Recipe - Homemade Gorditas

1 pound Prepared masa (masa
preparida), the soft dough
used for making tortillas
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Salt
1 Egg

You might try a recipe my mother gave me from Arizona for homemade
gorditas. They're something between a cornmeal pancake and a biscuit and
very easy. The only hard part is finding the masa preparida. If you've got
a tortilleria anywhere, they can sell you the stuff otherwise you'll
probably have to find a good Hispanic grocery.

Beat it all together, shape into patties no more than a 1/2" thick, and fry
in oil until golden on both sides. Drain. Traditionally, you'd dip them in
chile sauce and top with cheese and/or the usual taco accompaniments, but
they're also good wtih sugar and about anything else you can think of. For
a chile touch, you might chop your favorite chiles into the batter or dust
them with chile powder (I plan to try ground chipoltes). Posted to
CHILEHEADS DIGEST V3 #309 by David Cook zebcook@pacbell.net on Apr 28,
1997