RecipeChatter

  • About
    • Find Us Online
    • Editors
    • Contact Us
  • Recipes
    • Appetizers
    • BBQ & Grilling
    • Beverages
    • Breakfast Brilliance
    • Casseroles
    • Copycat Recipes
    • Desserts
    • Gluten Free
    • Kid Friendly
    • Main Dish
    • Meat Dishes
    • Quick and Easy
    • Seasonal Recipes
    • Sides and Sauces
    • Slow Cooker
    • Snacks
    • Soup & Stew Recipes
    • Special Occasion
    • Vegan/Vegetarian
  • Holiday Food
    • 4th of July
    • Christmas
    • Easter
    • Halloween
    • Hanukkah
    • Memorial Day
    • Mother’s Day
    • St. Patrick’s Day
    • Thanksgiving
    • Valentine’s Day
  • Newsletter
  • Giveaways

How to Make Quick Easy Chicken Recipes: Enchiladas

January 21, 2010 by FaveHealthyRecipes

If there is one friend to the home cook, it is chicken. It is incredibly affordable. It is easy to use. It has a wide variety of uses. Best of all, it tastes great. For a quick easy chicken recipe for dinner, give this New Mexico Chicken Enchiladas recipe a try.It has only seven ingredients, making the prep work for this chicken cheese enchilada recipe a snap to assemble. Just stick it in the oven and pull out a delicious easy chicken recipe that will be devoured before your eyes. The recipes uses convenience products like canned soup to speed up the cooking process, but you can use homemade versions if you have the time.

New Mexico Chicken Enchiladas

Serves: 8

Cooking Time: 2 hr

Ingredients

1 whole chicken, fryer-type, giblets removed
12 corn tortillas
Oil
1 pound Bueno frozen green chiles
1 10.5-ounce can Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup
1 10.5-ounce can Campbell’s Cream of Chicken soup
12 ounces Muenster cheese, grated

Instructions

1. Put the chicken in a pot with water to cover. If you wish, you can cut the chicken into pieces to use less water to cover.

2. Simmer the chicken an hour until it is tender.

3. Cool, then remove the meat from the chicken and tear into bite-sized pieces (you can save and use the broth for something else).

4. Heat a little oil in a frying pan and briefly fry the tortillas, one at a time. Heat one side in the oil, then turn the tortilla over and cook the other side. The tortillas should be very soft.

5. Drain all the tortillas on a tilted plate so the the extra oil runs off.

6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

7. In a pot, combine the two soups, chiles and chicken; heat until it is warm.

8. In a casserole dish which is large enough to hold six tortillas, layer six of the tortillas.

9. Spoon half the chicken mixture over the tortillas and sprinkle with half the cheese.

10. Layer the remaining six tortillas.

11. Top with chicken,sauce and cheese.

12. Bake uncovered, for 30-40 minutes at 350 degrees F until very hot and slightly browned on top.

This is the first part in an ongoing series. To read part two, click here.

  • Author
  • Recent Posts
FaveHealthyRecipes
Editor at FaveHealthyRecipes
FaveHealthyRecipes has 1000s of quick healthy recipes and tips for living a healthy life! We want to teach you how to maintain a healthy lifestyle, so we are giving you all the tools you need to create a healthier you. We have information and recipes about modified diets and food allergies. We know that you will enjoy the quick and easy meals at FaveHealthyRecipes.
Latest posts by FaveHealthyRecipes (see all)
  • 15 Best Healthy Recipes for Your New Year’s Resolutions - December 29, 2022
  • 14 Healthy Soup Recipes For When You Have the Sniffles - December 28, 2022
  • 7 Day Healthy Meal Plan for Beginners - December 23, 2022

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: chicken recipes, cinco de mayo, easy, how to, kid favorites, Main Dish, Quick and Easy, quick and easy dinner, recipe

abc123

Email Email Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest YouTube RSS

Subscribe to the Recipe Chatter Newsletter.

Dinner Made Easy!

Eat Like It’s Friday Every Day: 10 Copycat TGI Friday’s Recipes

Categories

Free eCookBook Download

Strawberry Icebox Casserole

Strawberry Icebox Casserole

Before we get started... Be sure to check out RecipeLion.com's most delicious cookbook yet, Family Favorite Casserole Recipes. You can find this … [Read More...]

Archives

Appetizers

Eat Like It’s Friday Every Day: 10 Copycat TGI Friday’s Recipes

Casseroles

Mexican Casseroles: 12 Easy Recipes

Desserts

Chocolate Peppermint Truffles

Chocolate Peppermint Truffles

Healthy

Take-out Fakeout: 8 Chinese Food Recipes You Can Make at Home

Copycat Recipes

12 Days Of Christmas Giveaway: Winner Day Eleven

Slow Cooker

10 Slow Cooker Pork Chop Recipes: Tender and Juicy Main Dish

Prime Publishing Food Group
Copyright © 2023 · RecipeChatter.com - A Prime Publishing LLC property. All rights reserved.

About Us Advertise Contact Us FAQs Privacy Policy Do Not Sell My Personal Information Subscribe Terms of Service Unsubscribe

Copyright © 2023 · Tidy Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in