Tuna Sopes

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Cooking time: About 30 minutes
Prep time: About 20 minutes

Makes: 2 servings

Ingredients for Creamed Tuna

• 1 T.    mild olive oil
• 1 T.    flour
• 1/4 cup    chopped onions
• 3/4 cup    milk
• 1         6 oz. can of tuna, drained

Ingredients for Sopes

• 1 cup    masa harina (corn tortilla flour)
• 1/2 t.    baking powder
• 1/4 t.    salt
• 3/4 cup    hot water
• 2 t.     mild olive oil

Directions for Creamed Tuna Filling

1. Heat olive oil in pan. Add flour and stir continuously 5 minutes on medium heat.
   Stop when flour is caramel color. Don't let it burn.
2. Add chopped onions and saute 5 minutes.
3. Add milk and cook 5 minutes with stirring to thicken.
4. Gently blend in drained tuna, breaking it into chunks.

Directions for Sopes

1. Blend masa, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Mix in hot water.
2. Let cool 5 minutes. Mix until a ball forms.
3. Coat a baking pan with olive oil.
4. Separate dough ball into four portions. Form into 1/8" thick disks.
5. Place disks on baking sheet. Form 1/4" high rims on edge of disks.
6. Bake in 350 deg.F oven 10 minutes.
7. Fill the 4 sopes with creamed tuna mix.
8. Bake another 10 minutes.

A combination of a sopes recipe from the Internet and a tuna casserole recipe from "Joy of Cooking".

The sopes are also good filled with pulled pork.

 

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