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Jun9

Pulled Pork Enchiladas

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Pulled Pork Enchiladas

Pulled Pork Enchiladas

Y’all know I love to buy meat in bulk and cook my fabulous meals on the cheap, but coming up with different recipes with the same meat can be tricky! Making 2-3 different meals with the same meat can help break up your dinners so it feels like you did the whole thing that night brand new. This recipe uses leftover pulled pork, and there are so many different things you can do with pulled pork besides BBQ sandwiches. This and my pork tacos are probably my two favorite Mexican themed dishes to do with leftover pulled pork. Also, there aren’t really measurements for this because each person will obviously have different amounts of leftovers, so I tried to take good pictures of the portions I used so you can get an idea for when you do yours.

Ingredients:
Leftover pulled pork
Tortillas (corn or flour. – both are great, but I used flour here only because that’s what my husband likes)
Caramelized onions
Green chiles
Sour cream
Mixed shredded cheese
Enchilada sauce
Salt and pepper

1. First put all your pulled pork in a mixing bowl. Pure guesstimate here, but I’ll say this looks to be about 4 cups of pulled pork.
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2. Take a few handfuls of your favorite shredded cheese, a few spoonfuls of sour cream, caramelized onions, green chiles, and a little salt and pepper and put it in your mixing bowl.
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3. Give it a big stir and it should look something like this:
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4. Get your enchilada sauce and smear a few spoonfuls at the bottom of a baking dish.
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5. Start stuffing your enchiladas by putting a few spoonfuls of the mixture in the tortillas. It helps if you warm them up a little first by wrapping them in a damp paper towel in the microwave for a little bit to prevent them from cracking.
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6. Once your dish is full of enchiladas, pour your sauce on top and top with shredded cheese.image

7. Cook in a 350 oven for about 40 minutes or until cheese is melted and sauce is bubbly.
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This is a side note, but if you’re one of those people that packs lunches for your husband or likes to have individual freezer homemade meals, I like to do a few individual enchiladas here to be placed in the freezer. Assemble, cover with plastic wrap, then a layer of foil and freeze. To cook later, remove foil/plastic wrap and place in oven/microwave for a tasty individual meal.
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Jan17

Cream Cheese Chicken Enchiladas

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Cream Cheese Chicken Enchiladas

Chicken Enchiladas With Cream Cheese Sauce

So, once again I had leftover grilled chicken and needed to do something with it, plus I had a request for a chicken enchilada recipe, so naturally I made my delicious cream cheese chicken enchiladas. Back in college, my friend Jill used to make her chicken enchiladas very similar to this recipe, and I’ve taken it and done things a little different with it. Actually, many things are different from when I was back in college, like how much I can drink and how late I can stay up, but that’s neither here nor there. I love the cream cheese sauce instead of a sour cream sauce and think these are so yummy! Also, I’ll go ahead and say I ran out of shredded cheese (in our family we call this “sprinkle cheese”) at the end, so I didn’t have nearly as much cheese on top of the enchiladas as I would’ve liked. It was a Great American Tragedy lemme tell ya, but they were still tasty 🙂

Ingredients:
2-3 cups of chicken chopped, sliced, shredded, whatever (Don’t make this part hard on you – use leftover chicken, a store bought rotisserie chicken you picked apart with your hands, or pan sear some chicken and chop it up in your kitchen)
1 1/2 cups salsa (Yes, you can use store bought salsa if you’d like. However, I’d suggest adding some chopped cilantro to it since they never have that fresh taste to them)
2 8 oz packages cream cheese
1 can Rotel
2 cans diced green chiles (I like the Hatch brand hot ones, but mild is fine too)
1/4 tsp garlic salt
Pepper to taste
1 dozen tortillas
At least 1 cup shredded cheese

