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Mexican Enchilada Sauce
"I got this recipe from by grmil who was born and raised in Mexico City. The secret to its flavor is the cocoa"
photo by Swirling F.
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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3
ingredients
- 44.37 ml chili powder
- 44.37 ml flour
- 4.92 ml cocoa powder
- 2.46 ml garlic salt
- 4.92 ml oregano
- 709.77 ml water
- 226.79 g can tomato sauce
directions
- Combine all dry ingredients in a small bowl.
- Stirring constantly, slowly add enough of the water to make a thin paste.
- Pour into pan and add rest of water.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens.
- Stir in tomato sauce.
- Use in your favorite enchilada recipe.
- The amounts on the ingredients are very flexible.
- For instance, if I am feeding my kids who do not like"spicy", I will halve the chili powder and double the tomato sauce.
- Experiment to suit your taste, but don't leave out the cocoa.
- For a quick meal, we will soften a corn tortilla in a bit of hot oil, drag it through the sauce, and lay it flat on a plate.
- cover it with grated cheddar cheese, sprinkle with chopped onions and sliced black olives.
- Then cover with another softened sauced tortilla and melt the cheese in the microwave for 1 minute on high.
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Reviews
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This was a good base recipe. I started with the milder version of the recipe (halved the chili powder, doubled the tomato sauce) and made several of the changes suggested by others: doubled the flour, added 1 tsp. of cumin and subbed chicken broth for the water. It was very good. I will probably up the chili powder to 2 Tbs, next time and perhaps double the garlic salt. It made enough for two pans of enchiladas. -
This was AMAZING!!! I used it for wet burritos. I would cut back just a lil bit on the chili powder (for my taste) and I know this is going to sound really strange but I added just a tiny bit of cinnamon to it to balance out the tomato taste. My family loved it; it was the BEST I WILL ONLY USE THIS FROM NOW ON!!!! THANK YOU FOR THE POST -
THE BEST. Period. I have made this multiple times and don't even consider buying the inferior canned version. This tastes just like the sauce they use in Amy's enchiladas. I love that sauce so much that I wrote to the company to tell them to please start bottling and selling it. Well, now I don't need to! This stuff is so amazing!!!! -
So glad i found this recipe! I did make a few changes though, I fallowed the steps accordingly but the sauce was just a little bland to me & i could taste the tomato a little more then i would have liked so i took the advice of another review and added a tbs of cumin which helped but still wasn't great so i added a splash of worcestershire and that seemed to do the trick! Thanks for posting i will defiantly be making this again!! :)
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Awesome! I doubled the cumin and increased the chili powder. I'm going to save this recipe and I'll probably never buy canned enchilada sauce again.
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Tweaks
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I tried this for the first time but I was out of tomato sauce so I used 3/4 can of tomato soup instead and it was really good. I also used less of the chili powder because my husband gets indigestion too easily. Thanks for the great recipe! Jan
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Simpler being better, this is really good as is. Albeit, like most humans, I find myself unable to escape meddling and "leave well enough alone;" thus, I have to say a touch more garlic is indeed an enhancement. I also replaced a couple teaspoons of water with ketchup to afford enough sweet to contrast the aromatics and salt--a bit of brown or white sugar would suffice. Finally, an ever so small--I'm talking teensty-weentsy pinch; in fact "pinch" is too much--just the tiniest nearly unoticable hint of chinese 5 spice actually improves upon this recipe's excellence. Just my humble opinion.
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This was a good base recipe. I started with the milder version of the recipe (halved the chili powder, doubled the tomato sauce) and made several of the changes suggested by others: doubled the flour, added 1 tsp. of cumin and subbed chicken broth for the water. It was very good. I will probably up the chili powder to 2 Tbs, next time and perhaps double the garlic salt. It made enough for two pans of enchiladas.
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The only change I made was to use homemade chicken stock in place of the water. It only made it even more flavorful. I was surprised how easy this is to make.
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Tweaks- I don't even measure anymore! Sometimes more chili powder if its been on the shelf a bit long, more cocoa sometimes, granulated garlic then chicken broth. You really can play with this one. Have fun!
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I am the mother of 6 (only 5 of whom I birthed), and the grandmother of 10. Since my children were born in ’70, ’73, ’80, ’85, and ’90, I have always had kids in different stages of life; so my life has never been boring. I homeschooled the youngest 3 for 15 years(which I really really enjoyed), but my youngest daughter is now going to the University of Hawaii. The next oldest daughter is a theater manager and English teacher in Seattle. Our 4 sons are are all merried, living in West Virginia, Nevada, and Oregan and are the parents of all our grandchildren .I did the Cub Scout leader a long time ago; then the Girl Scout leader and like that a lot better. I also love to garden and to cook. I started cooking in grade school, was fixing dinner every night as my “family chore” by the time I was in junior high, and have been enjoying it ever since. I think when you enjoy cooking, it is contagious. My married sons both share some of the cooking with their wives; my college daughter has enjoyed putting on Sunday Suppers in her dorm. Reading is also a favorite pastime, but my “reading” is done via books on tape since I am legally blind. I love Zarr because it allows me access to so many recipes, as well as the benefit of others’ experiences (thanks to modern technology and a specialty computer software program designed for the blind and visually impaired. My husband (DH is an understated term) and I are involved in our church choir together, enjoy traveling, visiting friends around the country, and taking our grandchildren and Girl Scouts camping.
