Flaquitos

Title:
Flaquitos

Yield:
18 Flaquitos

Categories:
Appetizers,
Hamburger,
Mexican




Ingredients:





     1 sm Onion; grated


     1 ts Cooking oil


   1/2 lb Ground beef, lean


     1 ts Salt


     1 ts Cumin


     1    Garlic clove; minced


   1/4 ts Hot sauce; to 1/2 ts.


    18    Tortillas; fresh


     2 c  Cheese; shredded


          Shortening; hot






 Cook onion in cooking oil in heavy skillet. When onion is wilted, add meat


 and cook until mixture turns white. Add salt, cumin, garlic, and hot sauce;


 cook about 5 minutes to allow flavors to blend.


 


 Put 2 or more tablespoons meat mixture on one edge of tortilla; add 2 to 3


 tablespoons shredded cheese. Roll carefully; fasten edges with a toothpick.


 


 Place flaquitos in a wire basket; plunge into hot shortening and cook until


 crips.  Do not overcook.


 


 SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, June, 1974. Typed for you by Nancy


 Coleman.