chicken enchiladas
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This is not complicated but time consuming, most of the time we do this for special ocasions.
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prep time
1 Hr 30 Min
cook time
25 Min
method
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yield
10 to 12
Ingredients
- 2 small bags of drynew mexico chiles
- 2 medium garlics
- 2 pinches mexican oregano
- 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
- 2 large chicken breasts, whole, cooked and shreded
- 1 small onion to boil chicken
- 1 large chopped onion for enchiladas
- 1 1/2 pounds monterrey jack chesse, shreded
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 pound lard/1/4 c. for sauce,save rest for frying the tortillas
- 1 package corn tortillas
How To Make chicken enchiladas
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Step 1Enchilada sauce,cut stem and remove seeds from dry New Mexico chiles, rinse,in large pot boil water then put chiles in water, remove from stove and cover,let them soak until water turns cold,discard all the water,then liquifid in blender with 3/4 of blender full of water,do the same to all the chiles and you should have a kind of thin sauce, add your oregano and garlic and blend well,run through a strainer,save chile sauce discard skins. Heat large skillet put 1/4 cup of lard , add 3 tablespoons of flour to lightly brown,add chile sauce sitirring so wont be lumpy, add salt to taste.
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Step 2Fry tortillas both sides (soft) in lard adding as nedded,dipt into sauce adding chicken, chesse roll arrainge in plate pour more salsa over them, top with jack chesse.
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