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Showing posts with label cheese. Show all posts

Old-fashion Corn Chips, Chili, and Cheese Casserole With Country Surprise Slaw

With the current grocery prices and all the other economic downturns, we are all looking for economical recipes that will help us feed our families nutritious meals. Here are a couple of old-fashion recipes from my vintage recipe collection. Both are quick, easy, economical and tasty. Perfect for an inexpensive family meal. Corn chips, chili, and cheese casserole uses a minimal number of ingredients, goes together quickly and only needs to bake for 20 minutes. Not only is it tasty and economical, it is also perfect for the busy mom. Country surprise slaw has an apple in its ingredient list, giving it a little something extra and adding fruit to the mix.

CORN CHIPS, CHILI, AND CHEESE CASSEROLE

2 tbsp margarine
1 lb ground beef
1 1/4 oz pkg chili seasoning mix
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
2 cups coarsely crumbed corn chips
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cans (8 oz each) tomato sauce

Melt margarine in skillet and brown ground beef with onion. Drain. Stir in chili seasoning mix, tomato sauce, and 1 cup water. Simmer 10 minutes. Stir occasionally. Lightly grease 2-quart casserole dish. Layer 1/2 chili mixure, corn chips, then cheese. Repeat layers. Bake 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

COUNTRY SURPRISE SLAW

6 cups shredded or chopped cabbage
2 large carrots, shredded
1 medium bell pepper, chopped
1 large red apple, chopped
3 green onions, sliced
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper

In a large bowl, combine the cabbage, carrots, bell pepper, apple, onions, and celery. In a small mixing bowl, combine the mayonnaise, sugar, vinegar, salt and pepper. Pour dressing mix over cabbage mixture and toss to coat well. Put in a covered bowl and refrigerate.

Enjoy




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Applebee's Cheese Chicken Tortilla Soup Copycat Recipe

I don't know about you, but I love eating out at restaurants. The problem is that my budget doesn't always support it since even a simple meal out at a restaurant can cost an arm and a leg. The good news is that rather than having to miss out on your favorite meals because you are on a limited budget you can use a "copycat recipe" to make your favorite restaurant dishes at home.

These recipes are reverse engineered to make a dish that tastes just like that one you have at the restaurant. The difference is that instead of having to pay the huge price tag for a restaurant meal, you just pick up the ingredients at the grocery store and make it yourself for a fraction of the cost. Not only that, but by making it yourself you get leftovers, too, which is always a good thing!

As an example, here's a copycat recipe that I have for Applebee's Cheese Chicken Tortilla Soup.

2 tsp. minced fresh garlic

1 cup chopped yellow onion

2 Tbsp. vegetable oil

4 Cups chicken stock

1/4 cup green pepper, chopped

1 can tomato puree (15 oz.)

1 Tbsp. finely minced jalapeño pepper (optional)

1 tsp. sugar

1/2 tsp. hot sauce (optional)

1 tsp. chili powder (optional)

1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. pepper

4 Tbsp. flour

1/2 Cup water

1 lb. cooked chicken, cubed or pulled

1 Cup cream

1/4 Cup non-fat sour cream

8 oz. processed cheese, 1-inch cubes

10 (6-inch) colored or yellow corn tortillas, 1/4-inch strips, fried

Roughly chopped Fresh cilantro (optional)

Sauté oil, garlic and onions in large pan until soft. Add the vegetable oil, chicken stock, green pepper, tomato puree, jalapeño pepper, salt, pepper, sugar, chili powder, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce. Bring to low boil, then reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes. Cut tortillas into 1/4-inch strips and fry in oil or spray with oil and bake at 400ºF (while soup is cooking). Sprinkle with salt if desired. Thoroughly mix flour and water, then whisk into soup. Bring to a low boil, then simmer 5 minutes. Add chicken and simmer 5 minutes. Stir in sour cream and cheese (to taste). The soup should be served at 165ºF. After serving soup, pile tortilla strips into a "haystack" shape on top of the soup. Optional: garnish with freshly chopped cilantro. Makes 6-8 servings

This recipe is delicious and is really great for cold winter nights since soup is always a warm, filling meal. One of the great things about this recipe is that it makes enough to feed an entire family and is pretty cheap to make. Even if you just have one or two people to feed the leftovers can be easily stored and feed you for a few days. It's a great way to get restaurant-style soup on an eat at home budget.




