Potato Chicken Budin (Boo-Dean)

Budin is a fancy name for enchilada casserole, or mexican lasagna. This dish is made of green chile dipped corn tortillas, cheese, pepitas, and the vegetables of your choice… stacked in a pyrex and placed in the oven. It is nothing to look at in the baking dish but your taste buds will beg to differ. One bite in, expect to be delighted.

Ingredients for potato chicken budin:

Green Chile Sauce:

8- Jalapeños

4- Serranos

8- Hueritos (Yellow chiles)

7- Big Tomatillos

5-6 Garlic Cloves

1-teaspoon Lawry’s Seasoning Salt

1 cap full of White Vinegar

a pinch of Oregano

1-teaspoon of Garlic Powder

Black Pepper

How to Prepare the Chile:

In a big pot, boil all the chiles and tomatillos for about 30 minutes or until soft. Set aside water from boiling chiles you will need it later. Allow to cool. Remove stems from all chiles, and as an option deseed chiles for a less spicy blend. Now in a blender, add chiles, garlic cloves, Lawry’s, vinegar, oregano, garlic powder, black pepper, and 1/2 cup water from boiling chiles. Do this in batches till all your ingredients are blended.

Budin Ingredients:

24 king size corn tortillas or 32 regular size tortillas

3 1/4 cups of vegetable oil

6 green onion stalks (Chopped)

1/3 of a cup of pepitas (raw pumpkin seeds)

A basket of mushrooms (cleaned and sliced)

1- Brown onion (diced into small pieces)

2 – cups shredded cooked chiken

3 – large Idaho Potatoes (peeled, boiled, and sliced)

1 heaping tablespoon of crushed red chile flakes (the kind you put on pizza)

1/4 of a cup of fresh cilantro leaves (take off the stems)

1- Package of queso fresco (I like the Cacique brand) (crumbled)

2- Cups of cheddar cheese (grated) (I use Tillamook)

2- Cups of Monterey Jack cheese (grated) (I use Tillamook)

How to make and assemble the budin:

Preheat your oven to 375. Get two large frying pans, a pair of tongs, and 1-9×13 inch Pyrex glass baking pan.

Fill one of your frying pans with 3 cups of vegetable oil and heat over a med-high flame.

In the other frying pan, fill with 1/4 cup of vegetable oil over a medium flame and wait till it gets hot, then pour in 3 to 4 cups of your green chile. Let the oil and chile combine then lower your flame very low, so that your chile will simmer.

Now you’re all set to start. Divide your stack of corn tortillas into 4 equal parts.

Dip your corn tortilla into the (Oil) frying pan, and let it fry on each side for 30- 40 seconds. You don’t want your tortilla to be too hard that it ends up looking like a tostada, but you don’t want it to rip in the layering process either. What you’re looking for is a tortilla that is slightly hard but still bends.

Then with your tongs… take your fried tortilla and immerse it into the green chile sauce. Then take it out and place it in the pyrex glass pan and start to build your first layer of fried green chile corn tortillas. Once the bottom of your pan is covered in tortillas, it is time for the next level.

Arrange your potatoes in a single layer on top of the tortillas, then continue to layer with cilantro, pepitas, green onion and queso fresco, salt and pepper.

It’s time for another layer of corn tortillas fried and dipped into the green chile. Think the same concept as layering lasagna. Once you are done with your new fresh canvas of corn tortillas… Then on this level in a single layer place mushrooms, brown onion, 1/2 amount of shredded chicken, red chile flakes, and 1 cup of cheddar cheese.