Recipe for The Original Acapulco Restauarant Crab Enchilada - 1976 
All Recipes
Site Search Engine - Search Over 300,000 Recipes
Site Search Engine for Recipes

Yield:
6 Servings
Ingredients:
Amount Ingredient
ENCHILADAS ----------------
6 x Corn tortillas
Oil or lard
1/2 cup Crab meat, picked over and sauted in, butter
6 tbl Onion, minced
Jack cheese, shredded
Ripe olives, pitted
Avocado slices
Tomatoes, peeled and sliced
Salsa con Tomatillos
Sour Cream Sauce
----------------- SALSA CON TOMATILLOS ----------------
12 oz Tomatillos, one 12 oz can including the, juice
2 x Tortillas
Oil or lard
4 tbl Onion, chopped
1 x Fresh jalapeno chile, minced
1 tbl Fresh cilantro, chopped
1/2 tsp Fresh garlic, minced
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 cup Water, or chicken or pork broth
ts Granulated white sugar
Green food coloring
----------------- SOUR CREAM SAUCE ----------------
1/2 pt Sour cream
2 tbl Fresh cilantro, chopped
2 tbl Onion, chopped
1/4 tsp Fresh garlic, mashed with the salt
1/2 tsp Salt
Instructions:
Instructions: The Enchiladas Heat the tortillas in oil or lard until they are soft. Place 1/4 cup of crab meat in the center of each tortilla, then sprinkle with 1 Tbsp of minced onion. Spoon a little Salsa Con Tomatillos on each. Roll the enchiladas and place them in a shallow baking pan. Cover with the remaining Salsa Con Tomatillos. Sprinkle generously with shredded jack cheese and bake at 400 degrees about 10 minutes or until hot and the cheese is melted.

Serve with a dollop of Sour Cream Sauce and garnish with olives, avocado, tomato slices and pieces of crab leg.

Salsa Con Tomatillos Drain the tomatillos and reserve the liquid. Fry 2 tortillas in oil or lard until lightly browned. Break and drop into the juice of the tomatillos. While these are soaking and getting soft, saute in 4 Tbsp of oil or lard, the onions, chile, cilantro and the garlic mashed in the salt. Saute until soft but not browned. Put the tomatillos, softened tortillas and juice, sauteed mixture, water or broth, sugar and 3 drops of green food coloring into the blender. Blend until smooth. Sauce may be used as is or strained for a smoother more professional presentation.

Makes
about 2 1/3 cups of sauce.

Sour Cream Sauce Combine all of the ingredients and stir gently to blend.

Cover with plastic wrap and set aside until ready house.

NOTES :
This recipe came from Raymond G. Marshall, the man that won the Dungeness crab cook off in San Francisco with this recipe and then started the famous chain of Acapulco Mexican restaurants in California. This is the specialty.

Email this Recipe:
If you would like to email yourself the recipe for later use, or share the recipe with your friends or family, enter the email addresses below and this recipe will be emailed to you and others as well.

Your Name:
Your Email:
Email To 1:
Email To 2:
Email To 3:
  ... The Original "Hot Brown" Sandwich   ::   The Original Baked Spam   ...