Sunday, December 27, 2009

I need an easy and authentic recipe for chicken enchiladas?

Thank youI need an easy and authentic recipe for chicken enchiladas?
Please dont use sauce from a can or use flour tortillas or anything like that becuase it wouldn't be authentic, to make real enchiladas you need fresh ingredients and its not hard. I always make mine green but you can do red too.





Green enchiladas:


tomatillo verde (green if you dont speak spanish) for about 3-4 people i'd say about 1lb-1 1/2 lb of tomatillos. If you are in an area whre you can find the itty bitty tomatillos use those instead but if not the big ones are fine. So peel them wash them and put them in a pan, cover them with water and bring to a boil.





Meanwhile you'll need to cook the chicken. I always use chicken breasts or if i'm in a hurry ill buy a roasted chicken and just use that. If you are cooking it yourself again for 3-4 peole i'd use about one breast per person, add a small piece of onion, a clove or two of garlic and maybe half a teaspoon of chicken bouillon. When the chicken is done shred it (using a fork or your fingers doesn't matter)





When the tomatillos are done blend them with about 1/4 of an onion, 1 serrano pepper( or 2 or 3 or 5 u decide the spice) no seeds, a small bunch of cilantro and add about 1 tbsp of chicken bouillon and salt to taste. If its too thick and some of the boiled water.





Now pour the sauce into a pan and have it simmering for a few mins and turn it off. Warm up your corn tortillas to where they are soft (you dont want them to get a little toasted) some people fry them i dont but its an option. after you warm them place them oneat a time into the sauce and make sure they are covered all the way. Place them on a plate, put the chicken in them roll them and put the on the serving plate. when you are done top them off with more salsa so they arent dry, queso fresco or ranchero, sour cream, finely chopped onions ( or my favorite I slice onions and let them sit with some lemon juice for a while!!) and some extra shredded chicken. Some people like to put theirs in the oven but honestly they only dry out and get soggy.





So there you have your authentic mexican chicken enchiladas straght from a mexican herself!! :)I need an easy and authentic recipe for chicken enchiladas?
Authentic chicken enchiladas are never easy. They always have lots of ingredients and several different complex components (the chicken, the sauce, etc).





You can get pretty good results taking some short cuts, though. FoodNetwork's Tyler Florence's recipe is good. It takes some shortcuts using canned enchilada sauce and a couple types of canned peppers. But even this recipe is ';intermediate';, not easy. Here's the link: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler鈥?/a>
Ok, so first of all you need to buy the ingredients i live in the UK so the brand names my differ if u live in the US:





1. Pack of Discovery plain flour wraps


2. Pack on boneless and skinless chicken fillets


3. Mature cheddar or mozarella


4. Pot of tomato sauce im not sure which one but im sure el paso have a gd enchilada sauce


5. Some onions and peppers


6. El paso spice mix or mixed spices








Ok, so fry the chicken in the pan for bout 10 mins then add the spice mix then cook for another 5 mins, then add the onion and pepper and cook for another 10 mins, then heat the wraps under the grill or 4 a few seconds in th microwave one at a time, then fill the wraps with the chicken mix, then wrap them up and put them into a kinda deep dish, then pour over the tomato sauce and cheese and cook for about 10-20 minutes or until the cheese is nice and brown





Hope they taste gd :)
simmer chicken in tomato sauce and salt, shred the chicken and put in corn tortillas roll and secure with a toothpick, fry in peanut oil until crispy serve with shredded lettuce and sour cream, chopped onions and cheese optional

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