Enchiladas - Red or White Sauce
Enchiladas - Red or White Sauce

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook enchiladas - red or white sauce using 22 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Enchiladas - Red or White Sauce:
  1. Take TIP: Leftover chicken works great!
  2. Prepare 5 Chicken breasts and/or thighs.
  3. Take 15-18 corn tortillas
  4. Take 1 cup diced green onion
  5. Get 1/2 shredded cheddar cheese
  6. Get 1 tbsp Olive oil
  7. Get 1 tbsp taco seasoning
  8. Get Creamy White Sauce
  9. Take 3 tbsp butter
  10. Make ready 1 tsp flour
  11. Prepare 1 1/2 cup Chicken broth
  12. Prepare 2 cups milk
  13. Make ready 2 tsp onion powder
  14. Take 1 1/2 tsp garlic salt or to taste
  15. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp cumin
  16. Make ready 1 tsp chili powder
  17. Get 1 1/2 cup shredded pepper jack cheese
  18. Take 1 large or 2 small tomatoes, diced and set aside
  19. Take 1 jalepeno, diced small and set aside
  20. Make ready 2/3 cup bell pepper diced and set aside
  21. Prepare 2/3 cup Red onion diced and set aside
  22. Take 1 cup Sour cream

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Instructions to make Enchiladas - Red or White Sauce:
  1. Preheat oven to 350. Heat olive oil in skillet on med-high. Season chicken in hot pan. Sear chicken to brown then cover and turn down heat to low-med turning periodically.
  2. Meanwhile in a measuring cup wisk together the flour and half of the milk, this prevents lumps. In a large saucepan melt better and pour in milk mixture and stir frequently on low-med heat.
  3. Once it thickens continue to wisk and add chicken broth, the seasonings and remaining milk.
  4. Continue to stir periodically for 10 min. It will begin to simmer.
  5. When chicken is done, place on a cookie sheet or platter to cool. When cooled shred the chicken
  6. Stir in the pepper jack cheese and diced vegetables. Cook on low stirring periodically should be thickened some again.
  7. Stir in sour cream. Taste for any seasoning adjustments you want to make. If sauce is not thickened wisk together a bit more flour in a small amount of milk and add to sauce. Stir on med. Heat and it will thicken. You don't want it too thick, it will also thicken some in the oven.
  8. In a glass 9x11 pan place a little sauce in the bottom. Using tongs place tortilla in the sauce covering it completely until softened to roll up.
  9. Drain sauce from tortilla then place the tortilla in the pan, put some shredded chicken and cheddar cheese on tortilla and roll up till snug.
  10. Repeat for all the tortillas, placing them close together.
  11. Cover all the tortillas with the remaining sauce and top with the remaining cheddar cheese and green onions. Bake for 20 minutes.
  12. If tortillas are not mostly covered in sauce cover the pan while baking. ENJOY!

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