Elegant Home-Made Tortilla Chips

MAKE YOUR OWN ELEGANT TORTILLA CHIPS  Posted at 12:16 PM on November 27, 2009

MAKE YOUR OWN ELEGANT TORTILLA CHIPS You don’t have to throw out your tortillas if they are past their prime. Make them into tortilla chips, which will be very popular with your family and guests, as they are pleasingly different from those bought in the store. Take a stack of tortillas and dust between the layers with salt, pressing it into them. Then, pressing into it with a large knife, cut the stack of tortillas into quarters. Lower a handful-at-a-time of the uncooked chips into bubbling hot oil. For this light and crispy batch, I used a combination of soy oil, which is now sold as “vegetable oil”, and lard. Peanut or corn oil are also good for deep-frying tortillas.

When the chips themselves have developed bubbles and are slightly brown, it’s time to remove them from the pot with a runsible or slotted spoon. Drain them on paper towels, and dust with more salt if desired. The cooking oil may be strained, refrigerated and re-used for French fries, yams or potato chips. My recipe for Elegant Guacamole goes very well with these tortilla chips. So do sour cream or crème fraîche, and a mixture of sliced jalapeños with melted Cheddar cheese, baked on top of the chips for a few minutes in a hot oven.

 ©M-J de Mesterton 2009

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Green Chile Chicken Noodle Soup

 

M-J’s Original Recipe

Boil three cups of Country Pasta egg noodles (from Montana, available at Sam’s Club) in  ten cups of chicken broth diluted with water, or water to which some chicken bouillon concentrate has been added. I used two tablespoons of Tone’s brand chicken base (Tennessee and Iowa, USA), available at Sam’s. Mix one tablespoon of flour with three tablespoons of the broth, and stir it into the simmering soup as a thickener if desired. Add a half-cup (or more to your taste) of chopped green chiles either from Hatch of New Mexico or El Paso brand (Texas) in cans. Then, when the egg noodles or pasta strips are soft, in about thirty minutes, stir-in a half-cup of sour cream.

© M-J de Mesterton 2010

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M-J’s Original Recipe

Boil three cups of Country Pasta egg noodles (from Montana, available at Sam’s Club) in  ten cups of chicken broth diluted with water, or water to which some chicken bouillon concentrate has been added. I used two tablespoons of Tone’s brand chicken base (Tennessee and Iowa, USA), available at Sam’s. Mix one tablespoon of flour with three tablespoons of the broth, and stir it into the simmering soup as a thickener if desired. Add a half-cup (or more to your taste) of chopped green chiles either from Hatch of New Mexico or El Paso brand (Texas) in cans. Then, when the egg noodles or pasta strips are soft, in about thirty minutes, stir-in a half-cup of sour cream.

© M-J de Mesterton 2010