Simple Chicken Enchiladas amongst their chicken & cheese filling seasoned precisely for precisely the correct flavor "oomph" too moistness, these are our family-favorite enchiladas. Make a pan for tonight, too ane to freeze for later!
Here at house, we've lately had a 5-year-old piddling daughter bring together our family. She is a sweet, loving, adventurous, full-spirited piddling daughter whom nosotros adore ... too who totally runs our pa-tooties off! She is therefore total of energy, too I must acknowledge that my hubby too I are experiencing whole novel levels of tiredness equally nosotros practise our really best to continue upwardly amongst her. We'll grab upwardly on slumber inwards xv years or so, right?
I dear her adventurous spirit, too am thrilled to country that she's non alone adventurous inwards life ...but amongst food, too! 'Cause seriously ... I don't know what I would practise amongst a picky eater. No joke. A picky eater would live on really tough on me. But Little Miss H. is willing to try precisely virtually anything, too therefore far, we've alone flora virtually ii things she doesn't like.
But fifty-fifty amongst her nutrient adventurousness, I soundless wonder sometimes if she'll similar it when I brand some things. Like amongst these uncomplicated Chicken Enchiladas ...
And so, I served upwardly this dish of enchiladas amongst trepidation the other nighttime for dinner. Would Little Miss H. similar them? Or, would she plough upwardly her olfactory organ to them inwards disgust? Would I live on whipping out my back-up excogitation for her dinner? ... {yes, I had laid aside some apparently chicken inwards the refrigerator from making the filling ... just inwards case}. Or, was she going to dig into these uncomplicated Chicken Enchiladas amongst gusto, equally she does most foods??
I'm happy to report, she loved them! Yay ... some other win for the adventurous 5-year-old eating column!
Now, on this item night, I had also decided to practise a homemade enchilada sauce sense of savour exam ... pitting my homemade enchilada sauce against a expert ol' tin sack of the prepared materials ...
So I wasn't serving upwardly precisely ane pan of uncomplicated Chicken Enchiladas for dinner ... I was serving upwardly ii pans! One amongst homemade sauce, too ane amongst store-bought. And practise you lot know what?
Little Miss H. fifty-fifty participated inwards the taste-test, tasting a flake from each pan! She took her taste-testing purpose really seriously, really decidedly delivering upwardly her verdict homemade enchilada sauce was the winner, for sure. Little Miss H. approved.
For our uncomplicated Chicken Enchiladas, I whip upwardly a pretty basic chicken filling seasoned precisely amongst sauteed onion, diced greenish chilies, too tabular array salt too pepper. I similar the flavor the onion too greenish chilies add together ... it's precisely plenty "extra oomph" for the chicken without beingness likewise much going on. Some chicken enchiladas are precisely chicken ... that's it ... inwards the filling, too I must acknowledge I'm non a fan. I postulate a little bit more than that.
I also similar to add together a flake of cheese amongst the chicken when I create total my Chicken Enchiladas for added flavor too moistness within ...
I honour that filling the enchiladas amongst chicken lone tin sack live on a tad flake dry, too I don't similar dry-inside enchiladas.
Once I've filled too rolled all my enchiladas, I smother them generously amongst enchilada sauce ...
{canned is fine, though homemade enchilada sauce is fifty-fifty improve too sooooo slowly to make}
... too therefore smother generously amongst cheese ...
Once baked, you've got a bubbly pan of uncomplicated Chicken Enchiladas to savor ... seasoned precisely to seat the chicken filling precisely the correct flake of "oomph," too ... if you lot select to accept the "challenge," smothered inwards flavorfully-delicious homemade enchilada sauce.
Thankfully, all 5-year-old Little Miss H. approved.
Ingredients
- 6 c. shredded cooked chicken {About 2 lbs. boneless chicken breasts and/or thighs OR 1 whole chicken. I oft utilization a fully-cooked rotisserie chicken.}
- 2 T. butter
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 (4 oz.) can diced greenish chilies, undrained
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. black pepper
- 10 flour tortillas* {approximately 9-inch size}
- 4 c. shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 (28 oz.) can enchilada sauce {OR 1 batch homemade enchilada sauce}
- chopped cilantro and/or crumbled queso fresco for garnish {optional}
- Melt butter inwards a saute pan over medium heat. Add onion too laid upwardly until softened, virtually five minutes. Add greenish chilies, shredded chicken, salt, too pepper; stir until good combined. Remove from heat.
- Spread virtually 1 tablespoon enchilada sauce on ane side of each tortilla. Place virtually 3/4 loving cup of chicken filling downwards the centre of each tortilla. Top amongst virtually iii tablespoons to 1/4 loving cup shredded cheddar cheese. Roll upwardly each enchilada into a cigar shape. Place seam-side-down inwards a 9x13-inch baking dish.
- Pour remaining enchilada sauce evenly over the piece of work past times of the enchiladas. Top amongst remaining shredded cheese.
- Bake uncovered at 350 degrees until heated through too cheese is melted, virtually 25 to thirty minutes. When serving, garnish amongst chopped fresh cilantro and/or crumbled queso fresco, if desired.
* Enchiladas are traditionally made amongst corn tortillas, even therefore nosotros prefer ours amongst flour tortillas. Substitute corn tortillas, if desired. Fry corn tortillas, per packet directions, earlier filling.
Note Simple Chicken Enchiladas freeze well. Once assembled, skip the baking step. Wrap tightly inwards foil too freeze. When ready to enjoy, thaw too bake equally directed, adding a few minutes to the baking time.
Enjoy!
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