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Applebee's Cheese Chicken Tortilla Soup Copycat Recipe

I don't know about you, but I love eating out at restaurants. The problem is that my budget doesn't always support it since even a simple meal out at a restaurant can cost an arm and a leg. The good news is that rather than having to miss out on your favorite meals because you are on a limited budget you can use a "copycat recipe" to make your favorite restaurant dishes at home.

These recipes are reverse engineered to make a dish that tastes just like that one you have at the restaurant. The difference is that instead of having to pay the huge price tag for a restaurant meal, you just pick up the ingredients at the grocery store and make it yourself for a fraction of the cost. Not only that, but by making it yourself you get leftovers, too, which is always a good thing!

Chicken Chili

As an example, here's a copycat recipe that I have for Applebee's Cheese Chicken Tortilla Soup.

2 tsp. minced fresh garlic

1 cup chopped yellow onion

2 Tbsp. vegetable oil

4 Cups chicken stock

1/4 cup green pepper, chopped

1 can tomato puree (15 oz.)

1 Tbsp. finely minced jalapeño pepper (optional)

1 tsp. sugar

1/2 tsp. hot sauce (optional)

1 tsp. chili powder (optional)

1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. pepper

4 Tbsp. flour

1/2 Cup water

1 lb. cooked chicken, cubed or pulled

1 Cup cream

1/4 Cup non-fat sour cream

8 oz. processed cheese, 1-inch cubes

10 (6-inch) colored or yellow corn tortillas, 1/4-inch strips, fried

Roughly chopped Fresh cilantro (optional)

Sauté oil, garlic and onions in large pan until soft. Add the vegetable oil, chicken stock, green pepper, tomato puree, jalapeño pepper, salt, pepper, sugar, chili powder, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce. Bring to low boil, then reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes. Cut tortillas into 1/4-inch strips and fry in oil or spray with oil and bake at 400ºF (while soup is cooking). Sprinkle with salt if desired. Thoroughly mix flour and water, then whisk into soup. Bring to a low boil, then simmer 5 minutes. Add chicken and simmer 5 minutes. Stir in sour cream and cheese (to taste). The soup should be served at 165ºF. After serving soup, pile tortilla strips into a "haystack" shape on top of the soup. Optional: garnish with freshly chopped cilantro. Makes 6-8 servings

This recipe is delicious and is really great for cold winter nights since soup is always a warm, filling meal. One of the great things about this recipe is that it makes enough to feed an entire family and is pretty cheap to make. Even if you just have one or two people to feed the leftovers can be easily stored and feed you for a few days. It's a great way to get restaurant-style soup on an eat at home budget.

Applebee's Cheese Chicken Tortilla Soup Copycat Recipe

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Make Cheese Enchiladas at Home - Learn 4 Secrets From a Previous Restaurateur

Doesn't just about everyone love great enchiladas? Would you like to learn how restaurants make them? My family had a Mexican restaurant where I was the cook. I will explain to you how we did it and leave you with the best tips for delicious enchiladas.

I would venture to say that the most important part to making great enchiladas, whether they are beef, cheese, chicken or pork, is the sauce. If the ingredients are tasty but the sauce is mediocre then the overall end result is uneventful. In my view it's the sauce that makes a cheese enchilada recipe great.

Secret #1
Start with a great sauce. You have some options here.

1. Make your own (recipe below)
2. Buy some enchilada sauce from your favorite Mexican restaurant
3. Trader Joes has a respectable bottled enchilada sauce. It's not great but a little better than what you will find in most grocery stores.

Rockin Robin's Enchiladas Sauce

Ingredients:

2 cups chicken broth
4 Tbs. Chili Powder
1 tsp. ground cumin
2 heaping tsp. garlic powder (no added salt)
3/4 tsp. salt
1 pinch ground cinnamon (less than 1/16 tsp.)
1/3 tsp. sugar
5Tbs. cold water
4 Tbs. white flour

Directions:

In a 2 quart sauce pan add the chicken broth, chili powder, garlic powder, cumin, salt, cinnamon and sugar (the sugar is a little secret to eliminate any bitter taste from the chili powder).

