Recipe: Perfect Chalupa-Joes or Sloppy Chalupas

Chalupa-Joes or Sloppy Chalupas. A chalupa (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃaˈlupa]) is a specialty dish of south-central Mexico, including the states of Hidalgo, Puebla, Guerrero, and Oaxaca. I want to make mexican chalupas. Have you ever made them and if so what recipe did you use and how did they turn out?

Try serving them with refried beans and tortilla chips for a mouthwatering Mexican meal.—Nancy Means, Moline, Illinois. These crockpot chalupas are so easy to make and so addicting! Shredded Mexican flavored pork and pinto beans over a baked crispy tortilla. You can have Chalupa-Joes or Sloppy Chalupas using 22 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chalupa-Joes or Sloppy Chalupas

1. It's of Meat.
2. You need 1 pound of ground sirloin.
3. Prepare 1 of large onion.
4. You need 1/4 pound of smoked sausage.
5. It's 3 ounces of sliced bacon.
6. You need To taste of salt.
7. It's 1 tablespoon of minced garlic.
8. You need 1 cup of pasta sauce I used Mids Italian sausage sauce.
9. Prepare of Chalupa fried bread.
10. You need 1 teaspoon of granulated garlic powder.
11. It's 1 tablespoon of sugar.
12. It's 1 teaspoon of granulated onion powder.
13. Prepare 1 cup of buttermilk.
14. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
15. You need 1 tablespoon of butter diced.
16. You need 2-1/4 cup of self rising flour.
17. Prepare As needed of peanut oil to fry in.
18. Prepare of Toppings.
19. You need 2 of large avocados.
20. It's To taste of salt.
21. Prepare 1 of large lemon.
22. You need To taste of shredded Parmesan cheese.

Well, you could certainly do one thing right now, and that would be shove your face in these crockpot chalupas. We however 'build' our Pork Chalupa UP a little differently. We use a 'bed' of Fritos Corn Chips (Scoops)(or I've bunked tradition and held the Fritos on the side and then built the following on my plate: pile on the pork chalupa. Cook the beef until it's mostly cooked through, remove most of the drippings and add the onion, peppers.

Chalupa-Joes or Sloppy Chalupas step by step

1. Fry the bacon crisp, keep the drippings. Take casing off the sausage, and chop well. Crumble the bacon..
2. Chop the onions. Fry them in the bacon drippings. Add the sausage and ground sirloin. Season with salt and minced garlic..
3. Drain the meat mixture, then add the sauce and crumbled bacon. Turn down low stirring then cover. Continue to simmer for 15 minutes. Heat the oil for frying chalupas..
4. Mix all the chalupa ingredients except the oil to fry in. Knead and form a ball..
5. Separate the dough into equal sized balls. Roll out into disc..
6. Fry 2 minutes on first side then about a minute on side 2..
7. Move to a paper towel to absorb excessive amounts of oil. Repeat till done..
8. Slice the avocados squeeze the lemon over the avocado slices and salt. Add the cheese..
9. Add some of the meat sauce to the chalupa and top with toppings..
10. Serve I hope you enjoy!.

This chalupa recipe is such a refreshing change of pace from traditional chili. It's also fun to serve to guests. Nearly everyone who's sampled it has requested the recipe. Chalupas Recipe photo by Taste of Home. Chalupa is a specialty of South Central Mexico.