Tomato Sauced Enchiladas With Sour Cream and Aged Cheese
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- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 -2 jalapeno chile, stemmed and cut into quarters
- 1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes with juice, juice reserved (preferably fire-roasted)
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons olive oil, plus some to coat the tortillas
- 2 cups chicken or 2 cups vegetable broth
- 12 (6 inch) corn tortillas
- salt
- 1 1⁄2 cups coarsely shredded cooked chicken (optional beef or pork)
- 1⁄4 cup Mexican crema, sour cream or 1/4 cup creme fraiche
- 1 tablespoon whole milk
- 1⁄2 medium white onion, thinly sliced
- 1⁄2 cup chopped cilantro or 1/2 cup flat leaf parsley
- 1⁄4 cup queso anejo, Romano or 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Drop garlic and chiles, a piece at a time, into running food processor or blender, letting one piece get finely chopped before adding another one.
- Drain tomatoes and reserve juice.
- Add tomatoes to food processor or blender and process until smooth.
- Heat oil in a medium (3-4 quart) saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Add the tomato puree and cook, stirring almost constantly, until mixture has reduced to the consistancy of thick tomato sauce, about 7 minutes.
- Add broth and reserved juice from tomatoes.
- Simmer over medium-low heat 10 minutes, to combine flavors.
- Lay out tortillas on a baking sheet and brush lightly on both sides with oil, stack them in pairs.
- Slide tortillas into preheated oven and bake just long enough to make them pliable, about 3 minutes.
- Remove from oven and stack tortillas in a single pile; cover with a kitchen towel to keep warm.
- Taste and season the sauce with salt usually about 1 teaspoons.
- Holding a warm tortilla by one side, carefully dip most of it into the hot sauce, then lay it on a deep dinner plate (preferably warmed), folding in quarters. Work quickly to avoid tears in the tortillas.
- Do the same with 2 more tortillas, slightly overlapping them.
- Ladle a generous 1/4 cup sauce over the tortillas allowing it to pool over and around them.
- If using, scatter the meat on top.
- Mix Mexican crema, sour cream or creme fraiche with the whole milk and drizzle over.
- Sprinkle with onion, cilantro or parsley and cheese.
- Prepare remaining tortillas in the same way on three more plates.
- Serve immediately.
- Refrigerate any leftover sauce.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
AZPARZYCH
Peoria, 41
<p><span><strong>I am a stay at home mom to two wonderful boys; Joshua (8years), Kaiden (5 years), and baby GIRL, Madalynn (19 months)! I also have two fur babies (cats); Kobee, AJ; we had to put our youngest cat Sly down Jan 2014. :(. I am also married to my best friend, Jeff and have been since April 2005. I love cooking, hate cleaning and will do whatever I can to get out of it! I love grilling and baking. I do most of the grilling at my house, and bake for almost a week straight at Christmas time! I can make or will attempt just about anything, though I rarely make brownies, my husband's are the best! Homemade breads are not my friend, so I am always working on bread baking.</strong></span></p>
<p><span><strong>As for recipe ideas (besides zaar) Cooking Light Cookbooks are my favorites. I love to make new meals and try new things; it is hard though because my husband is picky when it comes to veggies (and hates seafood); If it were up to him we would have baked-bread crumb chicken and white rice at least one meal a day! Over the past couple years with zaar, I have found tons of new recipes my family normally wouldn’t eat but have been happily surprised with new favorites.</strong></span></p>
<p><span><strong>I love to join in all of the tag games; I haven't been as present as I would like, but as soon as my Jeff is back from working in Ohio I will be back in full tagging mode! </strong></span></p>
<p><span><strong>Cooking is my hobby and passion, I always like to host the family get togethers and volunteer for the potluck dishes. Most of all though are my kids; being home all day with them is fun and challenging, but I wouldn’t trade it for any salary!!</strong></span></p>