Use a whisk to mix everything well. Heat to a boil, reduce heat to a low boil and cook for 3-4 minutes. Whisk frequently to make sure all spices dissolve. This is important for flavor and a nice smooth sauce.

While the sauce is on a slow simmer/boil, add 5 tablespoons of cold water in a small bowl. With another whisk mix 1 tablespoon at a time of flour. Whisk vigorously to avoid lumps. If you have lumps here, you will definitely have lumps in your sauce.

After 3-4 minutes of cooking the sauce, turn the heat up to high. Very slowly, pour the flour mixture into the boiling sauce.

Here you must whisk the sauce vigorously while adding the flour to avoid lumps. After all the flour is added, continue to whisk for one minute. You can turn the heat down to medium during this time. Just make sure the sauce is boiling. Let it boil for 3 or 4 minutes. Turn off the heat, this enchilada sauce is done.

You will notice that as this sauce sits it will form a "skin" on the surface. This is normal and in fact the longer the sauce sits the thicker this skin becomes. All you have to do is peel the skin off and throw it away.

Now that you have options for making or acquiring enchilada sauce, you have secret number 1 out of the way.

Secret #2

Always dip the corn tortillas, one or two at a time in hot oil, to soften them. Many home cooks miss this important step and just put a little sauce on the tortillas, fill them with cheese and roll them up. Dipping the tortillas in hot oil really adds flavor to your enchiladas and makes rolling them much easier. Be careful when rolling the enchiladas as they are very hot.

Secret #3

After dipping the tortillas in hot oil, dip them in hot enchilada sauce and coat both sides of the tortillas. This will get that delicious enchilada sauce on the inside of your enchiladas as well and mix in and flavor your cheese or meat. No dry enchiladas here.

Secret #4

Make your enchiladas fresh. In other words make them and serve them the same day. They simply taste better and won't dry out. If you absolutely must make them the day before (you will compromise on flavor and texture), top them before heating with a fresh new layer of hot enchilada sauce and then cheese and onion.

Heat them well in a hot oven. In the restaurant business, our steam table kept all of our food hot. So when making up a plate the food was already pretty hot but we always put the plates in the oven to get them really hot. Mexican food just taste better that way.

So make sure you put your enchiladas in the oven and heat them until you see the sauce bubble up. This is especially important when making cheese enchiladas. You want to make sure that cheese melts on the inside.

So there you have it. If you follow those 4 secrets you will have delicious tasting enchiladas. I guarantee it!

Let's Make Some Great Cheese Enchiladas.

Ingredients:

1lb of mild cheddar cheese, grated
10-12 corn tortillas
1/4 - 1/3 cup finely chopped yellow onion
vegetable oil
24 ounces of enchilada sauce, heated
guacamole
sour cream

Directions:

Heat an inch or two of oil in a small frying pan over medium heat. Watch the oil so it doesn't smoke. Cover a tray with foil (for easy clean up) and grab some tongs. Use the tongs to dip two corn tortillas at a time in the hot oil. When they start to bubble, lift and dip the tortillas 3 times quickly in the oil.

Now either dip the tortillas into the hot enchilada sauce to coat and then lay them on the foil-covered tray you prepared.

Sometimes what happens with this technique is that the tortillas will tear due to the weight of the sauce. If that happens try placing the tortillas onto the foil tray before dipping in the sauce. Then ladle sauce onto the tortillas and turn them over to coat with sauce.

Now you are ready for the cheese. Add a layer of grated cheese right down the middle of the tortilla, then a sprinkle of onion. Be sure to add plenty of cheese as it will melt down when heated. Grab the end of the tortilla closest to you and bring it 3/4 of the way over to the other end. Tuck and roll the tortilla into a cylinder.

Pick up the cheese enchilada with your fore fingers on the bottom 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. Continue with the rest of the enchiladas.

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 over the top.

Place in a 400*F. oven until the cheese melts and the sauce is bubbling. It's important that these enchiladas are hot enough so that the cheese melts inside. It may take 10 to 15 minutes or more. Let your eyes be the judge.

