Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Recipe: Chicken enchiladas with green chili sour cream sauce

Check out the ORIGINAL and DELICIOUS recipe on Joyful Momma's Kitchen Blog!




INGREDIENTS: 

10 soft taco shells
2 cups cooked, shredded chicken (I bought a rotisserie chicken from Safeway and shredded only the white meat.. which made exactly two cups!)

1 cup shredded Pepper Jack cheese
1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1 stick of unsalted butter

1 stick of garlic herb butter
3 1/2 Tbsp. flour
2 cups chicken broth
1 cup sour cream
1 (4 oz) can diced green chillies (you can get hot OR mild chilies) 

2 ripe, medium avocados


INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x13 pan
2. Mix chicken and 1 cup mixed cheese. Roll up in tortillas and place in pan.
3. In a sauce pan, melt butter, stir in flour and cook 1 minute. Add broth and whisk until smooth. Heat over medium heat until thick and bubbly.
4. Stir in sour cream and chilies. Do not bring to boil, you don't want curdled sour cream.
5. Pour over enchiladas and top with remaining cheese.
6. Bake 22 min and then under high broil for 3 min to brown the cheese. 

7. Cut avocado into thin slices to place on top of finished enchiladas

JOYFUL MOMMA'S ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS: 


1. If you would like, you can substitute Greek yogurt for the sour cream in the recipe.  It is a 1 for 1 substitute.
2. If you cook your chicken first (rather than using a rotisserie chicken), you may wan to add some spices to give it extra flavor.  I like the chicken to have good flavor.  I tend to cook my chicken in the crock pot with some ground cumin, garlic powder, and ground black pepper.
3. You can make this ahead and keep it in the fridge up to 24 hours.  Just put it in the oven and increase the time a bit.  You will want to make sure they are heated through.
4. This sauce does not freeze well.  Then enchiladas themselves freeze really well.  I freeze a few pans of them double wrapped in foil and then I just make the sauce the day of.  Thaw them first, add the sauce, cook according to original instructions.

2 comments:

  1. Seriously... about the most delicious thing I have ever made in my life. You should check out Joyful Momma's blog... ALL her recipes are SOOO incredible! I just modify them a bit and post my own pics :)

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