Mexican Maindish for a Crowd - Ideas?

[Bexamo]

I have a pot luck supper Wednesday. There will be 150 - 200 people, and I have to bring a Mexican cuisine main dish. I thought about the Tamale Round-About, but it doesn't serve that many. Any ideas?? (Naturally, the ulterior motive AS ALWAYS is to drum up business while I'm at it...)

 

[raebates]

Taco Salad in the Trifle Bowl!

 

[dannyzmom]

I make this chicken & rice dish for pot-lucks tha tgoes really far. It's my own recipe so bear with me. I serve it in the large dots bowl.

Cube up several boneless skinless ckn breast and season heavily with SW Seasoning.
Dice an onion or two. Saute the onions and chicken together in some olive oil in the 12" skillet over M-H heat.
When done - leave that stuff in the pan, then follow tthe directions (in same pan) for a family size ba gof Vigo yellow rice (ie add water, oil & butter, bring to boil, add rice & flavor packet and cook as directed.)
When the rice is done, fork-fluff it and toss in one or two DRAINED cans of red kidney beans.
Dump into the SA Dots L Bowl.
Place a whole lot of with shredded cheddar on the top center (only in teh center) and toss in the oven at 250-300 just til the cheese melts.

 

[Teresa Lynn]

tortilla soup in our big stock pot!! I know it's not a main dish but you can make a large quantity to feed a lot of people pretty inexpensively or
enchiladas

 

[chefann]

I like Mexican Lasagna. It's like regular lasagna, but you use flour tortillas instead of noodles, taco meat instead of plain ground beef, salsa instead of pasta sauce, cheddar instead of mozzarella. Serve with sour cream. You can make a boatload in the rosting pan.

 

[Bexamo]

Thanks!The ideas you all came up with are great!! I'll have to decide on Monday... I start a new job Monday so my time to cook before the potluck is seriously short!! Thanks again, and if anyone else has great ideas to share - gimme!!

 

[chefann]

Rebecca,

I sent you an email in response to your note. (Just an FYI in case you end up here before you check your email.) Sorry it's convoluted. I don't use a real recipe for it, although I have one at home someplace.

 

[Jules711]

These sound great. Remember if you need to "add" sour cream to anything to use your EAD.