Torta Ahogada

Name: Torta Ahogada
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 4 sandwiches
Ingredients: 4 special birote rolls (or use crusty French rolls if unavailable); 2.2 lbs tomatoes (about 1 kg); 2 whole cloves; 3 garlic cloves; 1 small onion; 1 pinch ground cumin; 1 pinch dried oregano; 2 cups refried beans (about 480 ml); 1.1 lbs carnitas (about 500 grams); 5 dried arbol chiles; Salt, to taste

Jess Ceballos @practiJess

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Torta Ahogada

Jess Ceballos @practiJess

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Ingredients

30 min

4 sandwiches

4special birote rolls (or use crusty French rolls if unavailable)
2.2 lbstomatoes (about 1 kg)
2whole cloves
3garlic cloves
1small onion
1 pinchground cumin
1 pinchdried oregano
2 cupsrefried beans (about 480 ml)
1.1 lbscarnitas (about 500 grams)
5dried arbol chiles
Salt, to taste

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Steps

30 min

1

Boil the tomatoes. You can add the arbol chiles to the pot, but set them aside for the spicy salsa.
2

Blend the tomatoes with oregano, onion, garlic cloves, cloves, salt, and cumin.
3

In one cup of this sauce, blend the cooked arbol chiles to make a separate spicy salsa.
4

Slice the rolls in half.
5

Spread refried beans on the bottom half of each roll.
6

Add chopped carnitas as desired.
7

Pour the hot sauce generously over the sandwich.