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Cheese Enchilada Recipe
Ingredients:
1 lb of mild cheddar cheese, grated
corn tortillas
vegetable oil
1/4-1/3 cup finely chopped yellow onion
Enchilada sauce, heated
sour cream, optional
guacamole, optional
Directions:
Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan on medium heat.
You will need some tongs and a plate or tray to assemble your
enchiladas.
Using tongs, dip two corn tortillas at a time into the hot oil.
When the tortillas start to bubble, lift and dip them into the
oil 3 times fairly quickly.
The goal here is to make the tortillas soft. If the tortillas
are left in the oil too long they will get hard and be difficult
to roll. If that happens just toss them out and start over.
The other option is to go ahead and keep cooking them in the oil
until they become hard. These can be used as tostada shells if
you like.
Okay, back to dipping the tortillas 3 quick times in the oil.
Once you do this, dip the tortillas into hot enchilada sauce to
coat.
Now put the tortillas on a plate to cool one minute.
Add a handfull of the grated cheese and sprinkle some onion down
the center of one tortilla and roll it. Do this by grabbing one
end of the tortilla and bringing it 3/4 of the way over to the
other end. Tuck and roll the tortilla.
Pick up the cheese enchilada with your fore fingers on the
botton where the seam is. Let your pinky fingers cover the ends
of the enchilada to keep the cheese from falling out while you
move it to an oven proof dish.
With a little practice you will be a pro in no time at this.
Using a ladle, pour hot enchilada sauce over the top of the
cheese enchiladas and let plenty of sauce run down the sides.
Remember, the sauce is what makes it!
Sprinkle more cheese and onion on top in the desired amount. Now
didn't I tell you this cheese enchilada recipe was easy?
"It's Gotta Be Hot To Be Good" Preheat the oven to 400 degrees
and place your enchiladas in the oven. Heat the cheese
enchiladas until they look somewhat flat and the sauce is
bubbling. This will probably take 15 minutes or more.
Remember, you want to make sure the cheese inside the enchilada
is melted.
Notice the bubbles around the edge? This cheese enchilada recipe
has got to be hot to be good.