Entomatadas - Mexican - Cream Cheese Tortilla in a Chilli Tomato Sauce

 

The difference between enchiladas and entomatadas is that the latter bathes in a tomato sauce and the former is in a chilli sauce. This is useful to know when dealing with the cartels as you never want to look like a chump when Pedro points his P57. Entomatadas are best served alongside Tequila and denials.

Fillings can be chicken, beans or cheese.

Ingredients for the sauce
Onion
Garlic a few cloves try four or five
Chillies
Marjoram or Oregano
Half a tin of toms, or fresh ripe ones.
Chicken oxo in half a mug of water

Some small wraps

Filling
Cream cheese
Spring onion

Method for making the sauce - under a grill slightly brown the garlic and the thinly sliced onion and whole chillies, at least two please. 

Mix with tomatoes and stock and the herbs then liquidise till mostly blended. Then put a sauce pan on the heat and add several tblsp of oil (rapeseed) to cover the base - and get it hot, I mean very hot. Throw in your sauce, it should sizzle as it hits the oil and then simmer and let it reduce for about ten mins.

It may seem simple to make this sauce, but it's the detail that's so important, so I hope you get this amigo; onions, garlic, chilli must take colour under the grill. The oil must be very hot, Add lots of herbs not just a few. Don't use a metal spoon ever in Mexican cookery, only use a wooden spoon as metal is supposed to remove heat, or it's thought it's use may add a metallic taste. The sauce must be reduced by about a third. The sauce must not be completely smooth. The tortillas are served surrounded by a broth.

Pedro is pointing his P57, don't mess up.

Anyway

Put together your entomatadas, microwave the tortillas for half a minute (they are supposed to be fried and they are supposed to be corn, but try buying those in Aldi) use some cream cheese and spread in the middle, sprinkle over some spring onions add a drop of sauce and fold the tortilla over. Then add the sauce to surround the entomatadas, decorate with coriander and serve.

The effect is like a sort of cream cheese ravioli in a very hot chilli sauce, and that's great.

Anybody asks and we know nothing.