Name: Enchilada Layer Pie

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. ground turkey
• 1 medium onion
• 1 clove garlic
• 2 teaspoons butter
• ½ teaspoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 can refried beans
• 1 (4 1/2 oz.) can chopped ripe olives
• 1 can diced tomatoes
• 8 tortillas, buttered
• 2 cups grated cheese
• ½ cups water

Instructions:

• Saute beef, onion and garlic in butter.
• Add seasonings
• Mix in beans, olives, and tomatoes, and heat.
• In a casserole baking dish, alternate layers of buttered tortillas, meat sauce, and 1½ cups of the cheese.
• Sprinkle rest of cheese on top.
• Pour water at edge.
• Cover and bake in the oven at 400ºF for 30 minutes.

Comments: 5/5/2012 - prepared for Cinco de Mayo. Did not add any salt or pepper. Used only 4 8-inch corn tortillas, unbuttered. No-stick frying pan was a little too small. Used largest casserole dish.
3/12/2013 - Meat sauce spread out in largest casserole dish so much that I only used two layers of 6-inch corn tortillas. Removed salt from the recipe and substituted turkey for beef.
11/30/2015 - Used Lightlife meatless Mexican crumbles in place of ground meat. Filled largest round casserole dish and half of a smaller one. With 4 whole wheat tortillas and 2 corn tortillas, the total salt was about 5,570 mg, or about 350 mg (14‰ of recommended max) per serving.
2/23/2019 - I augmented the recipe with 3 broccoli florets, chopped fine, a cup of corn kernels, and 4 1/2 oz of chopped green chiles. In addition to the listed spices, I added a teaspoon of salt substitute. The refried beans were La Preferida-brand black beans. The corn tortillas were 6-inches in diameter. In the largest casserole dish, I did a layer of meat sauce, a layer of cheese, 3 tortillas, a layer of meat sauce, 3 tortillas, a layer of cheese, a layer of meat sauce, and the final layer of cheese. The casserole dish was completely filled. After cooking and before serving, I garnished it with slices from a half avocado.
8/3/2019 - I modified the recipe to avoid using the oven in the Moving House. I used about 0.6 lb of meat loaf meat, a can of refried beans, a small can of sliced black olives, two tomatoes, and, in place of the tortillas, crushed corn chips. I used the amount of spices in the recipe, and cooked it all in a skillet on the stove top.

Source: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1949,154178-255198,00.html

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