Serve with guacamole and sour cream.

You can substitute beef, chicken or pork in this basic enchilada recipe.

Enjoy!




Robin Diaz-Gai is a previous Mexican restaurateur and the webmaster of http://www.cooking-mexican-recipes.com

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Orange and Neufchatel cheese fritters - a refreshing breakfast or dessert

Start the day with orange juice? People all over the world to see as a staple breakfast is not surprising. Oranges are an excellent source of vitamin C and folic acid, vitamin A is important. sweet and spicy citrus is also a source of potassium, thiamin, niacin and magnesium.

According to "orange", an article on the website of food reference, the result is a technique of berries, with segments that can be separated. U.S. grocery stores carry many varieties: sweet, sour, tangerine,Moro (blood orange), the navel, and tangerines. Clementine - small seedless tangerines - are grown in California and imported from Spain.

Food reference website indicates that you bring with you for an orange nose. "They come in their own container so that you can just peel and eat snack craze occurs when the orange segments," the site says. Bring a potato peeler, plastic, too, and a towel to dry the drops delicious.

I love the fresh orange slices and add the spinach andromaine lettuce. I understand a bit 'What do I water the cubes of angels with a little' juice. The juice adds a kick to enjoy a sweet dessert. Grilled ribs have a unique taste, Thanks for the piece of orange peel, that I add the sauce. If you are in a short period of time, I imagine a few spoonfuls of jam.

One of my favorite dishes, beef with Niçoise is "La Cuisine du Soleil" by Mireille Johnston. The book offers food from Nice and Provence. Beef Burgundy Johnstonis similar to other recipes, but contains two wonderful additions, fresh tomatoes and a little 'orange peel. Although the recipe is a bit 'long, I think the results are spectacular worth.

You always want to oranges? You should be. Orange and Neufchatel cheese pancakes are a great way to enjoy it. The recipe for frozen pancakes, but it is possible, the products of the department, or for their own use. Kids love pancakes, if you ask for help. Make additionalPancakes freeze for future use. Garnish with whipped cream or crepes desserts without sugar topping and a dusting of icing sugar.

Ingredients

1 teaspoon orange zest (orange)
freshly squeezed orange segments
Cup low-sugar jam 02:01
04:01 cup water
8 oz Neufchatel cheese, room temperature
1 teaspoon Splenda Tea mixture
1 teaspoon orange zest
4 large frozen pancakes

Method

Grate the orange zest for life. Peel oranges and cut into wedges, captureThe juice in a bowl. Set aside. Mix the jam and give the water in a small saucepan. Heat over low heat. Add Neufchatel cheese, Splenda mixture, orange rind and juice in a bowl and whisk. Spoon a line of filling in center of each crepe. Fold the edges under. Season with hot sauce and garnish with fresh orange segments. Makes four servings of breakfast or dessert.

Copyright 2009 by Harriet Hodgson

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Make cheese enchiladas at home - 4 Secrets of learning a restaurant before

Not only all the great love enchiladas? Want to learn to restaurants? My family had a Mexican restaurant where I cook. Let me explain how we have done and the best advice for delicious enchiladas.

I would say the most important part to make great enchiladas, where pork, cheese, chicken or sauce. If the ingredients are tasty, but the sauce is poor, then the entire final nothing happened. From my point of view, is the sauce, cheese Enchilada Recipe makes it so great.

Secret # 1
Start with a great sauce. You have several options.

First make your own (recipe below)
Buy a second bit of sauce, enchilada of your favorite Mexican restaurant
Trader Joe's enchilada sauce Third is a bottle respectable. Not great, but a little 'better than that found in most stores.

Rockin Robin enchilada sauce

Ingredients

2 cups> Chicken Soup
4 c. soup. Chili Powder
1 teaspoon of tea. cumin
Two teaspoons. Garlic powder (no salt added)
4.3 V. tea. Salt
1 pinch ground cinnamon (less than 1 / 16 teaspoon).
1.3 V. tea. Sugar
5Tbs. cold water
4 c. soup. White flour

Directions:

2 liters in a pot, add the chicken broth, chili powder, garlic powder, cumin, salt, cinnamon and sugar (sugar is a little secret to eliminate the bitter taste of the chili powder).

