Recipe - Emerils Cigars With Corn And Cheese Queso Sauce

Vegetable oil for frying
2 tablespoon Olive oil
1 One half pound Beef tenderloin; trimmed and
cut into thin strips
Salt
Cayenne
1 cup Chopped onions
1 cup Chopped tomatoes; peeled and
seeded
2 tablespoon Plus 1 teaspoon chopped
garlic
18 small Flour tortillas
2 teaspoon Emeril's Creole Seasoning;
see recipe
1 Recipe Corn and Cheese Queso
Sauce; see recipe
1 cup Guacamole
1 cup Salsa

Preheat the vegetable oil to 360 degrees F in a large pan. In a large saut‚
pan, heat the olive oil. Season the beef with salt and cayenne. Sear the
beef for 1 to 2 minutes. Add the onions and saut‚ for 2 minutes. Add the
garlic and tomatoes. Season with salt and cayenne. Saut‚ for 1 minute.
Remove from the heat. Season with salt and pepper. Spoon a couple of
tablespoons of the filling in the center of each tortilla. Spread the
filling evenly in the center of each tortilla. Roll up each tortilla
tightly and secure with toothpicks, making each into a flautta. Fry the
flauttas in batches until golden brown, about 3 minutes. Remove the
flauttas from the oil and drain on a paperlined plate. Season the flauttas
with Emeril's Creole Seasoning. Continue frying until all the flauttas are
fried.

To assemble into a hero, spoon the queso on the bottom of a large platter.
Arrange the flauttas over the sauce. Garnish with the guacamole and salsa.

Yields: 6 servings.

Air date on GMA 1/23/98

Busted by Barb ob 2/21/98

Recipe by: Emeril Lagasse

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by "abprice@wf.net" abprice@wf.net on Mar 19,
1998