Cheatin' chicken enchiladas
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This recipe is a fridge-cleaner. It happened because I needed to use up a (frozen) carton of Waitrose green Thai chicken soup and also needed a photograph of enchiladas. The ingredients were those to hand so you could easily meddle with them.
| Cheatin' chicken enchiladas | |
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| Servings: | Serves 4 with an accompaniment such as refried beans |
| Ready in: | 1 hour |
| Prep. time: | 30 minutes |
| Cook time: | 30 minutes |
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If you are not using a spicy soup, then add a few finely chopped chillies (to taste) and either a can of chicken soup or some chicken stock that has been thickened with a tablespoon of flour.
Ingredients
Ingredients
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- 220 g chicken fillets, chopped
- 600g pot of green Thai chicken soup - or 568 lm (1 pint) chicken stock, thickened with flour or cornflour
- 150 g Emmenthal cheese, grated
- 2 sticks of celery, choppped into thin crescents (half moons)
- 1 large onion, peeled and sliced
- 3 tablespoons garlic olive oil or olive oil and 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 8 closed-cup mushrooms, sliced thinly
- 7 sun-dried tomatoes, sliced (in oil, with a little of the oil, if needed)
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground white cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano leaves
- 1 green bell pepper, sliced
- 8 flour or corn tortillas
Mise en place
- Preheat the oven to 180° C (350° F - Gas 4)
Method
- In a wok or frying pan, heat the garlic olive oil gently and fry the celery and onions for about 5 minutes until softened
- Add the mushrooms and sliced tomatoes and a little of the oil if needed
- Fry for a few minutes
- Tip in the chopped chicken fillets and the ground spices and cook until the chicken seems done
- Add 100 g of the Emmenthal cheese and stir until melted and well mixed
- Add the chopped peppers and stir without cooking any further
- Divide the mix into eight portions and roll up in the tortillas
- Place in an oven proof dish
- Pour the soup over the tortillas and sprinkle with the remaining cheese
- Bake for 30 minutes
Serving suggestions
Serve with a Mango salsa and sour cream