Three Cheese Chicken Enchiladas
The creamy sauce that makes these enchiladas a delicious and easy-to-assemble dinner.
Recipe Details
Servings: 12 enchiladas
Calories: 369kcal
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 medium garlic clove, minced
- 1½ tablespoons canola or vegetable oil
- 2 cups chopped cooked chicken
- One and a half 10 ounce cans ROTEL Diced Tomatoes and Green Chiles
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
- 3 ounces crumbled feta or goat cheese
- Twelve 6 inch flour tortillas
- 1½ cups half and half cream
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Cheddar cheese
- ¼ cup broken up cilantro leaves to top, optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Sauté onion and garlic in hot oil in a Dutch oven over medium high heat until tender. Stir in chicken, Rotel, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in cilantro and feta cheese.
- Spoon about ¼ cup chicken mixture down center of each tortilla; roll up tortillas, and place, seam-side-down, in lightly greased 13x9 inch baking dish.
- Whisk together half and half and cumin powder in a small saucepan over low heat until cumin is mixed in and liquid is warmed. (You can also heat it in the microwave for about 2 minutes). Pour over tortillas.
- Bake, covered with foil, for 10 minutes. Remove foil and bake 10 more minutes. Sprinkle with shredded cheeses and cilantro (if using) bake 10 more minutes.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving, Calories: 369kcal, Carbohydrates: 19g, Protein: 22g, Fat: 23g, Saturated Fat: 12g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g, Monounsaturated Fat: 6g, Trans Fat: 0.01g, Cholesterol: 74mg, Sodium: 637mg, Potassium: 259mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 4g, Vitamin A: 562IU, Vitamin C: 4mg, Calcium: 417mg, Iron: 2mg
I never have really warmed up to enchiladas made with flour tortillas, but there are plenty of things to like about this one–so I substituted corn tortillas. The difference in calories (corn tortillas are about 40% of the calories of equally sized flour ones) made me feel a whole lot better about the half and half, and since the corn really ups the taste, I loved the recipe.
I’ve been looking for a good enchilada recipe and this sounds wonderful, but I’m not a fan of cumin or goat cheese. Can anyone suggest a few alternatives please? Thank you.
Another delicious recipe. Thanks Lori!
This is a great recipe! Easy and full of flavor.
I made this tonight for my picky roommate, and it was a big hit. Thank you so much!!
Sounds wonderful. Do you have nutritional information?
@Susie, For this one- no. There are programs online though where you can input ingredients and figure out nutritional information though.
tried making this for dinner tonight, super easy and tasted so good.
added to my menu list. hopefully soon! 🙂
you should enter these in the rotel contest
search for @rotel on twitter – rotel is posting recipes as they are entered into the contest
Totally adding this to my menu for next week. Yum!