Recipe - Imitation Crab And Cheese Enchiladas

1 tablespoon Butter or margarine
1/3 cup Chopped onion
3 cup Imitation crab flakes or
bitesize chunks
1 cn Chopped green chiles;
drained, (4 oz.)
One fourth cup Butter or margarine
One fourth cup Flour
2 One fourth cup Milk or half and half
2 tablespoon Chopped cilantro
One half teaspoon Salt
One fourth teaspoon Black pepper
One half cup Sour cream
1 One fourth cup Shredded Jack cheese
8 Flour tortillas; (6inch)
Sliced avocado and black
olives; (optional)

Melt 1 tablespoon butter in skillet. Add onions and cook 3 minutes. Stir in
crab and green chiles. In another pan melt remaining butter. Add flour.
Stir in milk all at once. Add cilantro, salt and pepper. Cook over medium
high heat until mixture thickens and bubbles. Stir in sour cream and 1/2
cup Jack cheese until melted. Remove from heat. Stir remain ing 1 cup
cheese and cheese sauce mixture into crab mixture. Spoon 2 tablespoons
cheese sauce into bottom of 12 x 7inch or 13 x 9inch baking dish. Fill
flour tortillas with crab filling. Place filled tortillas seam side down in
baking dish. Pour remaining cheese sauce over tortillas. Sprinkle remaining
1 cup cheese over all. Bake at 350 degrees about 30 minutes or until hot
and bubbly. Serve at once garnished with avocado and olives if desired.
Makes 4 servings.
Posted to recipeludigest by "Diane Geary" diane@keyway.net on Feb 22,
1998