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Easy Mexican dish?
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Hey, we're doing a Mexican-style pot luck at my office tomorrow. What's something easy to make that I can take on a bus with me?
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Ground Beef, sour cream, refried beans, Queso, bacon?, Guac, etc...
Heat up real nice like, serve!
I usually use a modified version of this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Best-Spanish-Rice/Detail.aspx
I modify it in the following ways:
1) I don't brown the rice, but I do saute it until it gets kinda translucent.
2) I add more onion than that, since 2 Tbsp is nothing. I usually use 1/3 of a large yellow onion. You could substitute it for some green onion if you have that lying around instead.
3) I like spicy food so I add cayenne and chili powder, but you could easily leave that out.
Get thin steak (depending where you live you may actually find steak labeled milanesa), bread crumbs and a couple of eggs.
In a bowl crack the eggs and beat them. In a separate plate spread out the bread crumbs. Dip the steak in the eggs, then dip in the breadcrumbs so they cover the steak.
Fry, and then place on a plate with napkins so the oil seeps through.
I've done pretty much the same as you, and it's incredibly easy and very good.
It'll transport well too.
http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2009/02/side-dish-stagnation-spicy-tomato-rice.html
This guy does good stuff.
EDIT
You can also do Chili Rellnos. There are two ways. The real way which involves roasting and skinning chilies an then stuffing them with whatever filling you want and then frying them. The way I see it cooked though, pretty every Mexican place I've been to, is basically a chili, probably Ancho, is sliced and roasted and peeled, laid flat, with a topping of ground beef and Spanish styled rice and cheese.
The second way is pretty good and much easier.
Brown like 2lbs of ground beef, season with some salt/pepper/chili powder/paprika.
Refried beans
copious amounts of cheese.
slop it all on a nice warm tortilla. Put in the fridge until you get there and nuke them back to life!
The only thing that I would change is to use Sofrito instead of salsa, and I usually like to add a can of corn (drained).
Eggroll Dough
Ground Beef
Chili Powder
Taco Spices
Velveeta Cheese
Nacho Chip (Really thin strips)
Instructions
1. Dice the velveeta cheese
2. Brown the ground beef
3. Mix chili powder and taco spices with ground beef
4. Lay out the eggroll dough
5. Place one to two cubes of cheese on eggroll
6. Add a spoonful of the meat
7. Add a pinch of nacho chip strips and roll it up!
8. Deep fry for twenty to thirty seconds
9. Plate, present, and enjoy.
Optional
Add a bit of hot sauce when adding the meat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO8EiScBEjA
I'm pretty sure this and the chile rellenos are the only real Mexican dishes posted up till now. The only difference is I use flour and bread crumbs, dipping the steak in the eggs, then flour, then bread crumbs and then frying.
You can use some top sirloin and just pound it fairly flat.
1 more vote for enchiladas. They're basically oven-baked extra-nom burritos.