San Antonio, TX
San Antonio, TX

Guisada Gordita


Ray's Drive Inn

Guisada Gordita

Ray's Drive Inn
822 SW 19th Street
San Antonio, Texas, 78207
(210) 432-7171
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Don’t tell LuLu, but I have been in love with a Venezuelan for a long time. Arepas! Today I met their Mexican cousin, a perfectly made gordita. This yummy dish starts with masa corn meal that has been treated to remove its covering and cooked before being made into flour. From there, Ray’s makes it into a dough, grills it until it’s almost cooked through, and then deep fat fries it to crispy perfection. Its stuffing, guisada, was precisely produced by slowly simmering good cuts of beef with onions, peppers and cilantro, creating a wonderful stew-like stuffing. Venezuelans call them arepas. Mexicans called them gorditas. I just called them delicious!

DISHED UP BY...

Brad Blankenship

Brad Blankenship is a retired integrative medicine doctor who has resided in Nashville for over 50 years. He, along with his wife Lulu Burns-Keller travel the US in search of new flavors. Together, they write, photograph and review for Beyondish in the Nashville area and beyond.

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