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Chicken Verde Enchiladas

Jun17

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

Easy Cheesy Steak Taquitos

May22

My boyfriend, Tom, has an unequaled love for taquitos. If he had to eat one meal for the rest of his life, taquitos would happily be on his menu. Unfortunately, the frozen variety are fried and filled with preservatives and all sorts of junk. While frozen are super quick and easy, homemade are actually almost as quick and easy but so much better for you and even better tasting. This is also a super kid-friendly meal so you can get your little helpers in the kitchen. My favorite thing about this meal is that you can use up leftovers to make them by substituting out the meat and veggies for practically anything you have that you need to use up.

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Makes 12 taquitos

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 small onion
  • 6 ounces steak, chopped into bite-size pieces
    • I used strip but you can use also use  flat iron, top sirloin, London broil, etc,
  • 1/2 cup of corn
  • 1 cup of Mexican blend cheese
  • 1/4 cup chopped green onion
  • 1/2 cup salsa
  • 2 tablespoons taco seasoning
  • 12 (6-inch) flour or corn tortillas
  • 12 toothpicks
  • Sour cream, guacamole, or salsa for dipping, optional

Directions

Preheat oven to 375°F. Spray a large baking sheet with cooking spray.

In a medium sauté pan, add olive oil and cook onion for 1-2 minutes on medium high heat. Add chopped steak and cook until no longer pink in the center. Remove from heat and allow to cool while you work on the rest of the filling.

Grilled steak and onions

In a small bowl, mix corn, cheese, green onion, salsa, and taco seasoning  until well blended.

Filling mixture, without steak and onions

Mix in the cooled onion and steak mixture.

Filling mixture

To ensure your tortillas are nice and pliable for rolling, wrap the tortillas in a couple damp paper towels and microwave on a plate for 30-45 seconds. This is also a great tip for taco and fajita night!

Working on a cutting board, lay out a tortilla and spread 3 heaping tablespoons of filling all over the tortilla.

Tortilla with filling

Roll up tightly, from bottom to top and fasten the seams with a toothpick. Continue rolling up the rest of the tortillas and then place on the baking sheet, about an inch apart.

Spray the tops of the taquitos with olive oil cooking spray and bake for 15 minutes, or until brown and nice and crispy.

Remove from baking sheet and cool for 5 minutes.

Don’t forget to remove the toothpicks before serving!
Plated Steak Taquitos

I serve with a side of Spanish Rice and little bowls of sour cream, salsa, or guacamole so guests can pick their favorite condiment. This will definitely be a huge hit and is also a great recipe idea for game day nibbles.