Simple Chicken Enchiladas alongside their chicken & cheese filling seasoned but for exactly the correct flavor "oomph" in addition to moistness, these are our family-favorite enchiladas. Make a pan for tonight, in addition to i to freeze for later!
Here at house, we've of late had a 5-year-old niggling daughter bring together our family. She is a sweet, loving, adventurous, full-spirited niggling daughter whom nosotros adore ... in addition to who totally runs our pa-tooties off! She is thence total of energy, in addition to I must acknowledge that my hubby in addition to I are experiencing whole novel levels of tiredness equally nosotros do our real best to operate along upward alongside her. We'll lead handgrip of upward on slumber inward fifteen years or so, right?
I honey her adventurous spirit, in addition to am thrilled to tell that she's non alone adventurous inward life ...but alongside food, too! 'Cause seriously ... I don't know what I would do alongside a picky eater. No joke. A picky eater would last really tough on me. But Little Miss H. is willing to movement exactly close anything, in addition to thence far, we've alone constitute close 2 things she doesn't like.
But fifty-fifty alongside her nutrient adventurousness, I soundless wonder sometimes if she'll similar it when I brand some things. Like alongside these uncomplicated Chicken Enchiladas ...
And so, I served upward this dish of enchiladas alongside trepidation the other nighttime for dinner. Would Little Miss H. similar them? Or, would she plough upward her olfactory organ to them inward disgust? Would I last whipping out my back-up innovation for her dinner? ... {yes, I had laid aside some patently chicken inward the refrigerator from making the filling ... just inward case}. Or, was she going to dig into these uncomplicated Chicken Enchiladas alongside 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 do a homemade enchilada sauce gustatory modality exam ... pitting my homemade enchilada sauce against a practiced ol' tin of the prepared materials ...
So I wasn't serving upward exactly i pan of uncomplicated Chicken Enchiladas for dinner ... I was serving upward 2 pans! One alongside homemade sauce, in addition to i alongside store-bought. And do y'all know what?
Little Miss H. fifty-fifty participated inward the taste-test, tasting a fighting from each pan! She took her taste-testing purpose real seriously, real decidedly delivering upward her verdict homemade enchilada sauce was the winner, for sure. Little Miss H. approved.
For our uncomplicated Chicken Enchiladas, I whip upward a pretty basic chicken filling seasoned but alongside sauteed onion, diced light-green chilies, in addition to tabular array salt in addition to pepper. I similar the flavor the onion in addition to light-green chilies add together ... it's exactly plenty "extra oomph" for the chicken without existence besides much going on. Some chicken enchiladas are exactly chicken ... that's it ... inward the filling, in addition to I must acknowledge I'm non a fan. I need a little bit more than that.
I also similar to add together a fighting of cheese alongside the chicken when I create total my Chicken Enchiladas for added flavor in addition to moistness within ...
I honor that filling the enchiladas alongside chicken solitary tin last a tad fighting dry, in addition to I don't similar dry-inside enchiladas.
Once I've filled in addition to rolled all my enchiladas, I smother them generously alongside enchilada sauce ...
{canned is fine, though homemade enchilada sauce is fifty-fifty improve in addition to sooooo tardily to make}
... in addition to and thence smother generously alongside cheese ...
Once baked, you've got a bubbly pan of uncomplicated Chicken Enchiladas to savour ... seasoned but to give the chicken filling exactly the correct fighting of "oomph," in addition to ... if y'all lead to lead keep the "challenge," smothered inward 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 usage a fully-cooked rotisserie chicken.}
- 2 T. butter
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 (4 oz.) can diced light-green 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 inward a saute pan over medium heat. Add onion in addition to create until softened, close v minutes. Add light-green chilies, shredded chicken, salt, in addition to pepper; stir until good combined. Remove from heat.
- Spread close 1 tablespoon enchilada sauce on i side of each tortilla. Place close 3/4 loving cup of chicken filling downwardly the centre of each tortilla. Top alongside close iii tablespoons to 1/4 loving cup shredded cheddar cheese. Roll upward each enchilada into a cigar shape. Place seam-side-down inward a 9x13-inch baking dish.
- Pour remaining enchilada sauce evenly over the plough over of the enchiladas. Top alongside remaining shredded cheese.
- Bake uncovered at 350 degrees until heated through in addition to cheese is melted, close 25 to thirty minutes. When serving, garnish alongside chopped fresh cilantro and/or crumbled queso fresco, if desired.
* Enchiladas are traditionally made alongside corn tortillas, withal nosotros prefer ours alongside 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 inward foil in addition to freeze. When ready to enjoy, thaw in addition to bake equally directed, adding a few minutes to the baking time.
Enjoy!
at no additional toll to you.