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Battle #2 - Cheese - Chips & Cheese Dip, Fried "Quesurritos" With Red Sauce
When I think cheese, I think mexican! Since this wasn't an area I'd had much experience with (I make a mean taco but that's about it), it seemed perfect for learning. And since I'm an unhealthily-eating girl in her early twenties, I busted out the deep fryer. [Here](http://imgur.com/a/5nA6N/iron_chefit_2__alliekins) is the resulting requisite imgur album. For some reason imgur uploaded it backwards, so you should probably start at the end. If you just want to see the finished products: [here is where you should click](http://i.imgur.com/jhwgR.jpg)! *** **Course 1: Chips and Cheese Dip** *Ingredients:* 2 cloves garlic 2 scallions 1/4 cup diced sweet peppers, red and orange (left over from the last challenge, as it were) 1 jalapeno, diced 3 oz cream cheese 1/2 cup milk 1 tbsp corn starch 1/2 cup cubed cheddar 1/4 cup cubed monterey jack 1 tbsp olive oil 2 tbsp butter Corn torillas, cut into wedges Salt to taste *Directions:* * Deep fry tortilla wedges in canola oil until golden brown. Blot with paper towel to remove excess grease, and salt lightly. Then make the dip: * Melt butter in a saucepan. * [Add olive oil, garlic, peppers (inc jalapenos), and scallion (but save some green tops for garnish) and simmer on medium to extract juices from peppers.](http://i.imgur.com/byJ2C.jpg) * Add cream cheese and let melt. * Whisk in corn starch and milk, then add cheddar and monterey jack. Melt and whisk and melt until cheese is smooth. * Garnish with the scallion greens I told you to save above. **Finished product:** [Tortillas and Cheese Dip](http://i.imgur.com/xg0rt.jpg), [blurry action shot](http://i.imgur.com/FPBJK.jpg) *** **Course 2: "Quesurritos", unless they have another name already** *I think they might actually be a kind of dumpling? Having never had dumplings growing up I'm not entirely sure what those are. I decided to name them fried quesurritos, because they're basically chicken quesedilla filling wrapped up vaguely like a burrito in a flour tortilla-y / pie crust-y dough, then fried.* *Ingredients*: Chicken Rosemary Olive Oil Dash of cumin Butter 2 cups flour 1 tsp salt 2 tbsp vegetable oil 1/4 cup shortening 1/2 cup warm water Cheddar Monterey Jack *Directions:* * [Cube chicken into small pieces and fry in oil, butter, rosemary, and cumin](http://i.imgur.com/J9IUv.jpg), then set aside. I did this a couple of days in advance and just kept the lot refridgerated. * Blend flour, salt, and vegetable oil. * Using a fork (or if you're fancy, a pastry blender), cut shortening in until uniform. * Add water and blend with fork as long as you can, then with fingers. * Knead until it's a dough and has absorbed all the flour, about 3-4 minutes. * [Take a small ball of dough, about what you'd use for a single cookie](http://i.imgur.com/dFKNQ.jpg) * [Roll it flat.](http://i.imgur.com/OWcTg.jpg) * [Add your chicken and cheese, about 3:1 monterey to cheddar.](http://i.imgur.com/eUYL9.jpg) * [Roll it up like a burrito](http://i.imgur.com/wnWiV.jpg) then [pinch the ends closed and fold them up](http://i.imgur.com/pYy7N.jpg), using a little water on your fingers to make the dough stick to itself. * Deep fry until golden. **Sub-Item: Awesome Red Sauce For Dipping** *Ingredients:* 1 12-oz can tomato paste 1 cup warm water 1/4 cup oregano 1 tbsp basil 1 tbsp parsley 1 tbsp garlic powder 1 tsp salt *Directions:* * Combine all in a saucepan, mix thoroughly and simmer for 3 minutes. Serve warm. **Finished Product:** [Quesurritos and dipping sauce](http://i.imgur.com/ByLdi.jpg), [ohmigawd these were delicious](http://i.imgur.com/9Fovc.jpg) more