Mollete Mollete A mollete () refers to an open-faced sandwich in Mexican cuisine or to a type of bread in Spanish cuisine. A "mollete" is a flatbread from the Andalusian region, in southern Spain. It is a soft round white bread, usually served lightly toasted with olive oil and raw garlic or spread with lard (usually in the forms of "manteca colorá" or "") in an Andalusian breakfast. The most famous are the ones from Antequera, Málaga. A "mollete", native to northern Mexico, is made with "bolillos" sliced lengthwise and partially hollowed, filled with "frijoles refritos", and topped with cheese and
Tex-Mex popular foods for more than a century. A taste for "cabrito" (kid goat), "barbacoa de cabeza" (barbecued beef heads), "carne seca" (dried beef), and other products of cattle culture is also common on both sides of the Rio Grande. In the 20th century, Tex-Mex took on such Americanized elements as yellow cheese, as goods from the United States became cheap and readily available. In much of Texas, the cooking styles on both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border were the same until a period after the U.S. Civil War. With the railroads, American ingredients and cooking appliances became common on the