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      Title: CHILES RELLENOS (FRIED STUFFED CHILES)
 Categories: Texmex, Mexican, Main dish
      Yield: 1 servings
 
     12 lg Mild, green chiles w/stems
           <<<OR>>>
      3 cn Green chiles (4 oz.cns)
    1/2 lb Jack cheese cut into long>>>
           Narrow, strips.

--------------------------BATTER--------------------------
      1 c  All purpose flour
      1 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Salt
    3/4 c  Yellow or white cornmeal
      1 c  Milk
      2    Eggs, slightly beaten
 
  Parch and peel chiles leaving stems on.  Cut small
  slit below  the stem, removing seeds if desired.
  Insert strips of Jack cheese being careful not to
  split chile.
  
  Prepare batter:  Sift flour with baking powder and
  sald, then add cornmeal.Blend milk and slightly beaten
  eggs, then combine milk mixture with dry mixture and
  blend together. slightly moisten each chile with
  water--dip in plain flour, then in batter.  Allow to
  drain slightly and drop in deep fat which has been
  heated to 375 F.
  
  Fry until golden. Drain on paper towels. Keep warm on
  platter in 300 F. oven while completing frying and
  serve immediately.
  
  Variations: For thicker crust "double-dip" (repeat
  dipping sequence).
  :           For crunchy crust use buttermilk instead
  of sweet milk in batter.
  
  Hint:  Keep one hand for "dry", the other for "wet".
 
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