Enchilada with chicken and cheese

Amazing Mexican dish - simple and delicious! Enchilada with chicken and cheese will fall in love with you from the first sample. Her taste is bright and memorable, besides, she looks beautiful. You can safely cook for the holidays to surprise and delight guests.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 36 % 12 g
Fats 33 % 11 g
Carbohydrates 30 % 10 g
180 kcal
GI: 20 / 0 / 80

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make an enchilada with chicken and cheese? To begin, take care of the sauce. Peel the onion and garlic. Chop them finely. Remove the chili seeds and finely chop. We will need the greens in the photo for the filling.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Heat olive oil in a frying pan. Add the chopped vegetables and fry them over medium heat, stirring constantly, for about five minutes. Remove the tomatoes in their own juice from the jar and chop them, but not too finely.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Add the sliced tomatoes to the roast. Put sugar, salt, ground black pepper here. Stir everything and simmer, stirring, for up to 7 minutes. That's it, the sauce is ready.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Separately, in a frying pan heated over high heat with olive oil, fry the minced chicken for up to 15 minutes, stirring. It is necessary that all the liquid evaporates. The minced meat will begin to blush. Add cumin, salt, oregano, coriander, ground hot pepper. Fry for 5 minutes until browned.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Grate large cheese, chop finely fresh cilantro.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Turn on the oven for 180C. Pour half of the sauce into the baking dish. Separately warm up the tortillas in the microwave (just a little bit, just to make them more flexible). Put 2-3 tablespoons on each tortilla.l. minced meat, sprinkle more grated cheese and chopped coriander on top.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Roll each tortilla into a tube and put it on top of the sauce in a baking dish with seams down, tightly to each other.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Add the second part of the sauce on top and cover with grated cheese and chopped cilantro. Bake for 20 minutes in the oven until the cheese melts (it will boil). Calculate the time according to your oven.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    That's it, the enchiladas are ready. The dish is spicy, so it is better to serve it with sour cream sauce.

Enchiladas are one of the favorite dishes in Mexico. It is prepared very often. These are tortilla cakes in a roll with stuffing, baked with sauce. The dish is spicy. The filling can be very different: vegetable, meat, mushroom, chicken.

To avoid irritating the mucous membrane of the eyes when slicing onions, rinse the onion and knife with cold water. The cutting board will not absorb the unpleasant onion smell if you rub it with a piece of lemon before slicing.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use the useful information about the features of ovens !

Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper). 

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Dried ground cilantro - 216   kcal/100g
  • Coriander - 25   kcal/100g
  • Cilantro, coriander - 25   kcal/100g
  • Dried oregano - 306   kcal/100g
  • Oregano - 306   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Zira - 112   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Ground hot pepper - 21   kcal/100g
  • Chili pepper - 40   kcal/100g
  • Mozzarella - 280   kcal/100g
  • Ground coriander - 25   kcal/100g
  • Unleavened flatbread - 263   kcal/100g
  • Rye flatbread - 375   kcal/100g
  • Flatbread - 263   kcal/100g
  • Minced chicken - 143   kcal/100g

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