Chicken Verde Enchiladas

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These chicken enchiladas are made with a tangy tomatillo salsa verde sauce! This is a fantastic recipe to serve a hungry crowd, whether it's Friday movie night, a pot-luck party, or just a weeknight dinner with your family. Salsa verde is a green tomatillo salsa made with garlic, onion and peppers. You can make it yourself (see our homemade salsa verde recipe) or buy it from the store.

Chicken Verde Enchiladas is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Chicken Verde Enchiladas is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chicken verde enchiladas using 12 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Verde Enchiladas:
  1. Prepare 5 lbs chicken thighs (you will need to pre-cook and shred)
  2. Take 2.5 cups mild salsa verde
  3. Prepare 1⁄2 Cup Salsa Jalapena
  4. Prepare 5 cloves minced garlic
  5. Take 2-7 oz. Cans roasted green chilis(drain first)
  6. Make ready 1 bunch cilantro chopped (3⁄4 cup)
  7. Get 10 oz.can (minimum) enchilada sauce
  8. Get 1 lime (juice from)
  9. Make ready 4 cups shredded jack cheese
  10. Prepare 1 1⁄2 cups sour cream
  11. Take 24 corn tortillas(pkg. of 30)
  12. Make ready 1 tablespoon cooking oil

Stir the soup, water, chiles, oregano and chili powder in a medium bowl. Roll up the tortillas around the filling and place seam-side down in the baking dish. Toss chicken with coriander, chile de árbol, and ½ cup green sauce in a large bowl; season with salt. It should be the texture of chicken salad.

Steps to make Chicken Verde Enchiladas:
  1. Heat oil in skillet over medium heat and saute minced garlic for 1 minute.
  2. Stir in the salsa verde and salsa jalapena. Then heat thoroughly.
  3. Remove skillet from heat and stir in sour cream and most of the cilantro saving a little for garnish.
  4. Taste. Add salt, pepper, or even more sour cream if sauce is too spicy.
  5. Set aside 2 cups of the sauce to use when assembling the enchiladas.
  6. Squeeze the juice of the lime all over the shredded chicken.
  7. Stir in shredded chicken and half of the cheese to main portion of the sauce.
  8. Preheat oven to 350°. Spray two 13x9 in. baking pans with cooking oil and spread half of the reserved sauce (minus chicken) in each baking pan.
  9. Put a portion of chicken mixture in each tortilla and roll, placing them in the pan side by side. (I quickly dip each tortilla in boiling water before rolling so they don't break)
  10. You will end up with 2 full pans of enchiladas. (Approximately 24 total)
  11. Pour enchilada sauce over enchiladas and add cheese to the top. I prefer jack cheese, but use what you like.
  12. Cover pans with aluminum foil and bake for 15 minutes.
  13. Then bake uncovered for another 15 minutes.
  14. Serve with cilantro on top.
  15. I make spanish rice and beans to compliment this meal.
  16. Link to my Spanish Rice recipe:
  17. Spanish Rice: Https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/11008554-spanish-rice?invite_token=RQZWEVG5tfSCLZwZBzneUxT1&shared_at=1604947576

Toss chicken with coriander, chile de árbol, and ½ cup green sauce in a large bowl; season with salt. It should be the texture of chicken salad. These restaurant-quality Chicken Enchiladas Verde are a creamy and comforting Mexican meal made in an Instant Pot, then baked in the oven (or skillet) until hot and bubbly. It's an easy green enchilada recipe that takes a few short-cuts from the grocery store. Arrange tortillas, seam sides down, in baking dish.

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