gift basket, tortillas, mexican rice recipe

HOWDY FRIENDS…..from Mexican Food To Go
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**THE MANY FACES OF THE MEXICAN TORTILLA**

Mexican cooking starts now as in the Aztec days with tortillas, the "bread of Mexico".
Mexicans use them as plates, forks and spoons. They dip their tortillas into stews and use
torn off pieces to scoop up sauces. They are the staple in a whole repertoire of dishes…..

* Take a tortilla and fold it around any food and you have a taco, the Mexican style
"sandwich", hard fried or soft folded and rolled around food.
* Take a larger hard rolled taco and you have a flautas (flutes).
* Take a flat tortilla and fry it til crisp and you have a tostada.
* Take a flat tortilla and cook it slightly in a red chile pepper sauce and you have an enchilada.
* Take a stale tortilla, cut it into strips and fry slightly and cover it with salsa and you have chilaquiles.
* Take a really stale tortilla, fry it til crispy and you have tortilla chips.

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** RECIPE **

The Easiest Mexican Rice & Chicken Dinner
Ingredients
1 tbsp. oil
4 small boneless chicken breasts, approx. 1 lb
2 cups water
1 1/2 cup Tejano Salsa, mild or medium
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2 cups Minute Rice, uncooked
8oz. can whole kernel corn, drained
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

Directions:
Heat oil in a large skillet, add chicken, cover and cook 4 minutes each side.
Stir in rice and corn. Top with chicken. Sprinkle cheese, cover.
Cook on low for 5 minutes.
This one’s for you kids!!
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DID YOU KNOW……..
Make Mexican rice loose and dry: use a non stick skillet or wok and sautee the dry rice grains in a bit of olive oil or vegetable oil until translucent. Then continue with your liquids ingredients and cook until the grains are tender.
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Salsa is the Spanish word for sauce: in 1988, only 16% of US households bought salsa. By 1992, this figure climbed to 36%. For the past 5 years, salsa outsells Ketchup by $40million annually in the US market. The tortilla chip is now consumed by 60% of all US households.
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