Friday, March 14, 2008

Grandma DeAnna's Enchaladas

Jacob's Grandmother, DeAnna, taught me how to make this a few years ago. She said that she learned how to make them from a hispanic woman that lived next door to them in the San Fernando Valley....YEARS ago!! It is so simple and so tasty!!

Ingredients:

1 package corn tortillas
1 can olives (you might need 2)
1 can tomato sauce (15 oz.)
1 jar green taco sauce
chili powder (to taste)
cheddar cheese
1 1/2 lbs cooked ground beef

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Cook the ground beef in skillet until cooked thoroughly. Next, heat corn tortillas in another skillet and a little vegetable oil (so they don't break while you try to fill them.) While those heat up, make your sauce mixture in a bowl and slice olives. Add tomato sauce, half of the jar of green taco sauce, and chili powder to taste. Be very careful with the chili powder. I usually put some in, stir and taste and do that about three times until it is right. I would guess a few teaspoons, I will have to measure the next time I make it.

Now take your warm tortillas and dip them completely in the sauce. Place on shallow baking dish (I use a cookie sheet). Fill tortilla with meat, cheese and olives. Roll the filled tortilla and line pan. Repeat until pan is full of rolled tortillas. Bake in oven 40 minutes or until done.

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