BUCKETS WORLD FAMOUS (rojas) CHILAQUILES (actually still a work in process; suggestions/tweaks welcome)
Ingredients
Sauce:
1 28-ounce can whole tomatoes
3 stemmed jalapenos
2 chipotle chilis in adobo sauce plus scrap out the sauce gunk; be careful here these things get hot, DO NOT put a whole can or you will have massive fire butt
1 dried ancho pepper; also be careful here, this really ups the spice level for you wusses
1/2 white onion
3 garlic gloves
Salt
Chips:
Technically you should leave out some corn tortillas, let em get stale then cut them into chips and crisp them up by frying in some oil
BUT the whole foods by me makes their own tortilla chips in-house and they're thick and crunchy, so i leave those out overnight and they're fine
Point is that you want some nice thick ass corn chips that won't get too soggy, so do whatever works. You can't drop tostino's in this meal.
Other Stuff:
Chicken Broth
Liquid Smoke
Queso Fresco
Shredded sharp cheddar
Guac
Chicken*
Cilantro
Chopped onion
Sour cream (if you want)
Cooking:
1 - Put all the sauce stuff in a food processor/high speed blender and blend it all into a smooth ass sauce
2 - Heat up 1 tbsp or so of vegetable oil in a pan on the stove, pour the sauce into the pan, add two drops of liquid smoke
3 - Get it close to bubbling and then turn the heat to low and add ~1 cup of chicken broth, stir it all up
4 - Add the chips, to avoid breakage try not to move them or stir too much, just one quick slide under the sauce
5 - Cover it up and let it marinate for not more than 5 minutes (in my experience anything more than 5 minutes will make them soggy)
6 - My recommendation is to use tongs to pull the chips out directly otherwise you'll have a nice bowl of tortilla chilaquile soup
7 - Make a nice base layer of chips, put the cheese on first so it melts on the chips; let it cool for a minute then sprinkle some chopped onions, then add a dallop of guac, then add some chicken (I don't give a shit what kind of chicken you use*), then your cilantro and maybe sour cream (I personally feel like the sour cream is overkill but white ppl love so I thought it made sense to suggest it to you guys)
*chicken: my suggestion is to get a rotisserie chicken, pull the meat off and pat it dry. then cover it in a blend of chili powder, paprika, salt, pepper and crisp it up in a cast iron pan with some oil. but honestly - i've left the chicken out completely and its fine, so do whatever here.