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You'll need, cheddar cheese, ricotta cheese, green chilis, onion, cumin, hot sauce of your choice and some won ton wrappers and a 3-inch biscuit cutter. 

You'll also need a mini cupcake pan. 

Using your 3-inch biscuit cutter, cut the won ton wrappers into 3-inch circles. Spray your mini cupcake pan with non-stick spray and mold the won ton wrappers into the cups. 

Place the cupcake pan into a 350F/180C oven for 7 to 8 minutes. 

While the wrappers are getting golden brown,  

put the cheeses into a medium bowl and add the green chilis, 

the onion and cumin, 

and your favorite hot sauce. 

By now you have some golden brown won ton cups. Take them from the cupcake pan and place on a baking sheet. 

Fill each cup with two teaspoons of the filling and bake for 10 minutes or until bubbly.

The first batch I made I topped with some sliced green olives. 

The recipe calls for ripe olive slices, which I'm  assuming are black olives. I don't have black olives so I used green. <don't do this> First, I felt like I had eyeballs following me around the kitchen and besides, I thought they tasted better without the green olives. Stan liked them and ate more than his fair share. 

This is the second batch, see much better and I didn't feel like I was being watched. ;-)

This is a creamy, cheesy, spicy little treat. I hope you'll make some soon. Plan on making an extra tray because you'll be eating the first batch while the second batch is in the making. 

I got the recipe from the Watkins Spices website. By the way, I've recently become an Independent Watkins Associate. I'll talk about that in a separate post. 

The level of heat is up to you. I used Tapatío brand hot sauce and it was plenty spicy. 

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Chiles Rellenos Cups

appetizers

  cooking spray

24 wonton skins

1 cup/250 ml reduced-fat cheddar cheese

1/3 cup/80 ml reduced-fat ricotta cheese

1/4 cup/60 ml canned green chiles, drained

2 tbsp/30 ml, inferno sauce or more if desired

1 tsp/5 ml minced green onion

1/4 tsp/1.2 ml cumin

48 ripe olive slices

  pimento slices for garnish, if desired

Cooking Directions

Spray two miniature muffin tins with cooking spray. With a 3-inch/8-cm

cookie cutter, cut wonton skins into circles. Place one circle in each

muffin cup; mold it to the cup. Spray lightly with additional cooking

spray. Bake at 350ºF./180ºC. for 7 to 8 minutes or until golden brown.

Remove from tins and place on cookie sheet(s).

Combine cheeses, chiles, Inferno Sauce, Minced Green Onion, and Cumin in

medium bowl; mix well. Fill each cup with 2 tsp/10 ml of the cheese

filling. Top with two olive slices. Bake for 10 minutes or until bubbly.

Top with pimento. Serve warm.

Makes 24 - 2 per serving.

Nutrition Facts

Makes 24 - 2 per serving.

Nutritional Information Per Serving

Calories 40

Protein 3 g

Carbohydrates 2 g

Sodium 190 mg

Fat 2 g

Saturated Fat 1 g

Cholesterol 8 mg

Dietary Fiber 0 g

Notes:  Watkins Spices

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And that's that.