Mexican Lasagna - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1- 16 oz. can tomatoes
1 -10 oz. can enchilada sauce
1/4 c pitted ripe olives, sliced
1 tsp salt
dash of pepper
1 lb ground beef
1/2 c cooking oil
8 tortillas
4 oz. (1 c) American cheese
1 c cream style cottage cheese
1 egg slightly beaten

Preparation

Brown hamburger meat then add first 3 ingredients plus salt and pepper.
Simmer
for 20 minutes.
Heat oil in skillet.
Cut 2 tortillas into quarters.
Brown until golden and crisp.
Set aside.
Cook and brown the remaining tortillas and break these up for chips.
Stir the hamburger meat mixture occasionally as you brown the tortillas. Combine the American cheese, cottage cheese, and egg in a bowl.
spread 1/3 of the meat mixture then 1/2 of the broken chips.
Repeat this ending up the the two quarter tortilla chips as a topping for the Mexican Lasagna.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
Let set for 5 minutes.