided to go the healthy way and bake them in the oven instead. The baked tostadas came out perfectly crispy and golden brown, exactly how they should be.

Now, I was expecting these baked tostadas to be very messy and completely fall apart as we ate them but they did holdtogether beautifully! I think the key is to not overload them with too manytoppings. In the baked tostadas recipe, I detailed exactly how much I put on each tostada.

Speaking of toppings, as the title suggests I went meatless and used refried beans (another recent awesome discovery!), iceberg lettuce, pico de gallo - a tomato salsa and mashed avocado (of course, it's me, there's got to be avocado!), topped with a few crumbs of feta. I absolutely adored these healthy baked tostadas and I hope you will too!

Here's the baked tostadas recipe video (click here if you are reading this via email and can't see the video):

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