"April Grunspan" > wrote in message
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> Many years ago there was a small chain of restaurants in Guadalajara
> called Gemma. Their most popular item was tortas (ahogadas) sitting in a
> type of tomato-based sauce.
>
> Unfortunately, Gemma's is gone now and we no longer live in Guadalajara.
>
> The question is, does anybody here have a recipe for the Gemma torta
> ahogada sauce? Does anybody here even remember Gemma?
>
> Thanks to everyone is advance!
> April G.
> San Antonio, TX

They re a bit tricky. Not tomato sauce but chile de arbol salsa. You make a
regular torta then dip it into the red chile de arbol mix, soaking the
torta, then you dip the whole thing in a deep fry being very careful not to
splash yourself with the hot oil. Chile de arbol is that longish thin red
chile that packs a dinamite whallop.
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