1. Place your cream cheese in a pot over the stove on low heat. Don’t rush this because it burns easily. Keep stirring it around until it’s smooth and creamy like this.
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2. After it’s melted and creamy, add your salsa, Rotel, chiles, garlic salt, and pepper to cream cheese and stir. Taste the now pinkish mixture to see if you want to add more salsa to it or if you like it how it is. Keep on low to medium heat.
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3. Take one cup of the cheese sauce and pour over your chopped/sliced/shredded chicken. It will now sort of look like the most delicious chicken salad you’ve ever seen in your life! -14
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4. Spray a 9×11 baking dish with non-stick spray and preheat your oven to 350. Start to fill up your tortillas with about two spoonfulls each of chicken mixture.
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5. As you’ve heard me say before, I like corn tortillas and my husband likes flour, so I had him come in and help hold down the corn ones because they’re a little tricky sometimes.
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6. Pour the cheese sauce all over the enchiladas and make sure to spread it out so it covers the entire baking dish and there aren’t any “naked” tortillas.
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7. Sprinkle as much shredded cheese as you like all over the enchiladas.
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8. Bake in a 350F oven for 20-30 minutes or until cheese is melted and sauce is bubbly 🙂-7

Oct7

Easy Enchiladas w/Cheesy Hatch Sauce

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Easy Enchiladas w/Cheesy Hatch Sauce

Easy Enchiladas w/Cheesy Hatch Sauce

So there I was in my kitchen wondering what to make for dinner for my family when I read about the hatch chile festival going on. Naturally, I went and spent more money than I had planned because as it turns out, I’m obsessed with hatch chiles. This was actually the first of many hatch recipes I made with my newfound loves, but I’ll tell you about that later.

As I said I’m standing there with the freezer door open wondering how many different ways I can cook the rest of our deer meat so that I can make room for this year’s incoming (I mean, who doesn’t have that problem?) and I decide to put my peppers and deer meat together in an enchilada. Yum! It isn’t rocket science and certainly no new ground was stomped out here with a basic cheese sauce, but it’s what’s on the inside that counts, right?

Ingredients:
1 lb ground meat (I used deer, but if that’s not your bag you can use beef)
1 package smoked sausage (I used Eckridge)
1 can black beans drained
1 can corn drained OR 1-2 ears roasted corn cut off the cob
1 sweet onion (1015, honeydew, Vidalia, whatever you like)
2-3 cloves chopped garlic
Small package processed cheese (I like Velveeta sharp cheddar)
1/2 – 3/4 cup milk
4-5 roasted diced green chiles or 2 small cans diced green chiles
1 can diced tomatoes
Green onions
Tortillas
Your favorite seasonings (whatever you use just make sure it has salt, pepper, and garlic in it)

1. Sauté onion on medium to high heat for 10-12 minutes until translucent. Then add meat and chopped garlic and season with favorite seasonings. Meanwhile, make your husband go outside and fire up the grill for that package of Eckridge sausage I told you about. Your husband isn’t home? You don’t have a grill? Well then yes you can skip this step if you would rather cook sausage separately in a cast iron skillet or something that will leave a nice char on it. Once that’s done chop into bite sized pieces.

2. Once the meat is finished cooking combine sausage, ground meat mixture, 1-2 of the diced green chiles or 1 can of chiles, corn, and black beans and turn the heat off.

3. In a small sauce pot on low to medium heat melt Velveeta with milk, can of drained diced tomatoes, and rest of the diced chiles. Stir occasionally. Once completely melted turn heat off.

4. Pre-heat your oven to 350. Get out two 9×11 baking dishes and spray with non-stick cooking spray. Begin stuffing your enchiladas but putting 1-2 spoonfuls of meat mixture in each tortilla. Roll up and place firmly at one end of your baking dish. Each dish should hold about ten enchiladas.**Note** I had more than 20 enchiladas so I froze 6 more in pairs of 2’s in little microwave safe dishes. Then I put plastic wrap and foil on them and freeze for when I’m out of town for my husband or when I just don’t feel like cooking. I pull them out and they defrost on the counter for a couple hours and then I pop into oven to heat them up. It’s also what I do to the additional baking dish of 10 enchiladas. They freeze great!**

5. Pour cheese sauce all over enchiladas. Pop in the oven for about 15 minutes until bubbly. Take out and serve with your favorite toppings (chopped green onions, black olives, pico de gallo, whatever). Enjoy!