Flaquitos
Yield: 18 Flaquitos
Ingredients:
- 1 sm Onion; grated
- 1 ts Cooking oil
- 1/2 lb Ground beef lean
- 1 ts Salt
- 1 ts Cumin
- 1 Garlic clove; minced
- 1/4 ts Hot sauce; to 1/2 ts.
- 18 Tortillas; fresh
- 2 c Cheese; shredded
Instructions:
Shortening; hot Cook onion in cooking oil in heavy skillet. When onion is wilted add meat and cook until mixture turns white. Add salt cumin garlic and hot sauce; cook about 5 minutes to allow flavors to blend. Put 2 or more tablespoons meat mixture on one edge of tortilla; add 2 to 3 tablespoons shredded cheese. Roll carefully; fasten edges with a toothpick. Place flaquitos in a wire basket; plunge into hot shortening and cook until crips. Do not overcook. SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine June 1974. Typed for you by Nancy Coleman.



