Easy Vegetarian Aztec Cake

Prepare this rich Aztec cake with vegetables and corn sauce, very simple and yielding. Ideal to pamper yourself in your weekly menu.
Ingredients
6
Servings
  • 1 cup requesón, for the sauce
  • 1/2 cups sour cream, for the sauce
  • 1 clove garlic, for the sauce
  • 1 1/2 cups yellow corn, canned, drained for sauce
  • 1 cup milk, for the sauce
  • 1 cup vegetable broth, for the sauce
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch, for the sauce
  • salt, for the sauce
  • pepper, for the sauce
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, for the filling
  • 1/4 cups onion, finely chopped, for the filling
  • 1 cup pumpkin, sliced, for the filling
  • 1 cup Poblano chile strips, for the filling
  • 1/2 cups yellow corn, canned, drained
  • 2 tablespoons parsley, dry, finely chopped
  • vegetable oil, to fry the tortilla
  • 16 tortillas, corn
  • 1 cup panela cheese, in cubes
  • 1 cup Manchego cheese, sliced
  • parsley, finely chopped, to decorate
Preparation
40 mins
25 mins
Low
  • Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
  • For the sauce, blend the cottage cheese together with the sour cream, garlic, yellow corn, milk, vegetable broth and cornstarch until completely integrated. Cook the sauce in a hot pot, season with salt and pepper until the consistency becomes semi-thick. Reserve hot.
  • For the filling, in a frying pan with vegetable oil, sauté the onion until its color changes slightly. Add the pumpkin, the slices, the corn, salt, pepper and parsley, cook for 3 minutes without stopping moving. Reservation.
  • Fry the tortillas in enough hot vegetable oil for 3 seconds on each side. Drain on absorbent paper and reserve until use.
  • Assemble the Aztec cake. In a suitable baking dish, place a layer of fried corn tortilla, pour the corn sauce, the vegetable filling and the panela cheese; repeat and in the last layer just place tortilla and sauce.
  • Cover the already assembled cake with sliced Manchego cheese, add parsley to taste and bake for 15 minutes at 180 ° C, or until the cheese is gratinated. Serve piping hot.

Nutritional Information

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