I prefer that method too, when making a bunch, I spray an oblong baking dish, spread some beaten egg mix, layer withthe stuffed chiles & add more egg - bake @350 about 15-20 minutes (till egg is solid), remove from oven, slice between the peppers, lift out & serve Sharen Rund Bloechl Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems Sunnyvale Data Center sharen.rund.bloechl@lmco.com Phone: 408-756-5432 [or] Fax: 408-756-0912 srund@svl.ems.lmco.com LMnet: 8-326-5432 Pager: 408-539-5146 web: http://webpager.lmms.lmco.com/perl/mtrocall.cgi [or] Operator Assist: 1-800-725-5079, pin 408-539-5146 > ---------- > From: Doug Irvine[SMTP:dougandmarie@home.com] > Reply To: dougandmarie@home.com > Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 9:37 AM > To: Bloechl, Sharen Rund > Cc: chile-heads@globalgarden.com; 'margaret lauterbach' > Subject: Re: [CH] chiles in the north > > > > Big snips<<<< > > > > If push comes to shove - canned Ortegas are a good substitute - take > them > > out of the can, slit open down one side, sprinkle to taste w/your > favorite > > pepper powder, add the cheese, fold the pepper edges over the cheese, > roll > > in coating mix & cook > > > We do that quite a lot, but use our own peppers, which Marie roasts, and > then removes the skin and seeds, and then we stick em in a little jar > and freeze them....but to use them? Rather than a coating mix, which > entails deep frying them, I mix up an egg, with 1 tbls water, and place > some of that in a non stick pan, wait until it sorta sets, then place > the stuffed pepper on one side of it, and fold the other side around > it...voila! a chile relleno, not deep fried, and the one egg will do at > least two..Doug in BC >