This recipe is slightly inspired by Multi Award Winning Chef Rick Bayless. I was watching him on TV using masa flour mixed with water. Then he just rolled it out…He put a leaf on it for flavor that I can’t get near me and then he spread refried beans on it and somehow made it into nice rectangular cube shapes. I think he called them some sort of Tamales? So I took the idea and rolled mesa flour dough spread with beans and rolled it like a jelly roll and stuffed them into Anaheim peppers for flavor. Then they got topped with salsa. In a little while latter I had these really cool Refried Bean Tamale Style Peppers. For serving they were topped with a little cojita cheese and some fresh cilantro. You can even bump it up a level by pouring your favorite Mexican Style Stewed Meat over it. This was this easy dish that really can wow people.

Ingredients for 4 servings

1 cup masa flour (NO SUBSTITUTIONS…..it won’t come out and won’t taste right either)

3/4 cup water

8 Tablespoons refried beans (about 3/4 can)

4 Anaheim peppers – slit the middle and cut across the stem so you can remove membrane with seeds and it also makes it easier to insert masa roll)

1 cup salsa

4 Tablespoons cojita cheese – crumbled

4 teaspoons fresh cilantro – (torn leaves)

Directions

Set oven to 400 degrees F.

Mix one cup masa flour and 3/4 cup water and mix well and then knead well. Cut the dough in half and in half again. Make each quarter into a dough ball.

Get out a rolling mat.

Over the mat pull out a piece of plastic wrap and place it on the mat.

Place one dough ball on the plastic wrap and flatten it the best you can with your hands. Go over it a little bit with a rolling pin to get it better. Spread about 2 tablespoons of refried across the flattened masa dough. Use the plastic wrap to help pull up the dough to help you make this into a jelly roll shape.

Roll it all the way and place in pepper…..Don’t worry if it crumbles…it will turn out great! Repeat till you’re done. Place peppers on a baking sheet.

Cover each pepper with salsa.

Cover baking with foil. This goes in a preheated 400 degree F over for 30 minutes and then gets uncovered and goes back in for about 15 minutes to brown some.

Then you top it with a little cojita cheese and a little fresh cilantro.

When you cut it open it looks like this.

Yummy Delish! It taste Forking Great! Everyone will love this and it was Forking EZ too!

Next one came out prettier…