How-To Video: Campbell’s® Tostadas Primaveras

Melissa Guerra, one of TLK’s featured chefs, is an 8^th generation Texan, and self-taught culinary expert and food historian living in San Antonio. Melissa will be sharing her recipe secrets with TLK in a series of how-to videos that recreate authentic Latin dishes. In this video, Melissa tackles Tostadas Primaveras, a light and crispy veggie and shrimp meal. A crispy corn tostada is topped with creamy asparagus soup, salty shrimp, and caramelized vegetables.

Below, Melissa walks TLK viewers through an easy, at-home Tostadas Primaveras. With the help of Campbell’s® Condensed Cream of Asparagus Soup, making the tostasdas is quick and easy. 

Melissa Guerra, born and raised on a working cattle ranch in South Texas, specializes in the foods of the Americas, especially Texas regional, Mexican, and Latin American cuisine. A cooking course instructor and public speaker, Guerra owns andoperates a website and storefront, The Latin Kitchen Market, dedicated to providing top quality Latin American kitchenware and ingredients. Her newest store at the Pearl Brewery in San Antonio—also the location of the new Culinary Institute of America’s Center for Foods of the Americas—was designated as the #1 shopping destination in San Antonio, the #3 shopping destination in the United States by Lonely Planet Guidebook (2011).  Guerra’s cookbook Dishes from the Wild Horse Desert: Norteño Cuisine of South Texas (Wiley, 2006) was a finalist for a James Beard Award in the category of Foods of the Americas, and an International Association of Culinary Professionals award in the same category.