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Turkey & potato taquitos

Name: Turkey & potato taquitos
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 500g leftover roast potatoes roughly crushed with a fork; 200-300g leftover roast turkey or chicken, shredded; 8 corn tortillas; 350ml vegetable oil; 1 small red onion halved and thinly sliced; 1 lime juiced; ¼ tsp dried oregano; 150g iceberg lettuce chopped; 100g soured cream; 50g wensleydale grated or crumbled; hot salsa (optional)

Karla Zazueta

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Serves 8

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 10 mins

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Use up leftover turkey and potatoes to make these moreish Mexico-style fried taquitos. Enjoy with lettuce, soured cream, cheese, pickled onions and salsa.

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Ingredients

Nutrition

Units:

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500g leftover roast potatoes

roughly crushed with a fork
200-300g leftover roast turkey

or chicken, shredded
8 corn tortillas
350ml vegetable oil

For the pickled onions

1 small red onion

halved and thinly sliced
1 lime

juiced
¼ tsp dried oregano

To serve

150g iceberg lettuce

chopped
100g soured cream
50g wensleydale

grated or crumbled
hot salsa

(optional)

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Nutrition: Per serving

kcal389
fat19g
saturates3g
carbs37g
sugars2g
fibre3g
protein17g
salt0.9g

Method

step 1

First, make the pickled onions. Tip the onions into a non-metallic bowl, sprinkle with ½ tsp salt and set aside for 5 mins. Rinse off the excess salt, drain and return to the bowl along with the lime juice and oregano. Set aside to pickle until needed. Will keep chilled for a week.
step 2

Mix the crushed potatoes with the leftover turkey. If needed, roughly chop the mixture – it should be fine enough to hold itself together, but still retain some texture. Spoon some of the mixture over half of each tortilla, then fold to enclose the filling and press firmly.
step 3

When all the tortillas have been filled, heat the oil to 180C in a deep-sided frying pan, or until a cube of bread dropped in browns within 20 seconds. Put two taquitos in the pan at a time, and fry for about 1 min on each side. When ready, they will be golden and crunchy. Put the fried taquitos on a tray lined with kitchen paper.
step 4

Arrange the taquitos on a plate and serve with the lettuce, soured cream, cheese, pickled onions and hot salsa, if you like.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2022

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