Enchilada (Chicken)
Hello Dear Friends,
Enchilada great Mexican foodThere are different recipes for making this legendary dish. Corn tortillas made from cornmeal are used in Mexico. We use lavash with tortilla written on it, which you can easily buy from the markets.
Its name comes from chilli pepper, a type of hot pepper. Since we didn't want it to be too hot, we used capia and sweet green pepper.
The biggest feature of this recipe is the sauce, although chili peppers are used in the sauce, I used a thick pepper paste in it. It made the color of the sauce incredibly beautiful. Apart from this, you can use grated tomatoes or homemade canned tomatoes for the winter. If you don't have any of these, you can also use a tomato puree that you like from the market.
Generally, garlic or onion powder is used in sauces, but I haven't gotten much flavor from those powders until now. That's why I added 1 finely chopped clove of garlic, so it had a more lively flavor.
It is possible to make meat or vegetarian versions of this recipe. After all, whatever you wrap in the wrap, if you add this sauce and cheese on top, it has all kinds of expenses :)
Fresh coriander is usually used for the topping, but I added a little parsley as it didn't suit our taste. This was to make it look more appetizing than delicious.
The ingredient list or the preparation of the recipe should not seem long and difficult to your eyes. It looks that way because I wrote it down to the smallest detail. It's actually one of the easiest meals in the world. We can summarize it as grill, sauté, fold and bake :)
If you want to experience a full Mexican breeze at home, guacamole You can serve it by preparing sauce and sour cream.
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Ingredients for Enchilada (Chicken) Recipe
- 4 medium tortillas
- 2 pieces of chicken breast
- salt
- black pepper
- 4 tablespoon of olive oil
For the pepper paste:
- 2 capsicum peppers
- 1 chili pepper (seeds removed)
- 3 green peppers (sweet spikes can be used)
- 1 medium onion
- 1 cloves of garlic
- 2 tablespoon of olive oil
- salt
- black pepper
For the enchilada sauce:
- 2 tablespoons of flour
- 3 tablespoon of olive oil
- 1 tablespoon of pepper paste
- 1 cup tomato puree
- 1,5 water glass of water
- 1 small clove of garlic
- cumin with the tip of a teaspoon
- salt
- black pepper
For the above:
- 6-7 slices of cheddar cheese
- 1 teaspoon grated cheddar cheese
- 1 pinch of parsley
How to Make Enchilada (Chicken) Recipe?
- Cut the chicken breasts sideways into 2 parts and thin them out. Mix with salt, pepper and olive oil and set aside.
- Chop the onion, finely chop the garlic.
- Cut the peppers lengthwise into 2 parts and remove the seeds and chop them like onions.
- Heat olive oil in a wide pan. Start sautéing the chopped onions, garlic and peppers. Add salt and pepper, remove from the stove and let it cool.
- For the sauce, take the olive oil in the sauce pan, add the flour on top and fry it until the smell comes out.
- Add tomato puree and tomato paste to the flour and continue frying.
- Add 1 finely chopped garlic clove and its juice and mix.
- Add salt, pepper and cumin and remove from heat.
- Cook the chickens in a well-heated cast iron pan or grill until they get a mark. Finely chop the cooked chicken with a knife.
- Get the first tortilla on the counter. Spread 1-2 tablespoons of sauce in strips. Sprinkle a quarter of the chicken pieces in strips on top.
- Add a quarter of the pepper mortar you prepared on top.
- Roll the filled tortilla and place it in the baking dish.
- Do the same with the other 3 tortillas and place them side by side in the baking dish.
- Pour and spread the remaining enchilada sauce on the rolls you have lined up.
- Line up the cheddar cheeses and grate the cheddar cheese.
- Bake in the oven preheated to 200 degrees for 5 minutes until the cheese melts. Open the grill of the oven, let the cheese on it brown and take it out of the oven.
- Serve with a sprinkling of parsley, if not coriander.