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Chicken Enchilada Casserole

Posted by on Nov 29, 2011 in Mexican, Multi Cuisine, Thanksgiving Recipes | 3 comments

I’ve already posted the Enchilada sauce recipe and here is the anniversary dinner I made for Karthik – Chicken Enchilada Casserole. It came out really yummy and tasted so good. Karthik loved it and he kept going back for the leftovers. 🙂

As I mentioned earlier this is one of the easiest casseroles I’ve ever made.Try this recipe and let me know if you liked it too.

Preparation Time: 60 minutes
No of servings : 4-5

Ingredients:

  • Enchilada Sauce : 4 cups
  • Corn Tortillas : 12 ( 6 inch) (Sofetend over flame or dry skillet)
  • Chicken : 2 pounds (cooked and shredded) (you can just stir fry the shredded chicken with some salt and pepper for about 10 minutes)
  • Jalapeno Peppers : 4
  • Sour cream : 1 cup
  • Shredded Swiss cheese : 1 & 1/2 cups (from about 1/2 pound piece)
  • Shredded Monterey Jack cheese: 1 & 1/2 cups (from about 1/2 pound piece)
  • Raw Red Onion Rings : for garnish

Method of Preparation :


  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
  2. Now  grease the  13-in. x 9-in. baking casserole dish.
  3. Pour a thin layer of enchilada sauce into the bottom of a medium casserole. Now layer in 3 corn tortillas or even 4.
  4. Then top with some shredded chicken mix with some enchilada sauce and small spoonful of sour cream.
  5. Sprinkle with little Swiss and jack cheeses and some jalapenos..
  6. Repeat this step twice more.
  7. Put the casserole dish on a baking sheet and bake it for 30 to 40 minutes until you see cheese bubbles on top.
  8. The baking sheet will catch any drips of sauce or cheese.
  9. After that remove from heat and garnish it with raw red onion rings if you want or you can skip this step.

If you wanted to try out a mexican food recipe it can’t get easier than this.

3 Comments

  1. sayantani / November 29, 2011

    Belated happy anniversary dear. the enchilada looks awesome…gonna make it soon.

  2. divya / November 29, 2011

    Slurp,salivating here, irresistible dish….

  3. Sindhu / May 13, 2013

    I tried the quesadilla n enchilada in veg instead of chicken… It turned out very good… I used al roots like potato, beet root, n some beans… Paneer as well… Thanks for sharing varities of recepies….