Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Mandatory Recipe: Chicken Enchiladas


Clients! This is your mandatory recipe this week! Please find time to make it. The leftovers of it are delicious so it could easily last you for days and is not too expensive and it's very, very healthy!!

This recipe is enough for 8 servings.
Ingredients
2 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
1 can of pinto beans
1 can of black beans
1 can of yellow corn.
1 cup of cooked whole wheat rice
1 tomato
1 can of tomato paste
1 can of tomato sauce
1 can of Rotel
1 tsp of chili seasoning (Both seasonings need to be organic: buy them from a farmers market)
1 tsp of fajita seasoning
1/2 c. original salsa (target has an archers farms brand that is good)
1 tspn black pepper
1/2 c. chicken broth (no sodium and organic)
3/4 c cheese, separated
8 whole wheat tortillias

So the first step is to get that chicken boiling because it will need to be shredded, so get the chicken boiling!
Then, get the rice into the rice cooker and get it cooking as well.
Next, work on the sauce, To begin with the sauce, combine the paste, sauce, and Rotel and mix together, and then add the seasonings and the salsa.  Stir, then add the broth and allow to boil.  Simmer for ten minutes.
Set aside 2 1/4 cup of plain sauce and spread one into 9x13 pan.
While it's simmering, shred chicken meat. It's best to do with a fork.  Hold chicken with one fork, then take another and shred it apart into bite size pieces.
Add chicken and both cans of beans and corn.
Add cooked rice.
Add one portion of cheese.
Stir together and make sure consistency is thick, but that there is still sauce covering all the ingredients.
Sprinkle tortillias with a slightest amount of water to make flexible.
Place tortillias in hand, and put 1/2-3/4 cup of mixture into tortillia, wrap and close. Place in pan, follow with all tortillias. Freeze any leftover mix and save for next time!
Sprinkle other 1/4 cup of sauce that was set aside.
Sprinkle remaining cheese.
Slice tomato into sandwich slices and decorate on top.
Optional: Olives and Tortiilia chips can also be crushed and spread on top. I <3 it that way!

Enjoy! Post a comment to tell me you did it!

2 comments:

-J said...

Hey Steph,
I tried the enchiladas! I had to improvise on some things, but they turned out fine. Thanks for the yummy recipes!

Kaitlyn Brower Dressman said...

Took me 3 hours (while doing laundry) but they are all made! Thanks for the recipe!!