How to make the best healthy chicken enchiladas recipe – It’s so quick, simple, and easy! Uses shredded chicken and a red sauce to bake the best authentic enchiladas!
This is crunchy on the ends! It’s like eating chips! Grace announced last night at dinner.
Joe had surprised us with a new recipe, something we’d never tried before, cheesy baked chicken enchiladas.
I was dubious about eating enchiladas at this point of my pregnancy (because I have a lot of heartburn and indigestion) but the enchiladas were delicious.
I was excited to eat them again for lunch the next day; I don’t get excited about much these days.
Except ice cream. I still get excited about ice cream.
And eggnog.
Anyway, these enchiladas were tasty, and Joe said they were easy to make.
This recipe came from a cookbook called Dollars to Donuts: Comfort Food and Kitchen Wisdom from Route 66’s Landmark Rock Cafe. It’s full of my kind of recipes: simple, healthy, comfortable. We cook from it often; the original recipe came from that cookbook.
How to make the best healthy baked chicken enchiladas
- Preheat oven to 400º.
- In a large bowl, prepare the filling by gently mixing shredded chicken, onion, all but 2 tablespoons of the cilantro, 1/2 cup salsa, lime juice, salt, and pepper.
- Spread 1/2 cup salsa over the bottom of a 9×13 baking dish OR spritz the bottom of the dish with cooking spray.
- Divide the filling between 8 tortillas, forming it into a line down the center. Roll the tortillas around the filling, and place the enchiladas seam side down in the prepared baking dish.
- Cover the rolled enchiladas with remaining salsa and cheddar cheese.
- Bake until the top is golden brown and bubbly, about 30 minutes.
- Sprinkle with reserved cilantro and serve with sour cream.
Cheesy Baked Chicken Enchiladas
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups cooked chicken Joe uses 2 cans of shredded chicken.
- 1 small red onion finely chopped
- 1 cup cilantro finely chopped
- 3 cups salsa
- 1 tablespoon lime juice fresh
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper freshly ground
- 8 8-inch whole wheat tortillas
- 3 cups Cheddar cheese shredded
- Sour cream for serving
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400.
- In a large bowl, prepare the filling by gently mixing the chicken, onion, all but 2 tablespoons of the cilantro, 1/2 cup of salsa, lime juice, salt, and pepper.
- Spread 1/2 cup of salsa over the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish. (Alternately, you could just spritz it with olive oil or cooking spray, which is what Joe did.)
- Divide filling evenly among the 8 tortillas, forming it into a strip down the center of each. Roll the tortillas around the filling; place seam-side down in the prepared baking dish.
- Cover the rolled enchiladas with the remaining 2 cups of salsa and sprinkle evenly with cheese.
- Bake until the top is golden brown and bubbly, about 30 minutes.
- Sprinkle with remaining cilantro and serve with sour cream.
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Alise Wright says
I heart enchiladas and these look delicious! Thanks for the recipe!