Mexican
Chicken Enchiladas
Chicken Enchiladas is Mexican 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 cooked chicken breasts
- 3 cups gluten-free red enchilada sauce
- 3 cups shredded cheddar and Monterey Jack
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 2 tbsp neutral oil
How to cook it
- Heat the oven to 375F.
- Cook the onion and garlic in the oil with the cumin until soft, about 5 minutes, then toss with the shredded chicken and 1 cup of the enchilada sauce.
- Spread 1/2 cup sauce in a baking dish.
- Fill each tortilla with the chicken mixture and a little cheese, roll up, and place seam-side down in the dish.
- Pour the remaining sauce over the top and cover with the rest of the cheese.
- Bake until bubbling and the cheese melts, about 25 minutes, then top with sour cream and cilantro.
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. Chicken 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 | Arroz con Pollo |
| 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, Dairy, and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Chicken Enchiladas takes about 60 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 chicken, tortilla, cheese, and tomato.
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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