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Mexican Enchillada

Ingredients

For Enchillada & Taco:

1 16 oz . can Vegetarian Refried Beans
1/2 pkg. Mexcan Taco mix (or 2 TSP Garam Masala if Mexican Tacco mix not available)
3 small can Tomato Sauce
1/2 crushed fresh Paper-Jalapeno (or Red chilli peper)
1/2 tsp Ginger paste
1/2 tsp Garlic paste
1 tsp Sugar
1 tsp Salt for taste
1 lb Yellow Mexican Cheese shreaded
8 Flour Tortilas
1 cup Oil (to fry tortillas - not required for Taacos)
1 Tomato (For Taccos
1 cup Sour Cream (or yogurt) for taccos
1 cup shreaded Lattuce or Cabbage for taccos

Method:

For Enchilladas:

1. Fry all flour tortillas in frying pan for 1 minute on both side and keep on paper towel to absorb the oil. (If you do't get tortillas from super market, make it at home like Chappaties/rotlies using Maida/wheat flour mix 2 cup Maida + 1 cup wheat flour.
2. In Steel pot boil tomato sauce with garlic paste, ginger paste, salt, sugar & 1/4 pkg Tacco mix and keep aside warm.
3. In other pan, mix refried beans with remaining 1/4 pkg of tacco mix. Note: If you don't get refried bean can, You must use any other dry beans like, kidney beans, chora beans, red beans etc overnight soaked in water +1 spoon soda to make it real softed in morning. Clean the soaked beans, boil it to make it soft and crush -do not make like paste.
4. To refried beans (or cooked crushed beans), add 1/2 tsp salt and 1/4 pk of tacco mix and warm it stove and stir for 3 minutes on stove.
5. In ovan proof oblong dish, one at a time, maximum two, put tortillas flat, spray refried mix of item 3, put some shreded cheese and roll over like enchillads. One dish with two enchlladas. Then, pour tomato sauce over two enchilladas and top with cheese and bake it in microwave or oven for 2 to 3 minute to melt the cheese. Your Enchilladas are ready to eat.

Optional: You can put Fried rice and cut Jalapenos on side of a dish.. The refried rice, can be left over rice fried in pan with onions + green paper in 1/4 cup of vegetable oil.

For Soft Taccos:

1. Use beans prepared from item 3 and put that beans in fried tortillas.
2. Add sour cream (or yogurt), shreded lattuce (or Cabbage if lattuce not available), shreded cheese, small cut pieces of fresh tomatoes and roll over.
3. Your soft taccos is ready to eat with tomato sauce from item-2.

For Non-Vegetarian Tacco lovers:

1. Boil crushed meat in open steel pot with water for 1 hour. When meat is soft and tender, drain to remove water.
2. Add some crushed onions to drained meat and use it, instead of beans in taccos.