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First off Mexican food ROCKS! So much flavor plus many of the recipes are nice on the wallet and simple to make. Today’s recipe is PERFECT to make in large amounts and freeze.
What You Need
10 soft taco shells
2 cups cooked, shredded chicken
2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
3 Tbsp. butter
2 Tbsp. Corn Starch
2 cups chicken broth
1 Clove of Minced Garlic
1/2 Teaspoon of Salt and Pepper
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon Onion Powder
1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
1 teaspoon Cumin
1 Teaspoon of lime juice
1 Finely Chopped Jalapenos Seeded
What To Do
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9×13 pan.
In a medium size bowl mix – chicken, 1 cup of cheese, garlic – roll mixture into tortillas and place into pan.
In a sauce pan – melt the butter and stir in corn starch and cook for one minute. Add broth and whisk until smooth. Keep over heat until it bubbles and becomes thick. Stir in sour cream, chopped Jalapenos, cumin, onion powder, garlic powder, lime, salt and pepper. Do not let it boil.
Pour mixture over enchiladas and top with the last cup of cheese.
Bake for 25 min – You will want to make sure the cheese has browned.
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| The Best Chicken Enchiladas |
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Recipe type: Entree
Prep time: 5 mins
Cook time: 35 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 10
Simply the Best Enchiladas
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked, shredded chicken
- 2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- 3 Tbsp. butter
- 2 Tbsp. Corn Starch
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 Clove of Minced Garlic
- 1/2 Teaspoon of Salt and Pepper
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon Onion Powder
- 1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 1 teaspoon Cumin
- 1 Finely Chopped Jalapenos seeded
- 1 Teaspoon of lime juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9×13 pan.
- In a medium size bowl mix – chicken, 1 cup of cheese, garlic – roll mixture into tortillas and place into pan.
- In a sauce pan – melt the butter and stir in corn starch and cook for one minute. Add broth and whisk until smooth. Keep over heat until it bubbles and becomes thick. Stir in sour cream, chopped Jalapenos, lime, cumin, onion powder, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Do not let it boil.
- Pour mixture over enchiladas and top with the last cup of cheese.
- Bake for 25 min – You will want to make sure the cheese has browned.
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Where can I access your other recipes. They are all awesome!
what a coincidence that you posted this today!! I pulled out chicken and was needing something to make for dinner with it tonight! Thanks! This looks really easy and yummy!
Do you think it would be just as good with hamburger meat in place of the chicken……I have excess Hamburger Meat from a sale????
I do not see way not — just make sure after you cook the meat to drain it .
Looks great, can’t wait to try it!
Sound great! What size tortillas?
8 inch
Thanks! And I totally missed the lime! lol~I saw it in the pic, but not in the directions…
Trying the recipe tonight! Thanks! What kind of tortillas? Corn or Flour? And what is the lime for?
Flour works best – the lime is for flavoring
What do you use the lime for? When you are making the chicken? Or once it is out of the oven?
It says in the directions
Oops! WOW. I made this tonight, and COMPLETELY missed it! Sorry! It got 4 thumbs up from my family without the lime! Thanks for sharing!
Loved the recipe. I missed the lime too somehow. And I changed out jalapeno for green chilis!
shared it on my Facebook! Thanks! I was beginning to think pinned recipes were hopeless!
I made this tonight, everyone loved it. I doubled the filing, will be making this again and again.
Is ‘soft taco shells’ a backwards way of saying ‘corn tortillas’? I am confused. :-/
I used flour tortillas but you can use corn
Haha, I’ve learned through my marriage that when people say soft taco shells, they mean flour tortillas. It used to bug the crap out of me that people just don’t say tortillas, but I see it’s pretty common and I’m getting over it
Where I’m from, a lot of people actually call them taco bread. That one still bugs me lol
my husband does not like sour cream….is there something else that I could use to sub the sour cream?
I don’t like sour cream either! But these were yummy!
I agree… My husband is not crazy about Sour Cream but he loves this recipe…. Sometimes it is best just to go with it and see
I used Greek yogurt instead of sour cream. Taste and texture are almost identical! And the yogurt is much better for you
Made these tonight with my son for the first time. So good!!
I was going to make this. So, was it really good? Thanks!!!
I live in Warsaw, Poland and made these last night…they were great! I even used all Polish ingredients! Enjoyed something so tasty and easy!
I Have made these twice in 2 weeks(at my husband and kids request) and doubled the recipe both times. They are delicious!! They taste even better left over, not that we have much left over. My family don’t even request sides. They love them just by themselves.
I made these for Dinner last night and they were awesome! This is my new go to enchilada recipe from now on! I used canned green chilis instead of the jalapeno, and stuffed it with shredded cheddar instead of monterey jack, but put monterey jack jalapeno slices, ( I didn’t have enough monterey jackfor both filling and to top the enchiladas.), on top only because it was all I had on hand and it still came out fanrtastic! Thank you Diva!
How do you cook the chicken to get it to shred? Sorry new to the kitchen & do well w/instructions lol
I usually boil chicken for 45 minutes. Let is cool then shred the chicken with my hands.
Thank you
Amazing!!!! I have made this twice and am typing this review as my house is filling with the amazing smell of chicken enchiladas! I boiled my chicken the first time but used the pre-cooked grilled (Tyson) chicken strips for convenience. I don’t see why you couldn’t use rotisserie chicken either. I made my filling earlier today, assembled the tortillas (fresh homemade flour from my local grocery store…totally makes a difference) and covered the pan with plastic wrap. Once we were ready to eat, made the sauce and baked it. Very very easy and cost effective meal to make…and delicious too!!
Sounds sooo delicious! Plan on making these soon =)
these are really great. We had them for dinner last night. I used a rotisserie chicken and it made it alot easier on me. I will be making again. I did broil them for about 2-3 minutes on low to get the cheese brown and topped with lettuce diced tomato and a little sour cream. YUMMY! Thanks Diva.
Yay! I am glad you liked them
I would not freeze the sauce with them. I tried it before and I do not think it tasted the best. I use foil – I know there are other methods
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