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  • Chicken Enchiladas

    Today is Cinco de Mayo and I am featuring a chicken enchilada recipe that you can make with ingredients you have in your pantry. It is a family favorite at my house. It is comfort food at its best. So let’s get started.

    Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Then mix the can of cream of chicken soup and 1/2 cup of sour cream. Then set it aside. Cook the 1/2 cup chopped onion and 1 teaspoon chili powder in 2 tablespoons of butter until tender stirring occasionally. Stir in 2 cups of cooked chicken, 1 can of chopped green chilis and 2 tablespoons of the soup mixture.

    Along the center of each tortilla spread 1/4 cup of this chicken mixture. Fold sides over filling and place seam side down in a greased 9″x13″ pan. .

    Spread remaining soup over the top.

    Sprinkle with 1 cup of cheddar cheese, cover with foil, and bake for 15 minutes.

    Chicken Enchiladas

    • 1 can cream of chicken soup
    • 1/2 cup sour cream
    • 2 cups diced cooked chicken
    • 2 tablespoons butter
    • 1/2 cup chopped onion
    • 1 teaspoon chili powder
    • 1 (4.5 ounce) can chopped green chilis
    • 6 flour tortillas
    • 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

    1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Then mix the can of cream of chicken soup and 1/2 cup of sour cream. Then set it aside. Cook the 1/2 cup chopped onion and 1 teaspoon chili powder in 2 tablespoons of butter until tender stirring occasionally. Stir in 2 cups of cooked chicken, 1 can of chopped green chilis and 2 tablespoons of the soup mixture.

      Along the center of each tortilla spread 1/4 cup of this chicken mixture. Fold sides over filling and place seam side down in a greased 9"x13" pan.

      Spread the remaining soup over the top.

      Sprinkle with 1 cup of cheddar cheese, cover with foil, and bake for 15 minutes.

  • Chicken Enchiladas

    chicken enchiladas 3Do you love to have meals ready to go in your freezer?  Then this is the recipe for you.   During this next month, I will concentrate on recipes that are great for freezing so I can help my sister, who is expecting her 3rd daughter next month, load her freezer with great meals.  The first freezer friendly dish that I will focus on is Chicken Enchiladas.  It’s easy to make and loaded with flavor.  This recipe has a wonderful blend of delicious chicken, melted cheese, a savory sauce with green chiles, and corn tortillas. So let’s get started filling our freezers! 

    Start by cooking the chicken.  I seasoned the chicken with salt and pepper and then I baked it in the oven at 350 for 1 hour.  Your chicken might take less time since I used thick chicken breasts.   Make sure your chicken has an internal temperature of 165 degrees before taking it out of the oven.  Once it is cooked, shred the chicken and put it into a bowl that you will set aside.

    chicken Next you need to make the sauce.  In a pan heat 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil.

    oil for enchiladasRemove the oil from the heat. Mix in the flour.

    adding flour to sauceAfter the flour is mixed in, put it back on the heat.

    mixing in the flour Pour in the chicken stock.

    adding chicken stockAdd the tomato paste.

    adding tomato pasteMix in the can of green chiles, 1 teaspoon of cumin, 1 teaspoon of oregano,1 tablespoon of brown sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Then simmer for 20 minutes.

    adding green chilis

    Now you can start making the filling.  Chop the onion and brown it in a pan with some vegetable oil.

    chopped onioncoked onion

     In a bowl mix the shredded chicken, onion, 2 cups of cheddar cheese and a 1/2 teaspoon of salt.

    adding onion to filling

     cheese mixed into filling

    Now that the filling is done you are ready to assemble the enchiladas.

    filling and sauce

     Spread 1/2 cup of sauce on the bottom of a 9″x13″ casserole dish.

    sauce on the bottom of panDip tortillas in the sauce.

    dipping tortillias into sauceSpoon 3 tablespoons of filling onto each tortilla.

    putting filling in the tortilliaRoll up and arrange, seam side down, in the 9″x13″ dish.

    putting tortillias in panPour remaining sauce over the enchiladas and sprinkle with remaining 2 cups of cheddar cheese. Cover with foil and bake for 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Remove foil and bake for 5 minutes.  Let it cool, and there you have it!  It’s ready to be served.

    chicken enchiladas done in pan

    Serve with sour cream, guacamole, tomatoes, olives, and any other taco fixings.  Now you have a yummy enchilada meal for the whole family to enjoy.  And don’t forget you can freeze them for later.  To freeze, assemble enchiladas and then before you bake them wrap with foil and freeze.  When you go to bake them later, thaw overnight in the refrigerator and cook 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven covered and then 5 minutes uncovered.

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