Tex Mex
Cheese Enchiladas
Cheese Enchiladas is Tex Mex home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 12 corn tortillas
- 3 cups shredded cheddar
- 1 cup shredded Monterey Jack
- 3 cups red enchilada sauce
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Heat the oven to 375F and spread a thin layer of enchilada sauce in a baking dish.
- Soften the finely chopped onion and garlic in the olive oil with the cumin and salt, about 5 minutes.
- Combine most of the cheddar and Monterey Jack with the softened onion for the filling.
- Warm the corn tortillas, fill each with the cheese mixture, roll, and set seam-side down in the dish.
- Pour the remaining sauce over the top and scatter with the rest of the cheese.
- Bake until bubbling and melted, about 20 minutes, then serve with sour cream.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Cheese Enchiladas carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Chicken Burrito Bowl |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Cheese Enchiladas takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on tortilla and cheese.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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