Tortilla Pie

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Cooking time: About 25 minutes
Prep time: About 10 minutes

Makes: 3 - 4 servings

    

Ingredients

• 4              10 inch flour tortillas
• 1 T.           olive oil
• 1 cup        chopped yellow onion
• 1               clove garlic, minced
• 1 t.             chili powder
• 1 t.             cumin
• 12 oz.         lean ground beef
• 4 oz.         grated cheese (Swiss, cheddar or Manchego)
• 1 cup        chopped tomatoes
• 1/2 cup     taco sauce or enchilada sauce
• 1/2 cup     sliced black olives

    

Directions

1. Heat oil in frying pan. Saute onions 4 minutes.
2. Add garlic, cumin and chili powder. Cook 2 minutes.
3. Add beef and saute 5 minutes, breaking up big chunks of meat.
4. Stir in taco sauce and heat 5 minutes.
5. Place one tortilla on baking pan. Top with 1/3 of beef mixture and cheese.
6. Top with second tortilla and then add 1/3 of beef mixture and cheese.
7. Top with third tortilla and remainder of beef mixture and cheese.
8. Spread olives on the meat and top with final tortilla.
9. Bake 10 minutes in 450 deg. F. oven. Let cool 5 minutes.

Based on recipes from the Internet.
Leftovers are good eaten cold like a sandwich.

 

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