Cheatin' chicken enchiladas

Sliced peppers added, cooked and ready to roll

Enchiladas with Waitrose green Thai soup

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

1. In a wok or frying pan, heat the garlic olive oil gently and fry the celery and onions for about 5 minutes until softened
2. Add the mushrooms and sliced tomatoes and a little of the oil if needed
3. Fry for a few minutes
4. Tip in the chopped chicken fillets and the ground spices and cook until the chicken seems done
5. Add 100 g of the Emmenthal cheese and stir until melted and well mixed
6. Add the chopped peppers and stir without cooking any further
7. Divide the mix into eight portions and roll up in the tortillas
8. Place in an oven proof dish
9. Pour the soup over the tortillas and sprinkle with the remaining cheese
10. 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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