Z'tejas Green Chile Barbacoa Enchiladas

Submitted by Karen in CT

"from Fox 13 recipe website"

 

• Ready In: 4hrs 15mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• Green Chile Barbacoa

• 4 -6 lbs beef chuck, cut 3-inch x 3-inch
• 1⁄2 cup cilantro
• 2 tablespoons kosher salt
• 1⁄3 cup garlic, chopped
• 2 ounces ancho chilies, stems removed
• 3 cups yellow onions, quartered
• 3 tablespoons green chili powder

• After cooled down

• diced green chilis

• Assembling Green Chile Barbacoa Enchiladas (4 ounces Barbacoa plus)

• 2 corn tortillas
• 2 ounces monterey jack cheese, shredded
• 3 ounces green chili sauce
• 2 ounces Cotija cheese, crumbled
• 1 ounce iceberg lettuce, shredded
• sour cream
• pickled green chilies

directions

1. Place all ingredients in a stainless bowl and mix well. Transfer to a roasting pan and top with a tight lid.
2. Cook for 3 1/2 to 4 hours in a 325 degree oven.
3. Let cool and shred using 2 forks.
4. Strain juice that the meat was cooked in skim off fat.
5. Add about 1 1/2 cups to shredded meat.
6. Mix in green chilies as well.

7. Assembling Green Chile Barbacoa Enchiladas:

8. Fry tortillas to soften; place on oval plate.
9. Put barbacoa in center.
10. Put 1 oz. of jack cheese on each tortilla with 2 oz. of barbacoa and 1/2 oz. of green chile sauce.
11. Roll tortillas and leave in center of plate.
12. Ladle 2 oz. green chile sauce on top of enchiladas and sprinkle beans and enchiladas with cotija cheese.
13. Put under broiler to melt cheese; when cheese melts top enchiladas with iceberg, dollop of sour cream and put pickled chiles in center.