By Coleman and Jessica Claiborn
Chicken Enchiladas
33 steps
Cook:1h
Can either make 12 enchiladas, 2 per serving. Or 1 pan of 6 enchiladas, 2 per serving, and 4 left over enchiladas rice bowls.
Updated at: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:44:20 GMT
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Ingredients
6 servings
Veggies
Beans
Chicken
Other
Toppings
Instructions
Veggies
Step 1
Sauté pan on temp 3 on stove. Add butter and garlic to pan, stir.
Step 2
For cutting veggies & chicken, put on rubber gloves. Dicing all veggies really small, but much better if you can use a chopper that gets them tiny
Step 3
Dice onion. Add to pan & stir.
Step 4
Deseed green pepper & dice. Add to pan & stir
Step 5
Cut off tomato skin. Dice. Add to pan & stir.
Step 6
Chop greens of green onions, set aside
Step 7
Deseed poblono pepper & dice. Add to pan & stir
Step 8
Preheat toaster oven, at bake 350
Beans
Step 9
Open can of refried black beans. Scoop out beans and put into a medium microwave-safe bowl.
Step 10
Add a cup of shredded cheese to beans. Stir
Step 11
Cover, and microwave 2 minutes.
Step 12
Stir veggies
Step 13
Carefully stir, the cheese should be completely melted. If it isn't melted, microwave for another minute. Set beans to the side for later.
Chicken
Step 14
Tear chicken into small bite sized pieces. Add to a medium-sized microwaveable bowl.
Step 15
Stir veggies
Step 16
To chicken, add 1 cup sour cream, 10oz can enchilada sauce, 1 cup shredded cheese. Stir
cans green chili enchilada sauce10 ounce
Step 17
Cover and microwave for 2 minutes.
Step 18
Stir veggies
Step 19
Cheese should be completely melted. Stir. Add another minute if the cheese isn't melted. Set aside for later.
Assembly
Step 20
If tortillas are frozen or room temp, microwave until warm.
Step 21
In a line on the counter, put beans bowl, then chicken bowl, then veggies pan. All 3 bowls need a spoon. Then put 8x8 aluminum pan
Step 22
On 1 tortilla
spread a thin layer of beans across the whole tortilla. 1 big scroop of chicken & sauce down middle. 1 tbsp of veggies down middle Put 1 side over middle line, and roll. Put edge-side down in pan to hold closed. Repeat for all 6 tortillas
Step 23
Pour about 1/2 a can of enchilada sauce over top and let it drip down. It should go up about 1/4-1/2 the height of an enchilada.
Step 24
Cover top with layer of shredded cheese
Cook
Step 25
Because everything is warmed, you are mainly warming up the sauce and cheese that went on top. Put in toaster oven, on Bake for 15 minutes, or until cheese is melted.
Step 26
Once cheese is melted, turn onto Broil and cook until cheese starts to brown/get crispy.
Step 27
Remove from over and let sit for a few minutes before serving.
Step 28
Serve and top with sour cream, sliced black olives, and green onions
Left Over Ingredients
Step 29
There are enough ingredients to either make 6 more enchiladas, or 4 enchilada bowls.
Step 30
If making more enchiladas, repeat assembly steps.
Step 31
If making left over bowls, microwave rice package.
Step 32
Layer beans, rice, chicken, veggies. Cover with enchilada sauce. Top with cheese, green onions, and black olives.
Step 33
Let cool before putting in freezer
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