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chicken enchilada casserole

⏱️ 45 minutes
🥘 12 ingredients
📝 22 steps
🏷️ 60-minutes-or-less time-to-make course main-ingredient cuisine +14 more

🍽️ Nutrition Facts

Calories 749
Fat 58% DV
Saturated Fat 95% DV
Carbohydrates 22% DV
Sugar 25% DV
Protein 64% DV
Sodium 67% DV
* Percent Daily Values (DV)

🥘 Ingredients

  • onion
  • green pepper
  • butter
  • cooked chicken
  • green chili peppers
  • flour
  • ground coriander
  • salt
  • chicken broth
  • sour cream
  • monterey jack cheese
  • flour tortillas

📝 Instructions

  1. 1 in a large saucepan cook onion and green pepper in the 2 tablespoons of butter until tender
  2. 2 combine onion mixture in a bowl with chopped chicken and green chili peppers
  3. 3 set aside
  4. 4 for sauce , in the same pan melt 3 tablespoons butter
  5. 5 stir in flour , coriander and salt
  6. 6 stir in chicken broth all at once
  7. 7 cook and stir till thickened and bubbly
  8. 8 remove from heat
  9. 9 stir in sour cream and 1 / 2 cup of the cheese
  10. 10 stir 1 / 2 cup of the sauce into the chicken mixture
  11. 11 fill each tortilla with about 1 / 4 cup of the chicken mixture
  12. 12 roll up and arrange in a 13x19x2 baking dish
  13. 13 pour remaining sauce over and sprinkle with remaining cheese
  14. 14 bake , uncovered in a 350 oven about 25 minutes or until bubbly
  15. 15 can be made ahead of time and frozen
  16. 16 place a large sheet of heavy duty foil in your baking dish with enough foil over the end to fold up and over the frozen casserole
  17. 17 make the casserole up until you are ready to bake it
  18. 18 freeze it solid
  19. 19 remove frozen casserole from your dish and encase in the excess foil for storage
  20. 20 this frees up the dish for other meals
  21. 21 when you wish to heat it , remove foil from the still frozen casserole , and place back into the dish that you froze it in initially to thaw
  22. 22 bake as directed
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