[CH] Huevos de Muerte
Rich and Patti (macknet@pacbell.net)
Mon, 2 Jan 2006 08:17:38 -0800 (PST)
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Huevos de Muerte has been a New Year food tradition in our family for
many years. It's based on a recipe I found in an Orange County, CA
newspaper (Santa Ana Register) 25, maybe 30 years ago.
Huevos de Muerte (Quiche of Death)
1/2 pound hot country style sausage
1/2 pound Mexican style pork chorizo
1 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
15 fresh jalapeno chiles, seeded, deveined and chopped
1 cup grated cheddar cheese
1 cup grated jack cheese
4 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup washed and chopped cilantro
flour tortillas as needed
Fry sausage and chorizo together. Add onion and bell pepper
and fry to wilt. Drain, saving rendered fat. Beat eggs and
milk. Stir jalapenos and cilantro into egg/milk mixture.
Using a basting brush, paint tortillas with rendered fat and
cover the bottom and sides of a 10 inch pie pan, overlapping
as necessary. Repeat, with another layer of tortillas painted
with rendered fat as before. Spread sausage/onion/pepper mix
over tortillas. Spread cheeses over sausage. Pour in egg/milk
mixture. Bake in 375 F degree oven until eggs are set (should
take about 45 minutes).
Rich
P.S. - This year I used fresh jalapenos rather than the canned,
pickled jalapenos the original recipe called for. Think I'll
either go back to using canned or perhaps sauté the chopped
jalapenos before adding to the eggs/milk mixture next time.
Rich McCormack (Poway, CA) macknet@pacbell.net
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