For a quick, easy meal, whip up these Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas with ingredients you most likely have on hand!
Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas
Enchiladas are one of my go to meals. I know, without a doubt, my family will eat them up every time. Beef enchiladas, chicken enchiladas, enchilada dip, you name it, I’ll make it! This recipe is for Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas. And one of the best things about it is that it’s super easy to make.
If you like this recipe, you’ll like these too:
- Mom’s Chicken Enchiladas
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- Chicken Enchilada Dip
How to Make Enchiladas
As I just mentioned, there are a lot of types of enchiladas. The possibilities really are endless. To make enchiladas you need a few key ingredients: corn tortillas, filling and sauce. The word “enchilada” is the past tense in Spanish for “to season with chili.” (13+ years of studying Spanish in school finally paid off!) So typically, enchiladas are covered in a tomato and chili pepper based sauce. Having said that, you can use whatever type of sauce you want. Most of the time I make enchiladas with a red sauce or white sauce. But this version uses a green sauce.
Tortilla tip: My mom taught me when using corn tortillas to heat them up in the microwave. You get a paper towel slightly wet (run it under the faucet water quickly and squeeze any excess out), add about 5 corn tortillas on the paper towel and fold it over. Microwave for approximately one minute to soften the tortillas. Be careful when you take them out because they are hot! This makes it really easy to roll them after putting in the filling. If you don’t heat them up, they will crack.
It’d be perfectly paired with 15 Minute Instant Pot Mexican Rice and some black beans on the side. Yum!
Green Chile Chicken Enchilada Recipe
Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas
Ingredients
- 4 skinless boneless chicken breast halves
- garlic salt to taste
- 18 6-inch corn tortillas torn in half
- 28 oz green chile enchilada sauce
- 16 oz shredded Monterey Jack or Cheddar Cheese
- 8 oz sour cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Lightly grease a medium baking dish.
- Season chicken with garlic salt.
- Arrange in the prepared baking dish.
- Bake 45 minutes in the preheated oven, until no longer pink and juices run clear.
- Cool, shred, and set aside.
- With metal tongs, char each tortilla half over the open flame of a gas stove burner for about 1 minute, until lightly puffed.
- Pour about ½ inch enchilada sauce in the bottom of a medium baking dish, and arrange 6 tortillas in a single layer.
- Top with ½ the chicken, ⅓ cheese, ½ the sour cream, and ⅓ of the remaining enchilada sauce. Repeat.
- Coat remaining tortillas thoroughly with remaining enchilada sauce, and arrange on top of the layers.
- Sprinkle with remaining cheese, and top with any remaining enchilada sauce.
- Cover, and bake 45 minutes in the preheated oven.
- Cool slightly before serving.
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What type of enchiladas do you prefer? Have you made a green sauce version before?