How do you make chicken enchiladas?

Question

Is the sauce the same way, how you make for the mexican enchiladas?

Answer 1

Enchilada Sauce

1/4 cup yellow onion, diced fine
2 TB garlic, minced
2 cups chicken stock
2 TB chile powder
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp paprika
1/4 TB dried oregano

Place onions in saute pan and saute for about 2 minutes over medium heat. Add garlic. When both are golden, add chicken stock and oregano. Simmer for 5 minutes then strain. Return to saucepan and add all other ingredients, simmer for minutes...then thicken with a cooked roux. Season with salt and pepper.

Moest Tex Mex kitchens here in San Antonio make enchilada sauce this way...and it is very tasty. most here use chicken base instead of stock, but it would be waaay better to use the stock.



Chicken Enchiladas
Ingredients
3 cans Enchilada Sauce
Red or green, I like to use medium, but mild is fine too. Good brands are Hatch or Old El Paso. You can also use 6 cups of Red Chile Sauce Recipe.

3-4 boneless chicken breasts

1 T vegetable oil

1 medium onion, chopped

1/2 pound cheese, grated (colby, mild cheddar, or longhorn)

12-14 corn tortillas


Instructions
Marinate chicken pieces in 1/2 can of enchilada sauce (or one cup, if using home made) all day or overnight. Reserve the other 1/2 can for later. Bake chicken and sauce at 350° for 30 minutes. Allow to cool, then shred or cut into small pieces. Put the cut chicken back in the baking pan with the sauce and mix. In a large skillet (big enough to eventually hold the chicken), cook the onion in oil until translucent and soft. Add the chicken and sauce to the onions and heat through. Heat the oven to 350°.

Steaming, filling, rolling, and placing the tortillas is an assembly-line process. First, prepare a 9x12 baking dish by pouring the other 1/2 can of enchilada sauce (or 1 cup home made sauce) over the bottom (this keeps the enchiladas from sticking or getting hard). Fill a large shallow bowl with water and heat a small (tortilla-sized) frying pan over fairly high heat.

Dip a tortilla in the water then cook in the pan, turning frequently until soft.
Fill the steamed tortilla with a small amount of chicken and grated cheese.
Roll the tortilla and fillings together.
Place the rolled enchilada in the baking dish against the short side, in one corner.
Steam, fill and roll each tortilla one at a time and place each one in the baking dish next to the previous one until you reach the end of the pan. I can usually fit 8-10 from the top to the bottom of the pan, depending on how much filling I've used. You should be able to fit 4 more lengthwise (along the long side of the pan) next to the row you just finished (2 next to each other at the top and 2 at the bottom).

Distribute any leftover fillings over the top of the enchiladas in the pan (or if you're my husband, steam a few more tortillas and fill those to eat while the others are cooking). Pour the 2 remaining cans of sauce (or 4 cups if using home made sauce) over the top of the enchiladas, making sure no tortillas are exposed. Top with remaining cheese.

Bake, covered with aluminum foil at 350° for 15 minutes. Remove foil and continue baking for 15 more minutes. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving. This serves 4 for us, but if you serve it with beans and rice, you could definitely stretch it to 8 servings.


Red Chile Sauce
Ingredients
1 1/2 T red chile powder

1 cup hot water

2 cloves garlic, crushed

1 1/2 T fat (from cooked meat, or use lard or shortening)

1 T flour

1/2 t salt

Instructions
Soak chile powder and garlic in hot water and set aside. Melt fat in a small saucepan. Add flour. Cook and stir until browned. Add chile mixture and salt. Bring to a boil, then simmer until thickened. Makes approximately one cup.

Answer 2

I havent found a really good enchilada sauce here in Georgia. One that i do buy is in a powder form and you make it with tomato sauce, I leave it simmering for a long time and then let it sit for like an hour until it is really thick, its okay. I hope you get a good one so I can try it!!

Answer 3

Recipe Ingredients:

12 to 16 Mission® Flour Tortillas (or Mission® Corn Tortillas)
4 large Chicken Breasts* cooked and cut up in small pieces
2 cans Cream of Chicken Soup
8 oz. can Green Chiles diced
1 pint Sour Cream
2 cups Monterey Jack Cheese grated
2 cups Sharp Cheddar Cheese grated
1 small can Black Olives sliced
1 small Onion grated
8 Green Onion Tops chopped


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Recipe Instructions:

1. Combine soup, onion, green onion tops, sour cream, Chiles, and black olives. Add most of the cheeses, saving some for the top. Set aside 1 cup of this mixture without the chicken. Then add the cut up chicken to the remaining mixture.
2. In a 9 x 13-inch greased shallow baking dish, fill each tortilla with some of the chicken mixture and roll up, folding ends in if you so desire. Pour remaining sauce over the top of filled tortillas and sprinkle with remaining cheese.
3. Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes.

Enjoy this delicious chicken enchiladas Mexican food recipe!

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Type of recipe: Poultry

Preparation Time (min): 60
Cook Time (min): 45
Prep Tool: Oven

Answer 4

Oh boy do I cheat. In the meat section is Chi-Chi's shredded chicken for tacos, comes already seasoned in a nice little microwavable bowl. I mix that with a little shredded cheese, then spoon it into a taco sized tortilla, then top with canned enchilada sauce, shredded cheese, and black olives. Then sour cream for each individual to put on top. SO easy and half done for me.

Answer 5

buy a can of Old El Paso green enchilada sauce and follow the recipe on the back

Answer 6

Same way you make beef enchiladas, but use chicken. Yes..the sauce is the same.

Answer 7

I use oretago can sause,saute chicken, onions & peppers add one pack of faeita seasoning to chix mix if you want add white wine instead of water,cook for 7-8 min.drain the liquid into the sauce.wrap chix into tortias pour on the sauce top with sharp chedder crush chips on top of cheese bake 15-20 min top with lots of sour cream ,,,,,,,,,,,,oh yeah

Answer 8

wrap up chicken in a corn tortillas, put it in a baking dish, sauce em up, put some cheese, pop it in the oven for 20 minutes.

Answer 9

bake some chicken put in a tortilla withsome chicken fry it and enjoy!!!(don't fry it for to long)