Chicken Taquitos With Warm Tomato Salsa (Flautas Con Pollo) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

12 ounces Cotija cheese, crumbled
4 cups cooked chicken, shredded
24 corn tortillas
Warm Tomato Salsa
8 roma tomatoes, chopped
2 tomatillos, chopped (optional)
1 red onion, chopped
1 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
1 -2 jalapeno chile, seeded, deveined, minced
1 teaspoon Mexican oregano (not as sweet as Mediterranean)
4 tablespoons olive oil
salt, to taste
fresh ground black pepper, to taste

Preparation

Mix 3/4 cup cheese with chicken.
Heat tortillas one at a time in a very hot, dry pan until soft.
Fill and roll each tortilla, as its heated, with chicken/cheese mixture.
Secure with a toothpick.
Heat a frying pan containing 1/2 inch oil to 350\u00b0F.
Deep fry flautas until golden and crisp.
Drain on paper towel.
Serve topped with warm tomato salsa and crumbled cotija cheese.
---Salsa---.
Mix all salsa ingredients in a sauce pan over medium heat.
Saute, stirring all the while, until it just starts to simmer.
Remove from heat, its ready to serve.
This goes great with Spanish Rice (my recipe # 77908) and refried black beans (Di Neal recipe # 10614).