Do you think I can freeze this potato filling? I'm prepping some meals for the week,

lisainla

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and don't have time to assemble and fry these all in one session.

Thanks to Traca for posting the link to this site (Food Republic)- they have some nice stuff.

Ingredients

For the potatoes

1 1/2 pounds red bliss potatoes

1 poblano chile, roasted, peeled, seeded and minced

2 tablespoons olive oil

4 tablespoons butter

1 Spanish onion, sliced

1 tablespoon sugar

1 tablespoon red wine vinegar

1 jalapeno, seeds and stem discarded, minced

1 tablespoon roasted garlic

1 cup Manchego cheese, grated

1 cup cabbage, finely shredded

Kosher salt and freshly ground black paper to taste

For the taco shells

8 6-inch corn tortillas

canola oil, for frying

Directions:

For the potato filling:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place the potatoes in a roasting pan in the oven for 1 hour, until tender when pierced with a knife. Cool until they are manageable, then peel them, discarding the skins.

Combine 1 tablespoon olive oil and 1 tablespoon butter in a medium skillet and set over medium-high heat. Add the onion and sauté for about a minute. Add the sugar and the vinegar and continue to sauté for about 4 minutes, until the onions begin to caramelize and are completely soft.

Add the jalapeño and continue to sauté 1 more minute. Remove from the heat and reserve.

Add the remaining tablespoon of oil to a sauté pan and sauté the cabbage until it wilts, about 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Mash the potatoes with the roasted garlic and remaining butter. While the potatoes are still hot, stir in the cheese, onion, poblano and the cabbage. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

For the taco shells:

Pour enough oil in a 10-inch sauté pan to a little more than cover the bottom of the pan. Get the oil hot over a medium-high heat. When it is hot place a tortilla shell in the pan and let it crisp for about 5 seconds.

With a tongs flip the tortilla over to cook the other side (about 5 more seconds). This softens the shells just enough.

Now with the tongs flip it over again, bend the tortilla into a taco shape and hold for 7 seconds. When it is crisp turn it over to crisp the other side for about 7 seconds.

Place a generous amount of potato filling in each tortilla and serve with your favorite salsa.

Level of Difficulty:

Moderate

Prep Time:

30 minutes

Cooking Time:

1 hr 20 minutes

http://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/01/25/easy-potato-tacos-recipe

 
In my experience, the peppers get a bit watery and loose texture and the cabbage can be iffy....

However, I am certain you could make this ahead of time, say a day or two, then put it all together when ready to serve.

 
That's a good idea - for some reason I didn't read the cabbage as being cooked

so that definitely won't work for freezing.

Thank you Karen!

 
this one is new to me---potato taco. can't quite wrap my head around it. although, it's kinda like

a pirogi. kinda.

 
It's a crunchy/creamy thing. I had a very dear friend whose sister used to make

these many years ago. She tried to explain how to make them to me, but I could never quite get the right flavor. This one is very close to what I remember, sans the cabbage.

I used a pasilla pepper in place of poblano, since my market never seems to have them even though I am pretty much smack in the middle of Southern CA.

 
Lisa, what they call a pasilla pepper in California is a poblano everywhere else. Dark green,

heart-shaped, mildly hot. You probably had the right one.

(And what they call a pasilla everywhere else is called a chile negro here--dried, finger-shaped, smooth and dark brown.)

 
LOL - I always pause when I'm shopping, because I can never remember which ones are which

I need to carry a pepper cheat sheet with me when I shop. smileys/bigsmile.gif

I know it's not a good idea to shop by looks (pasilla "looks like" a poblano) - I've been burned that way (literally)...

 
It doesn't help that Californians (Baja and Alta) insists that their names for chiles

are the only correct ones. My housekeeper just stares at me when I say "poblano chile." She's from Mexicali where those words do not compute.

 
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