How to make enchilados: recipe and cooking methods

Among traditional Mexican dishes, enchilados deserve special attention. The recipe for its preparation is extremely simple. In fact, this is an ordinary tortilla with a filling. Moreover, the tortilla itself can be made from both wheat and corn flour. For the filling, meat is usually used (most often chicken), but sometimes eggs, greens or vegetables are also added to it.

Vegetarian enchilados

Mexicans often use various legumes to prepare their national dishes. In any local cafe you can order yourself enchilados, the recipe for which provides the following main ingredients: for 8 tortillas 350 grams of nutmeg pumpkin, one and a half measured cups of cheese, 425 grams of black canned beans, 1 avocado, 15-20 grams of olive oil, 340-350 gram of chili pepper, cup of yogurt and onions, one and a half tablespoons of chopped cilantro and a cup of sour cream.

How is enchilados done? The recipe consists of several successive steps:

1. First you need to heat the oven well. The temperature in it should be at least 205 degrees.
2. Cut the pulp of pumpkin into large cubes, salt, sprinkle with pepper, pour oil and bake for about 20 minutes in the oven, spreading the products on a baking sheet until they become soft.
3. In a separate plate, mix beans, cilantro, baked pumpkin and finely chopped onions.
4. In another bowl, prepare a sauce of yogurt and chopped chili.
5. On each tortilla put a portion of the cooked filling, sprinkle it with grated cheese in advance and roll it up.
6. Pour half the sauce onto the bottom of the baking dish.
7. Place tortilla with filling so that the seam is at the bottom.
8. Pour all this with the remains of the cooked sauce and sprinkle with cheese.
9. Bake for at least half an hour at 175 degrees.

It turns out very juicy and fragrant enchilados. The recipe will be incomplete if the dish is served incorrectly. First, you need to cool the tortillas slightly, and then put them on a plate, pour sour cream and garnish with slices of avocado pulp. If these products are not available, then one sauce will be enough.

Mexican chicken rolls

Most often, Mexicans cook enchilados with chicken. For such a dish you will need the following required set of products: 2 chicken fillets (500 grams), 3 cloves of garlic, 200 grams of cheese, onion, 8 tortillas (or 2 thin pita breads), a pod of chili pepper, 2 tomatoes, 4 grams of sugar, 7 sprigs of cilantro , 40 milliliters of sour cream, one and a half grams of black and red ground pepper, 70 milliliters of vegetable oil and 8 grams of salt.

Preparing such an enchilados is very simple:

1. First, the fillet must be cut into pieces, and then lightly fry it for 10 minutes in a pan.
2. Add red pepper to the meat, mix, and then remove from the stove and pour sour cream.
3. Make the sauce. To do this, combine diced onions with chopped garlic and chili. Fry mixture lightly for no more than 3 minutes.
4. Add chopped tomatoes (remove the peel from them), black pepper, sugar, salt. Pass the mixture for 5 minutes.
5. On the tortilla put a part of the filling, sprinkle it with cheese, and then roll in the form of a roll. If lavash is used, then each of them must first be cut into 4 parts.
6. Pour part of the sauce into the mold, lay the blanks, pour over the rest of the mixture.
7. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Enchilados prepared in this way can be eaten as soon as they cool slightly.

Minced tortilla

The easiest way to cook enchilados with minced meat. The following components will be needed for work: 8 tortillas from corn, 0.5 kilograms of mashed tomatoes, onion, 1 dried pepper, salt, half a glass of broth, 50 milliliters of sour cream, 150 grams of grated cheddar, 17 grams of vegetable oil, sweet pepper pod, 4 feathers green onions, half a teaspoon of ground coriander and 400 grams of ground beef.

Cooking Technology:

1. Peel, chop and fry the onions in a pan.
2. Add minced meat to it and continue processing until it changes color.
3. In a boiling mass, put arbitrarily chopped vegetables, spices and simmer for half an hour under the lid.
4. Stir in tortilla with chilled sauce. Each of them roll roll.
5. Place the billets in the mold and pour the rest of the sauce.
6. Cover them with a mixture of grated cheese and sour cream.
7. Bake in the oven at 220 degrees. A golden crust should form on the surface.

Before serving, chilled rolls can be sprinkled with finely chopped green onions.

Chicken and Mushroom Tortilla

The Mexican dish enchilados can also be prepared with mixed filling. For example, mushrooms can be added to traditional chicken. With such a filling, the dish will turn out not only original, but also very tasty. First you need to select the necessary products.

For the sauce: 1 onion, 5 cloves of garlic, 2 pods of chili pepper, 10 grams of sugar, 400 grams of tomatoes in their own juice, ½ teaspoon of salt and ground pepper, 40 milliliters of vegetable oil.

For the filling: 900 grams of minced chicken, 400 grams of mushrooms and cheddar cheese, a little salt, coriander, zira and oregano, 40 milliliters of vegetable oil and half a teaspoon of ground chili.

The whole process can be divided into 5 stages:

1. For the sauce, you first need to finely crush the peppers, having previously removed the seeds from them. Add to them chopped onions with garlic and fry the mixture for 5 minutes. Then introduce tomatoes, spices and simmer for another 6-7 minutes.
2. The filling is also very simple. It is necessary to crumble the mushrooms, and then fry them in oil with minced meat until all the moisture has evaporated (10 minutes). Then add spices and simmer another 5 minutes.
3. For each tortilla put 3 tablespoons of the filling, sprinkle with grated cheese and cilantro, and then roll it all up.
4. Place blanks in the form of tubes on a baking sheet. After that, they must again be sprinkled with cheese.
5. Bake for 20 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees until the surface of the products is browned.

Ready enchilados in a plate can be abundantly sprinkled with herbs.