| Cheatin' chicken enchiladas | |
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| Servings: | Serves 4 with an accompaniment such as refried beans |
| Calories per serving: | 848 |
| Ready in: | 1 hour |
| Prep. time: | 30 minutes |
| Cook time: | 30 minutes |
| Difficulty: | 
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| Recipe author: | JuliaBalbilla |
| First published: | 27th October 2012 |
This recipe is a great way of using up leftovers. It came about 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.
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
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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, chopped 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
See also
- Tortillas: - Encyclopaedic page describing all variants of tortillas
- South American tortilla recipes - :
- Corn tortilla recipe - make them from scratch with masa harina
- Corn tortillas - a Thermomix recipe
- Wheat flour tortilla recipe
- Gorditas - Thick Mexican tortillas
- Quick tortillas - a recipe idea for using left over tortillas
- Burrito (or taco de harina) explained
- Minced beef burritos - A burrito recipe
- Enchiladas - a recipe and an explanation
- Chicken enchiladas
- Cheatin' chicken enchiladas a quick version of the above
- Quick beef enchiladas
- Honduran Enchiladas, This is a typical dish from Honduras
- enfrijoladas, a similar dish to enchiladas
- Pulled pork enchiladas - a nice pork recipe made using meat from Jamie Oliver's Overnight Slow Roast Pork Joint
- Homemade tortilla chips - Make superb tortilla chips from soft corn tortillas - better than anything you could buy!
- Cheese nachos - A cheese nacho recipe
- Frito pie - If you like Tex-Mex, you'll love this
- Easy frito pie - Make Frito pie-on the hoof!
- Minced beef for tacos - A Mexican spicy beef taco filling recipe
- Memphis BBQ pulled duck tacos - A duck variation on the same theme
- Sincronizada recipe - A Mexican speciality that can alos be found all over South America
- Quesadillas - A selection of quesadilla recipes
- Dobladas - Stuffed tortillas from Guatemala
- Enfrijoladas recipe - tortillas stuffed with re-fried beans and spices
- Chilaquiles - a fabulous recipe from two Mexican visitors
- Tostadas de guacamole y crema - A famous Diana Kennedy recipe
- Cheese pupusas - a stuffed tortilla from El Salvador
- Pupusa de Chicharron - similar to pupusas, again from El Salvador
- Spicy lamb tortillas - A recipe idea taken from crispy duck pancakes
- Duck fajitas - and a similar version, with crispy duck
- Gressingham Memphis Barbecue Pulled Duck - Commercially available pre-prepared pulled duck
- Spanish tortilla recipes:
- Capricorn, pea and mint tortilla - A Spanish-style tortilla with goats' cheese
- Potato and goats' cheese tortilla - Another Spanish-type with goats' cheese
- Tortilla Española - A Spanish tortilla
- Tortilla capuchina - another Spanish tortilla
- Tortilla 'batatas harras' - A spicy Spanish tortilla
- Beef Skirt Steak Fajitas - Fajitas, using Taste Sensation spice mix
- Squash, halloumi and chilli omelette - Spicy, with squash & Greek cheese
- Omelettes - Many omelette recipes
- Misc. tortilla recipes:
- Potatoes as a garnish or for tortillas (TM) - A Thermomix recipe
- Baked squash filled with melted Camembert cheese - Where taco shells are used to dish up the melted cheese
- Ingredients:
- Taco shells
- Tex-Mex seasoning - Home-made Old India Taco Seasoning recipe
- Old India Taco Seasoning - The commercial variety is very good too
- Tortilla chips - Snacks/crisps.
- Taste Sensation Cajun Seasoning
- Taste Sensation fajita seasoning
- Taste Sensation harissa seasoning
- Taste Sensation Italian seasoning
- Taste Sensation Jalapeno and Lime Seasoning
- Taste Sensation Mexican seasoning
- Taste Sensation piri piri seasoning
- Tools:
- Tortilla press - The device and also a great tip for making them without a press!
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