Cheesy Baked Chicken Enchiladas

by Feels Like Home Blog™ on December 19, 2010

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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.

Cheesy Baked Chicken Enchiladas

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Ingredients

2 1/4 cups shredded cooked chicken (Joe used 2 cans of shredded chicken)
1 small red onion, finely chopped
1 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro
3 cups of your favorite salsa
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
8 8″ whole wheat tortillas
3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
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 9×13 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.

About a year ago, I received a cookbook called Dollars to Donuts: Comfort Food and Kitchen Wisdom from Route 66′s Landmark Rock Cafe from a friend in PR. It’s full of my kind of recipes: simple, healthy, comfortable. We cook from it often; the original recipe came from that cookbook.