
How To Make Chicken Enchiladas with Green Sauce
These chicken enchiladas are made with slow-cooked chicken, topped with cheese, and dressed with a blend of tomatillos, green chilis, cilantro, and spices.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Chicken Enchiladas:
- 3chicken breast,boneless, skinless, halves
- 14.5ozchicken broth,1 can
- 12corntortillas
- 3cupsMonterrey Jack cheese,shredded, about 12oz
- sour cream,for serving
For Green Enchilada Sauce:
- 1cupchicken broth
- 5medium tomatillos,husked and rinsed
- 7ozgreen chilis,1 can, diced, undrained
- 3tbspyellow onion
- 1green onion
- 1clovegarlic
- 3tbspcilantro
- ½poblano pepper
- ½lime,juiced
- 2tspsugar
- ½tspcumin
- salt and pepper,to taste
Instructions
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Place chicken in a slow cooker, pour chicken broth over chicken. Cover with lid and cook on low for 5 hours (or until chicken is cooked through). Shred and set aside.
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Combine all enchilada sauce ingredients in a blender and blend for 1 to 2 minutes until everything is very well blended.
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Pour sauce into a medium non-reactive saucepan and bring just to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes, until sauce thickens.
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Preheat a non-stick griddle over medium heat. Cook corn tortillas on preheat griddle for about 20 seconds per side or until pliable.
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Immediately stack tortillas on a plate after being warmed and cover with a pan lid to seal in the moisture and keep them from cracking.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
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To prepare enchiladas, place about ¼ cup shredded chicken in the center of the tortilla, cover with 1 tablespoon enchilada sauce followed by 2 tablespoons shredded Monterrey Jack cheese.
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Roll tortilla and place seam-side down in a 13×9-inch baking dish.
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Repeat this step with remaining tortillas, arranging enchiladas side by side in the dish. Cover the top of each rolled enchilada with 2 tablespoons of enchilada sauce. Cover enchiladas with remaining cheese.
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Bake in preheated oven for 14 to 16 minutes until cheese is bubbling and enchiladas are heated through. Serve with sour cream.
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 577.67kcal
- Fat:Â 31.17g
- Saturated Fat:Â 15.53g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.09g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 10.15g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 3.39g
- Carbohydrates:Â 34.49g
- Fiber:Â 4.76g
- Sugar:Â 7.24g
- Protein:Â 41.11g
- Cholesterol:Â 117.68mg
- Sodium:Â 910.42mg
- Calcium:Â 565.71mg
- Potassium:Â 692.50mg
- Iron:Â 2.89mg
- Vitamin A: 179.55µg
- Vitamin C:Â 95.60mg
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