Recipe for cooking cheese enchiladas

Quick Meals- Salads and Vegetarian Dishes :: Vegetarian Entrees

Cheese Enchiladas

Enchilada Sauce
2 Tbsp. lard
2 Tbsp. flour
1/4 C. mild chili powder
1/4 C. hot chili powder
2 C. beef stock base
Pin. of Mexican oregano
Pin. of cumin
Pin. of salt
Pin. of garlic powder

Melt lard. Add flour, stirring constantly until flour begins to brown. Remove from heat at once. Add chili powders, then stir in beef stock base. Continue to stir over heat. Season with remaining ingredients. Cook 15 min., stirring constantly.

Dip soft-fried corn tortilla in sauce 2/3 of the way down into tortilla. Sprinkle tortilla with diced onion and shredded cheese. Roll up. Layer with Enchilada Sauce generously. Sprinkle with shredded cheese, then onion. Place in oven for 15 min. at 325 degrees F.

Serve garnished with lettuce, chopped scallions and chopped tomato.