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Sauce~
Heat large sauté pan- add ñ drizzle olive oil with garlic ñ shallots. Sauté until shallots tender-add bay leaf ñ thyme or basil. Sauté 20 seconds- add wine - reduce until almost gone. Mixture will turn thick. Add cream with tomatillo purée - reduce by half. Add salt ñ white pepper or cracked black pepper

Filling~ Heat another pan -  drizzle olive oil with little butter - add shrimp. Sauté until shrimp just starts to turn pink. Add garlic –sauté 20 seconds. Add scallops - season salt ñ pepper. Cook now until shrimp are bright pink. Remove from heat - set aside. In another pan- cook *chorizo on medium heat until light brown. Remove meat from crab claws.

Preheat oven 350 F.

Lasagna~
Using baking pan or dish-add a ladle of sauce- a layer flat thin lasagna noodles. Place some shredded cheese-sprinkle of roasted poblanos- layer of shrimp -scallop mixture with layer of crab-ladle more sauce. Continue layering until U run out of ingredients. Top with remaining sauce- cheese ñ *chorizo. Bake 45 minutes. 8 servings.

Notes~ Use gr. beef with about 1 inch pepperoni stick (remove skin- chopped up fine if U don’t like chorizo
If you want a little chorizo taste instead of using pepperoni stick with beef use DRIED CHORIZO n chop fine. Works well also.

**Can use  one layer of ricotta cheese or a good quality of 100% goat’s milk Queso cheese ñ top with mozzarella . When use ricotta or Queso (the one layer cheese I add salt-pepper-little lemon  juice ñ zest –dash of basil ñ mix well ñ top with either mozzarella or cheddar.

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Chorizo Hj’s

1 lb. gr. pork lean

1/2 lb. gr. beef 93 %
2 to 3 garlic cloves mince fine
1/2 to 1½ tsp. crushed red pepper more for hotter or cayenne pepper

2 or 3 T. cumin powder

2 or 3 T. chili powder
1/2 to 1½ tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. gr. cloves
1¼ tsp. salt  or UR taste
1 tsp. coriander
1 to 2 tsp. Mexican oregano powder  UR taste

1/2 hand-full cilantro leaves chop fine 

Mix well together- Place in zip loc bags for freezing or use right away.

Will keep in fridge up to 4 days- freezes very well months.