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- From: karen@silvia.berkeley.edu (Karen Kerschen)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Enchiladas sabrosas
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- Date: 14 Nov 86 02:12:38 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE ENCHILADAS-2 M "1 Aug 86" 1986
- .RZ "ENCHILADAS SABROSAS" "Enchiladas with meat, black olives, and cheese"
- For many years, I've been involved in Latin American ``solidarity work''
- here in the San Francisco area, and as a result, I have learned some of its
- culinary pleasures. This recipe originated from the back of a can of
- enchilada sauce in Mexico, but was refined by a special Chilean refugee
- friend who won a scholarship to the California Culinary Academy (in San
- Francisco) and now cooks ever-so-lusciously.
- .IH "Serves 6\-8"
- .IG "2 lbs" "ground meat" "800 g"
- (mixed ground beef and ground pork)
- .IG "1" "medium onion"
- .IG "\(12" "green pepper"
- .IG "5" "garlic cloves"
- .IG "1 bunch" "cilantro"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "red pepper" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "salt" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "\(12\-1 tsp" "cumin" "3\-5 ml"
- .IG "\(12 cup" "wine or sherry" "100 ml"
- .IG "\(34 cup" "black olives" "90 g"
- .IG "1\(12 cups" "enchilada sauce" "350 ml"
- (1 can)
- .IG "\(12 cup" "tomato sauce" "100 ml"
- (1 small can)
- .IG "12" "corn tortillas"
- .IG "\(12 lb" "monterey jack cheese" "200 g"
- .IG "\(12 cup" "sour cream" "125 ml"
- (optional)
- .IG "" "oil"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Chop onion and garlic; place them in a frying pan with the ground
- meats. Saut\z\(aae them without adding fat.
- .SK 2
- When meat is brown, add the chopped green pepper and most of the
- cilantro leaves and cook for another minute or
- two (until green pepper is cooked bright green).
- .SK 3
- Drain well, then add
- .AB "several tablespoons" "about 50 ml"
- of the enchilada sauce and cook for a few minutes longer.
- Set aside.
- .SK 4
- Make the sauce:
- into a saucepan, pour the remaining enchilada sauce (from the can).
- Add the can of tomato sauce. Add the wine or sherry, cumin,
- salt, red pepper, and cook for 10\-30 minutes (depending on how compulsive
- you are). The flavor should be smooth (not gritty) and spicy.
- .SK 5
- Collect together everything that you will need for assembling the
- enchiladas. Grate the cheese onto wax paper. Have
- the olives handy (you'll be cutting them in half). Lightly oil the baking
- dish.
- .SK 6
- The frying pan from which you drained the meat mixture still has
- some of its grease left in it. Take 4 tortillas from their package,
- separate them from each other, then one-by-one, slide them over the
- frying pan surface on each side, to moisten them slightly
- with the grease. That done, stack them in the
- frying pan and heat them until they are soft and pliable.
- .SK 7
- The final assembly requires a bit of manual dexterity and speed:
- Take the tortillas, and place them (bumpy side out) in the oven
- dish, curved into a ``U'' shape,
- each right next to its neighbor. (At this point, start heating your
- next 4 tortillas in the frying pan. I usually wind up preparing 10
- tortillas in all.)
- .SK 8
- Place a small handful of cheese into the U of
- each tortilla, followed by an appropriate amount of meat mixture,
- and finally several olive halves. Then curl one end of the
- tortilla around to tuck into the opposite end, and carefully rotate
- it to conceal the seam. Each tortilla should be filled firmly (not
- too loosely) but not overflowing the ends.
- .SK 9
- Once all the filling is used up and the enchiladas are now filled
- tortillas, pour the sauce over the top, helping it run into all
- the crevices. Sprinkle lightly with remaining cilantro leaves.
- .SK 10
- Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 20\-30 minutes, just until the
- tortillas are soft and the sauce is slightly bubbly.
- Let sit for 5 minutes, then serve, topped with a dollop of
- sour cream.
- .NX
- If you fail to drain the meat well enough, the enchiladas will be greasy.
- If overbaked, it tastes all right, but the
- tortillas lose their texture. In general, however, the recipe is
- quite forgiving
- in its proportions. Feel free to adjust the seasoning to your own
- tolerance for hot spice. I like to assemble this recipe at least 3
- hours before baking to give the flavors a chance to blend.
- Left refrigerated for a day, the seasoning is even less aggressive.
- Served with a salad (and some Mexican beer), it's a complete meal.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate.
- .I Time:
- 1 hour preparation, 30 minutes baking.
- .I Precision:
- Approximate measurement OK, but time the baking carefully.
- .WR
- Karen Kerschen
- EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., USA
- karen@silvia.Berkeley.EDU
-