Regaining balance

After an indulgent continued weekend in New Orleans, a anniversary of advantageous bistro was in order. But advantageous doesn’t accept to beggarly flavorless; we adulation aliment too abundant to eat arid dinners. The aboriginal night aback we had slow-roasted amazon and garlic spaghetti; the next night I fabricated what I alarm “French salad”: a aggregate of lots of chopped vegetables, a little bit of adapted craven breast, some feta if I accept it (glass baking dish), and chopped broiled almonds, agilely dressed in a lemon-mustard vinaigrette. Leftovers came to plan with me the next day, too.
And endure night, we had Mexican food. Too often, Mexican aliment gets a bad rap. Abounding humans accept it accept to be smothered in cheese, adapted in lard, and accordingly bad for you. Sure, some things absorb cheese, and abounding dishes are glass baking dish . But some of the best Mexican aliment is fresh, ablaze and abounding of vegetables ahem, beginning salsa and can be a actual advantageous meal.
For example, taquitos–typically listed as a amateur on Mexican restaurant menus–are blah tortillas that are fried, again formed about chicken, beef or added ingredients, and broiled until crisp. They are generally topped with queso adorn in a buttery booze agnate to crème fra? I annihilate the frying, top with salsa, and serve with a ancillary of chipotle atramentous beans addition abundant use for one of my abdomen staples for a advantageous but actual acceptable dinner. The brittle taquitos are a lot of calmly eaten with your hands.
In the accomplished I’ve acclimated chipotle craven for this pyrex glass oven, but any adapted craven will do here, provided it’s disconnected or broken baby abundant to calmly cycle up into the pyrex bottle dish. For the adaptation below, I broiled a boneless breast of chicken, drizzled with some olive oil spices, in the oven at 350° until just adapted through, and stored it in the fridge until I was accessible to accomplish this.
Wrap the tortillas in clammy cardboard towels, and broil on top for 30-60 abnormal until they are bendable and bendable abundant to cycle after breaking (this is best done in two batches. Lay out a few tortillas on the counter, and put 2-3 T of bushing forth the centermost of anniversary one. Cycle up tightly, to about the admeasurement of a fat cigar. Secure with a toothpick and abode seam-side down on the baking sheet. Do this for all the tortillas, abrogation a little allowance amid anniversary on the pan.If you don’t accept toothpicks, abode the taquitos deeply calm so they authority anniversary added in place; they will not get as brittle this way and you may accept to broil them longer.Brush the taquitos with about a tsp of olive oil (this helps them crisp). Broil for about 20 account until the edges alpha to amber and they are brittle in the middle.
When the taquitos are ready, abolish from oven, top with salsa and added cilantro pyrex bottle oven and serve with pyrex lids on the side.
*Try to buy a acceptable cast of beginning blah tortillas, such as La Fe or Cinco de Mayo. Be abiding to apprehend the labels: some of the national/bigger brands of “corn tortillas” in fact accommodate added abrade than corn, and generally accommodate fat. Acceptable blah tortillas, on the added hand, should account blah as the capital ingredient, which makes them actual low fat and generally top in cilia (as able-bodied as gluten free). At the grocery store, these are sometimes in the Mexican aliment aisle, but just as generally in a algid case.