Easy Tamale Pie
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Ingredients:
1lb ground beef                                                   
1/2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tbsp butter
2 onions, chopped
1 garlic clove, chopped
1 whole pimento, chopped
1/2 green pepper, chopped
2- 8oz cans tomato sauce
1/4 cup water
1 tbsp Gebhardt Chili powder (click for product)
Dash of hot sauce
1 tbsp. flour
2 tbsp. cold water
2 cups Monterrey Jack grated cheese
2 cups corn chips, crushed

Directions:
Brown hamburger in oil & butter. Add chopped onions, garlic, pimento & green pepper & cook for 5 minutes. Add tomato sauce, water & chili powder & hot sauce. Make a paste with flour and water. Slowly pour and stir into meat sauce. Simmer for 20 minutes.

Layer in casserole: 1/2 meat sauce, 1 cup cheese & 1 cup crushed corn chips. Repeat layer, making 2 layers in all.
Bake @350 degrees for 20 - 25 minutes.

About Gebhardt chili powder: in 1902 (or thereabouts) a German immigrant named William Gebhart, living in New Braunfels, Texas (not far from San Antonio) created chili 'powder' which helped popularize chili and eventually was sold under the brand name Gebhardt's Chili Powder. In fact, Gebhart's Chili powder, with a Mexican Sombrero bearing the name on the label, is still sold in the area.