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Chicken Verde Enchiladas

Chicken Verde Enchiladas are a super easy recipe that is deliciously creamy, satisfying, and kid-friendly. This is my go-to recipe to whip up when a friend has a baby or I’m asked to bring a main dish for a potluck. It transports easily and freezes and reheats so well. It’s also a great recipe for using up any leftover cooked chicken you have.

Plated Enchiladas

 

Chicken Verde Enchiladas
Makes 8 enchiladas

Ingredients:

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 small onion, diced
  • 1 cup mushrooms, diced
  • 4 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1 1/2 cups chicken, shredded
  • 3 cups cheddar cheese, divided
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1 (15.8 ounce) can Great Northern beans
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 (10.7 ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
  • 1 cup salsa verde (Find in the salsa aisle or Hispanic foods section of your supermarket)
  • 8 flour tortillas, taco size

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F.

In a medium-high heat skillet, sauté onions and mushrooms in olive oil for several minutes, until softened. Add minced garlic and cook for 1-2 minutes and remove from heat. Set aside.

Grilled onions, mushrooms, garlic

In a medium bowl mix together shredded chicken, 1 cup of the cheddar cheese, sour cream, beans, and pepper. Add the grilled onion and mushroom mixture and mix together. Set aside.

Filling

In another bowl, mix together cream of mushroom soup and salsa verde until creamy.

Salsa Verde

Spread a cup of the mixture onto the bottom of a 9×13 casserole dish.

Casserole

Liberally fill each tortilla with the chicken mixture.

Filled tortilla

Roll up and place in the bottom of the casserole dish. Continue with remaining tortillas and filling mixture.

Enchiladas without sauce

Pour remaining mushroom soup/salsa verde mixture all over the filled tortillas.

Enchiladas without cheese

Top with remaining 2 cups of cheddar cheese.

Cheese on enchiladas

Bake for 30 minutes or until cheese is bubbly and starts to brown.

Finished enchiladas

Let cool for 10 minutes and serve.

Plated Enchiladas

Avgolemono Greek Chicken Soup

This weekend was Charleston’s annual Greek Festival. It’s a great family event, filled with dancing, history lessons, vendors selling crafts and other goods, and delicious Greek delights. As you can imagine, it’s one of my favorite festivals. Sadly, we had a busy weekend so we weren’t able to squeeze it in this year. I was pretty bummed out but cheered myself up by recreating my favorite dish that I typically only get to enjoy once a year at the festival–Avgolemono. It’s basically a Greek Chicken Soup but has this amazing explosion of flavors in each spoonful. It’s unusual because it has an intense lemon flavor and a velvety, almost custard-like texture. May sound a bit odd but that combination of lemon, rice, chicken and veggies is phenomenal and every time I inhale a bowl I promise myself that I’m going to make it. I discovered you can buy it by the can online but I had that promise hanging over my head so I peeled myself off the couch and got into the kitchen. After consulting several recipe and travel websites, and a friend’s Yiayia, I decided to give it a whirl and it turned out beautifully! I didn’t want to spend a whole Sunday in the kitchen so I simplified a lot of the steps (Sorry, Yiayia!) to be more realistic to my busy lifestyle. I also thought it might be an interesting change to try orzo instead of rice. You can stick with rice if you prefer though. I hope you enjoy!

Avgolemono

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Ingredients:

  • 1 T. extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 medium onion, diced
  • 2 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 1/2 cup carrot, minced
  • 1/2 cup celery, minced
  • 8 cups of chicken broth
  • 1/2 cup of fresh lemon juice
  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 1/2 cup of orzo, uncooked
  • 2 T. flour
  • 1 T. butter, melted
  • 4 egg yolks
  • Salt & Pepper
  • Fresh chopped parsley
  1. In a large pot, saute onion, garlic, carrots, and celery until softened. Add chicken broth and lemon juice and bring to a boil.
  2. Reduce heat to medium high and add chicken breasts. Let cook for 15 minutes or until chicken is cooked. Remove chicken to cool and reduce liquid to simmer.
  3. Add orzo
  4. Mix melted butter and flour and add to the pot.
  5. In a large bowl, beat the egg yolks. Gradually add in some of the hot liquid from the pot to the egg mixture, beating vigorously in between so you bring it up to temperature slowly without the eggs scrambling. You’ll end up adding about 2 cups of liquid in the end.
  6. Add the egg yolk mixture to the pot and stir. Season with salt and pepper.
  7. Shred chicken and add back to the pot.
  8. Let simmer for a few minutes until orzo has fully cooked.
  9. Garnish with chopped parsley and enjoy!

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If you really want to go Greek, you can also serve with stuffed grape leaves! Yummy!