With a whipmix well. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low boil and cook for 3-4 minutes. Stir regularly to ensure that all spices dissolve. This is important for flavor and a smooth sauce.

While the hot sauce on a slow / boiling, add 5 tablespoons cold water in a small bowl. With another whisk mix 1 tablespoon of flour at a time. Whisk vigorously to avoid lumps. If the pieces here, probably lumps in the sauce.

After 3-4 minutes of cooking sauce,Increase heat to high. Very slowly, pour the flour mixture into the boiling sauce.

Here you must add the sauce mix vigorously to avoid lumps of flour. After all, you add the flour, continue to whisk for a minute. You can heat the half in this period. Be sure to boil the sauce. Cook for 3 or 4 minutes. Turn off the heat, the enchilada sauce is ready.

You will notice that this sauce sits it will be a "skin" forms on the surface. Thisis normal and in fact, the sauce is thicker this skin becomes. Everything you need, peel and discard.

Now you can create or buy the enchilada sauce, you have a secret number of the road.

Secret # 2

Always wet the corn tortillas, one or two at a time in hot oil until they soften. Many amateur cooks miss this important step and just put a bit 'of sauce over the tortillas, filling them with cheese, and in case of capsizing. DisposalTortillas in hot oil really adds flavor to your enchiladas and makes it much easier to roll. Be careful when you roll the enchiladas, they are very hot.

Secret # 3

After dropping the tortillas in hot oil, dip into hot enchilada sauce and coat both sides of tortillas. This is a delicious enchilada sauce in enchiladas as well as your taste and stir in cheese or meat to get. No dry enchiladas here.

Secret # 4

Make your enchiladascosts. In other words, make and serve the same day. They taste better and not dry. If you must do the day before (it's compromise on taste and texture) on top before heating with a coat of fresh new hot sauce and then cheese and onion enchiladas.

Heat well in a hot oven. In the restaurant, our table steaming all our food was hot. So if you get a plate of food was not hot enough, but we always put the dishes in the ovenshe hot. Mexican food tastes better that way.

To ensure Put your enchiladas in the oven and cook until the sauce bubbles seen. This is particularly important when the production of cheese enchiladas. You want to make sure that the cheese is melted inside.

So there you have it. If you follow these four secrets, you can enjoy delicious enchiladas. I guarantee it!

Let's Make Some great cheese enchiladas.

Ingredients

1 pound sweetCheddar cheese
12:10 corn tortillas
1 / 4-1 / 3 cup chopped yellow onion
Vegetable oil
24 ounces enchilada sauce, heated
Guacamole
Cream

Directions:

Heat an inch or two of oil in a small saucepan over medium heat. Watch the oil, non-smoking. Cover with a sheet tray (for easy cleaning) and grab a crowbar. Use tongs to dip two corn tortillas at a time in hot oil. If they start to bubble, lift and dip the tortilla into 3 times fasteroil.

Now the two enchiladas tortilla dipped in sauce to coat and warm blankets ready to throw the leaves plateau.

Sometimes what happens with this technique is to tear the tortillas is the weight of the sauce. If this happens, try to place the tortillas on the sheet before dipping into the sauce. Then spoon sauce over tortillas and turn to coat with sauce.

Now you're ready for the cheese. Add a layer of grated cheese over allHalf of the tortilla, then a pinch of onion. Make sure the cheese melts when heated like to add. Get closer to the end of the tortilla and make three quarters of the way to end another. Tuck and roll the tortilla into a cylinder.

Take the cheese enchilada with fingers forward on the ground, where the town is. Let your little finger on the end of the cheese enchilada covered with down, while you keep moving in a pan. TakeRest of the enchiladas.

With a ladle, the hot enchilada sauce on top of cheese enchiladas and leave a lot of juice running down the flanks. Remember, the sauce is what it is? Sprinkle with cheese and onions over the top.

baked at 400 * F. until cheese is melted and sauce. And 'important that these enchiladas are hot enough to melt the cheese inside. It may be 10-15 minutes or more. Let your eyes of the judges.

Serve with guacamole andCream.

You can substitute beef, pork or chicken in this enchilada recipe.

Enjoy!

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