Description
A simple, delicious Green Chicken Enchilada recipe that uses homemade green enchilada sauce to make a tasty dinner!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup yellow onion, diced
- 1 tablespoon garlic, minced
- 2 large (3 medium) skinless, boneless chicken breasts, (cooked and shredded)
- 1 (4.5oz) can green chiles
- kosher salt and ground black pepper
- 1 (15oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed (or a 15oz can refried beans)
- 1 (8oz) container Kite Hill Plain Cream Cheese (optional)
- Approx. 7 large tortillas of your choice
- 2 cups green enchilada sauce (homemade or store-bought)
- 2–3 cups shredded cheese (regular or dairy-free) (more if you want)
- Toppings: cilantro, red onion, sour cream (regular or dairy-free)
Instructions
- Prep: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9×13 baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
- Make Filling: Bring a cast iron skillet to medium-high heat. Coat bottom of the pan with a little olive oil. Add garlic and onion, let cook for a few minutes, stirring fairly constantly. Add chicken and green chiles. Stir and let warm through, about 5-7 minutes.
- Fill & Roll: Take one tortilla at a time and add chicken filling to the center along with some black beans and cream cheese (if using) and then roll up. Place filled tortilla in the prepared pan and push up tight against one side. Continue filling tortillas with the chicken mixture and placing them in the pan.
- Sauce + Cheese: Once the pan is filled, pour the enchilada sauce over top. Sprinkle with cheese.
- Bake: Place in the preheated oven (middle rack, uncovered) for 20-30 minutes or until cheese is melted and enchilada sauce is a little bubbly.
- Cool & Serve: Remove and let cool a few minutes. Serve with your favorite toppings: fresh cilantro, diced red onion, sour cream.
Notes
- Tortillas: we love using Siete tortillas, but feel free to use whatever works best for you!
- Enchilada Sauce: We love our homemade Green Enchilada Sauce recipe and for store-bought we love the Siete brand, they have a great green or red enchilada sauce!
- Make them spicy: add in some jalapeño to the chicken, onion and green Chile mixture, if you want to spice it up more!
- Make Ahead: to prep these ahead of time I would recommend making the enchilada sauce (if you are making your own) and then just prep the filling for the tortillas (chicken, onions, green chiles, etc). Then throw everything together before popping in the oven.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6oz
- Calories: 257
- Sugar: 3.5 g
- Sodium: 612.8 mg
- Fat: 14.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 16.6 g
- Protein: 15.9 g
- Cholesterol: 58.7 mg