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I included Debbie Does Dinner Healthy’s BBQ chicken enchiladas in this past Saturday’s Things to Write Home About post.
While I was writing that post, Joe asked me what we should have for dinner. It was late in the day, and we needed something quick and easy.
I suggested those enchiladas, knowing that we had everything required.
Joe thought they sounded good, too, so he got to work.
And then he realized that we didn’t have any enchilada sauce, only taco sauce.
Rats. The recipe was started.
Instead of bagging the whole thing (my mouth was watering for BBQ chicken), I found a recipe for enchilada sauce on AllRecipes.com. Fortunately, we had everything we needed for that recipe, so Joe’s enchilada preparation continued.
When those enchiladas came out of the oven, they were gorgeous.
Then we tasted them.
These were the most delicious enchiladas I have ever eaten. And I like enchiladas.
At first, I wasn’t not sure if I was absolutely starving or if they were that amazing. I ate the one (one!) that was leftover for lunch on Sunday, and they really were that amazing.
Oh my goodness delicious.
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 3 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 16-oz can tomato sauce
- 2 cups water or chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 3-4 cloves garlic, freshly pressed
- 1 teaspoon onion powder or flakes
- salt to taste
- Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.
- Reduce heat to medium and stir in the flour and chili powder.
- Cook until lightly browned, stirring constantly to prevent burning.
- Gradually add the rest of the ingredients, continuing to stir to prevent the sauce from sticking and burning.
- Cook for approximately 10 minutes, or until sauce begins to thicken.
- Enchilada sauce, above (or a 28-ounce can of commercial sauce, but really – why would you let someone else season your enchilada sauce when making it is so quick and easy?)
- ½ cup BBQ sauce
- 2 cans (14 ounces each) of shredded chicken or 1.5 pounds of boneless chicken, cooked and shredded
- 1 medium sweet onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon BBQ seasoning
- ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper (more or less to taste)
- 6 ounces of shredded cheese (we used all cheddar, but Debbie used a combination of cheddar and colby jack)
- 8 tortillas
- Whisk the BBQ sauce into the enchilada sauce you just prepared.
- Preheat the oven to 375.
- In a separate pan, saute the onion for 7 to 10 minutes or until it is soft.
- Add the shredded chicken and spices to the onion. Mix well.
- Add ½ cup of the enchilada sauce and ½ of the shredded cheese to the chicken mixture and stir.
- Coat the bottom of a 9×13 baking dish with enchilada sauce.
- Fill each tortilla with about ⅓ cup of chicken mixture, roll it up, and place it seam side down in the baking dish.
- Pour the remaining enchilada sauce over the rolled up enchiladas, and top with the rest of the cheese.
- Bake at 375 for 25 minutes or until the cheese and sauce are bubbly.
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Looks great, what kind of BBQ sauce did you use?
Our favorite is Jack Daniel’s BBQ sauce with the blue label.
Looks absolutely delicious! Thanks for sharing!
My husband LOVES BBQ and I LOVE Mexican food, so this feels like the perfect dish for us!
Linking over from Tasty Tuesday. Bookmarking this recipe to try soon!!
Oh my! We would LOVE these!
Yes, you will! We made them twice this week. They are that good.
I’ve never heard of Famous Dave’s. I’ll have to look for it!
I love that you weren’t sure if they were THAT amazing at first.
They look so delicious!
This sounds delicous! I love enchilladas. YOu photos are making me so hungry!
Yvonne
That’s the idea.
I thought that photo came out very well, so I take that as a huge compliment.
I am drooling! These Enchiladas look awesome, great recipe that I will be trying very soon. Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and please come back!
YUM!!! I just finished cooking these (tripled the recipe so I could freeze 2). These were fabulous! Thanks for sharing!
These sound so good! I will definitely add these to my menu next week!
I am so glad you liked these! We still have a pan in the freezer that I can’t wait to dig into, thanks!
These look delicious!
Oh, they are.
Those look yummy. I love barbecue nachos and burritos so why not enchiladas?
Tara,
I just finished ANOTHER helping of leftovers from making these enchiladas this week. The best thing about them is that the more you eat, the more you want to eat! Thanks so much for this recipe, it’s going into my ‘repeat dinner’ file!
I’m so glad to hear it! We had them again this week, too. I think it was our fourth or fifth time since I posted the recipe.
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