How to properly make enchilados: a recipe and ways to prepare a dish

Among traditional dishes of Mexican cuisine, special attention is paid to enchilados. The recipe for its preparation is very simple. As a matter of fact, it is a usual tortilla with a stuffing. And the cake itself can be made from both wheat and corn flour. For the filling is usually used meat (most often chicken), but sometimes it also adds eggs, greens or vegetables.

Vegetarian enchilados

Mexicans often use different legumes to prepare their national dishes. In any local cafe you can order yourself enchilados, the recipe of which provides for the presence of the following basic ingredients: for 8 tortillas 350 grams of nutmeg, 1,500 cups of cheese, 425 grams of black canned beans, 1 avocado, 15-20 grams of olive oil, 340-350 A gram of chili pepper, ¼ cup yogurt and onions, a half tablespoon chopped cilantro and a cup of sour cream.

How is enchilados done? The recipe consists of several consecutive steps:

1. First you need to warm up the oven well. The temperature in it should be at least 205 degrees.
2. Pumpkin pulp cut into large cubes, add salt, sprinkle with pepper, pour with butter and bake for 20 minutes in the oven, spreading the products on a baking sheet until they become soft.
3. In a separate dish mix the beans, coriander, baked pumpkin and finely chopped onions.
4. In another bowl, prepare a sauce of yogurt and crushed chili.
5. On each tortilla put part of the prepared filling, sprinkle it with pre-grated cheese and roll up the roll.
6. Pour half of the sauce onto the bottom of the baking dish.
7. Put the tortilla with stuffing in it so that the seam is at the bottom.
8. Pour all this with the remainder of the cooked sauce and sprinkle with cheese.
9. Bake for at least half an hour at a temperature of 175 degrees.

Very juicy and fragrant enchilados are obtained. The recipe will be incomplete if the dish is served incorrectly. First, tortillas should be slightly cooled, and then put them on a plate, pour sour cream and decorate with slices of avocado pulp. If these products are not available, then one sauce will be enough.

Mexican rolls with chicken

Most often Mexicans prepare enchilados with chicken. For this dish you will need the following mandatory set of products: 2 chicken fillets (500 grams), 3 cloves of garlic, 200 grams of cheese, onion, 8 tortillas (or 2 thin lavash), chili pepper, 2 tomatoes, 4 grams of sugar, 7 cilantro branches , 40 milliliters of sour cream, one and a half grams of black and red ground pepper, 70 milliliters of vegetable oil and 8 grams of salt.

Preparing such an enchilados is very simple:

1. First, the fillet should be cut into pieces, and then lightly fry it for 10 minutes in a pan.
2. Add the red pepper to the meat, stir, then remove from the plate and pour the sour cream.
3. Prepare the sauce. To do this, combine the diced onion with chopped garlic and chili pepper. The mixture should be lightly fried for no more than 3 minutes.
4. Add crushed tomatoes (pre-peel them), black pepper, sugar, salt. Stir the mixture for 5 minutes.
5. On the tortilla put part of the filling, sprinkle it with cheese, and then roll up into a roll. If pita bread is used, then each of them must first be cut into 4 parts.
6. In the form of pour part of the sauce, lay the workpiece, pour the remnants of the mixture.
7. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Cooked in this way enchilados can be eaten as soon as they cool slightly.

Tortilla with minced meat

The easiest way to cook enchilados with minced meat. For work, the following components will be needed: 8 tortillas of corn, 0.5 kilograms of wiped tomatoes, onion, 1 dried pepper, salt, half a glass of broth, 50 milliliters of sour cream, 150 grams of grated cheddar, 17 grams of vegetable oil, sweet pepper, 4 feathers Green onions, half a teaspoon of ground coriander and 400 grams of ground beef.

Technology of preparation:

1. Peel onion, crumble and sauté on a frying pan.
2. Add minced meat to it and continue processing until it changes color.
3. In the boiling mass put randomly chopped vegetables, spices and simmer for half an hour under the lid.
4. Chop the tortilla with chilled sauce. Each of them roll up a roll.
5. Blanks put in a mold and pour the remainder of the sauce.
6. Cover them with a mixture of grated cheese and sour cream.
7. Bake in the oven at 220 degrees. On the surface should be formed ruddy crust.

Before serving, cooled rolls can be sprinkled with finely chopped green onions.

Tortilla with chicken and mushrooms

Mexican dish enchilados can be prepared with a mixed filling. For example, you can add mushrooms to a traditional chicken. With such a filling, the dish will not only be original, but also very tasty. First you need to pick up the necessary products.

For the sauce: 1 onion, 5 cloves of garlic, 2 pods of chili, 10 grams of sugar, 400 grams of tomatoes in your own juice, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and ground pepper, 40 milliliters of vegetable oil.

For the filling: 900 grams of chicken, 400 grams of champignons and cheddar cheese, a little salt, coriander, ziri and oregano, 40 milliliters of vegetable oil and half a teaspoon of ground chili pepper.

The whole process can be divided into 5 stages:

1. For the sauce, you first need to finely chop the peppers, after removing the seeds from them. Add them chopped onion with garlic and fry the resulting mixture for 5 minutes. Then introduce tomatoes, spices and simmer for another 6-7 minutes.
2. The filling is also very easy to prepare. It is necessary to crumble mushrooms, and then fry them in oil with minced meat until all the moisture evaporates (10 minutes). Then add spices and simmer for another 5 minutes.
3. For each tortilla put 3 spoonfuls of toppings, sprinkle with grated cheese and cilantro, and then roll it all with rolls.
4. Billets in the form of tubes to lay on a baking sheet. After that, they must be sprinkled with cheese again.
5. Bake for 20 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees until the surface of the products blushes.

Ready enchilados in a plate can be sprinkled with greens.