Enchiladas - Red or White Sauce.
You can have Enchiladas - Red or White Sauce using 22 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Enchiladas - Red or White Sauce
- 🢂 of TIP: Leftover chicken works great!.
- 🢂 5 of Chicken breasts and/or thighs..
- 🢂 15-18 of corn tortillas.
- 🢂 1 cup of diced green onion.
- 🢂 1/2 of shredded cheddar cheese.
- 🢂 1 tbsp of Olive oil.
- 🢂 1 tbsp of taco seasoning.
- 🢂 of Creamy White Sauce.
- 🢂 3 tbsp of butter.
- 🢂 1 tsp of flour.
- 🢂 1 1/2 cup of Chicken broth.
- 🢂 2 cups of milk.
- 🢂 2 tsp of onion powder.
- 🢂 1 1/2 tsp of garlic salt or to taste.
- 🢂 1 1/2 tsp of cumin.
- 🢂 1 tsp of chili powder.
- 🢂 1 1/2 cup of shredded pepper jack cheese.
- 🢂 1 large of or 2 small tomatoes, diced and set aside.
- 🢂 1 of jalepeno, diced small and set aside.
- 🢂 2/3 cup of bell pepper diced and set aside.
- 🢂 2/3 cup of Red onion diced and set aside.
- 🢂 1 cup of Sour cream.
step by step Enchiladas - Red or White Sauce
- Preheat oven to 350. Heat olive oil in skillet on med-high. Season chicken in hot pan. Sear chicken to brown then cover and turn down heat to low-med turning periodically..
- Meanwhile in a measuring cup wisk together the flour and half of the milk, this prevents lumps. In a large saucepan melt better and pour in milk mixture and stir frequently on low-med heat..
- Once it thickens continue to wisk and add chicken broth, the seasonings and remaining milk..
- Continue to stir periodically for 10 min. It will begin to simmer..
- When chicken is done, place on a cookie sheet or platter to cool. When cooled shred the chicken.
- Stir in the pepper jack cheese and diced vegetables. Cook on low stirring periodically should be thickened some again..
- Stir in sour cream. Taste for any seasoning adjustments you want to make. If sauce is not thickened wisk together a bit more flour in a small amount of milk and add to sauce. Stir on med. Heat and it will thicken. You don't want it too thick, it will also thicken some in the oven..
- In a glass 9x11 pan place a little sauce in the bottom. Using tongs place tortilla in the sauce covering it completely until softened to roll up..
- Drain sauce from tortilla then place the tortilla in the pan, put some shredded chicken and cheddar cheese on tortilla and roll up till snug..
- Repeat for all the tortillas, placing them close together..
- Cover all the tortillas with the remaining sauce and top with the remaining cheddar cheese and green onions. Bake for 20 minutes..
- If tortillas are not mostly covered in sauce cover the pan while baking. ENJOY!.