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Creamy Chicken Enchiladas III

Source of Recipe

by Sarah, from Fat Free Living cookbook


Recipe Introduction

using flour tortillas . . . These are so good and definitely creamy! I actually got the recipe out of a cookbook... so you can use all non-fat ingredients and have a healthy, tasty meal too!!

List of Ingredients

1 - 1½ lbs boneless, skinless chicken tenders
water to cover
grated cheddar cheese as needed
1 can cream of chicken -OR- cream of mushroom soup
1 cup sour cream
1 4-oz. can chopped green chiles
flour tortillas as needed


Recipe

Place chicken in large pan with water to cover and cook until they're completely opaque (white)...always keeps 'em nice and moist. Grate some cheddar while they're cooking...I like them cheesy so I grate a lot.

Preheat oven to 350

Once the chicken's done, either shred it with a fork or cut it into chunks. Shredding takes awhile so I usually do it well in advance. Mix some of that cheddar in with the chicken.

Spray a 9x13 casserole dish with cooking spray.

In a bowl, mix soup, sour cream and chiles.

I use the small soft taco size tortillas (flour)...spoon the chicken mixture into the tortillas, roll them and put them in the sprayed casserole dish. I can usually squeeze 8-10 enchiladas in there.

Spread the soup mixture over the top of them and sprinkle the rest of the cheddar on top. Pop it in the oven for 25-30 minutes...

5/4/04: OMG! A twist to Creamy Chicken Enchiladas!
I finally got to make them last night...lol. And I decided I needed a change to them so I mixed it up a little. I don't use the green chiles when I make them because we don't like them. Last night I decided I needed some red pepper in them.

So I got out my Ultimate Chopper...lol...and I put half a red bell pepper in there along with some cheddar and made a kind of paste out of it. When I made the enchiladas, I put some of the normal sour cream mix in, then the red pepper paste and chicken...wrapped 'em up like normal, spread the leftover RP paste over the top and smothered with the sour cream mix and cheese....

It's definitely a different flavor but I really liked it! I'm not sure how Joe felt about it but he's not a huge fan of peppers anyway...lol. He said they needed to be toned down a little...but I thought it was fine. Caity refused to eat it (but she's refusing to eat everything lately...lol).

Anyway, just thought I'd share my twist on a favorite!