The World's Easiest Basic Enchilada Sauce

Submitted by Pot Scrubber

"With only two pre-purchased products this makes a wonderful sauce. I have made sauces from scratch that weren't as good as this. Pour over purchased frozen enchiladas or burritos (or your own homemade)top with cheese and bake.Instant dinner."

 

• Ready In: 1min
• Ingredients: 2
• Yields: 4 cups

ingredients

• 1 (15 ounce) can Hormel chili without beans (NO OTHER BRAND)
• 1 (16 ounce) jar mild Pace Picante Sauce (NO OTHER BRAND, and don't confuse Pace salsa with Pace picante)

directions

1. Combine the two.
2. You're finished!
3. Pour over purchased frozen enchiladas or burritos (or your own homemade)and top with cheese.
4. Bake at 350 til heated through.
5. Tell everyone at the table you have spent years perfecting this complicated sauce.
6. If your kids don't like "those icky green pepper things and onions" simply puree the Pace picante in a blender then add to the Hormel chili. They will never know and it also makes for a smoother texture. Additionally, I have used Hormel 99% Fat Free Turkey Chili with excellent results. Then- your enchilada sauce is almost totally fat free. Can't beat that!

Reviews

[Robyn]

This was very good and simple to make obviously. I made homemade enchiladas out of some left over carnitas and cheese and decided to try this and we were not disappointed. It is a fabulous dip! I kept sampling with some tortilla chips while I was waiting for the rice to finish cooking. I would make this again.

 

[katietrueland]

Great Enchilada Sauce! Excellent with Beef,Cheese,Chicken, and Bean Home made Enchiladas! Couldn't be easier or tastier! Thanks for sharing! Katie

 

[AnotherPrimate]

Looked too easy to be true. It's definitely easy. But it tastes too much like, grin, chili.

 

[Muffin Goddess]

Made this today to top some chicken and cheese enchiladas -- definitely waaay easier to make than my usual enchilada sauce recipe (no risk of any lard bursting into flames here, LOL, don't ask). Really good flavor, too, which I was a bit skeptical of when I saw that one of the ingredients was canned chili. Okay, I have to admit, I went with the medium picante sauce instead of the mild (extra spice was a must if I had any hope of getting DH to eat the finished enchiladas). Yeah, I know, I'm not good at following directions, and sometimes I run with scissors, too. LOL Thanks for posting this delicious and precious time-saving recipe :)! Made for ZWT5 Zingo

 

[FolkDiva]

I prepared this sauce to top recipe #222927 and it worked out incredibly well. Nice flavor (truly better than any canned enchilada sauce I've tried) and you certainly couldn't ask for easier. I followed the VERY EMPHATIC instructions ever so closely....which I must say was difficult for me, as 1) I NEVER go with 'mild' anything when there is a 'hot' choice to be had and 2) I'm a serial label reader and, unless I'm not paying attention, always pass on products with MSG or high fructose corn syrup (the Hormel Chili contains MSG). But due to the INSTRUCTIONS I felt committed to following this one to the 'T'!! So...if I make it again, I'm going to have to buck the system and go with the Hot Pace Picante and another brand of canned chili without the 'flavor enhancer'! Thank you for posting. I agree with NELady...pretty darned ingenius! Made for the Zingo round of ZWT5.