Simple Chicken Enchilada Suizas
photo by lazyme
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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12 enchiladas
- Serves:
- 4-6
ingredients
- 12 corn tortillas
- 2 1⁄4 cups diced cooked chicken breasts
- 2 cups medium salsa verde
- 1⁄4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 3⁄4 cup reduced-fat sour cream
- 2 (9 ounce) packages of shredded swiss cheese
- 1⁄4 cup sliced scallion
- diced tomato (to garnish)
directions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.When you turn oven on - warm tortillas stacked together and wrapped in tin foil.
- Mix cilantro, sour cream and Salsa verde together in a bowl.
- Once chicken is cooked and diced, combine with one package of swiss cheese in separate bowl.
- Remove tortillas from oven and prepare a 9X13 baking dish to place them inches.
- Spoon 3/4 cup of the salsa mixture into bottom of baking dish.
- Spoon chicken and cheese mixture into each tortilla shell and roll up.
- Place rolled enchiladas seam-down into baking dish.
- Pour remaining salsa mixture over the top of the enchiladas.
- Cover and bake for 15-20 minutes, until cheese is melted and sauce is bubbling.
- Uncover and spread remaining swiss cheese package over the top of enchiladas.
- Bake for another 10 minutes, or until cheese is melted.
- Remove from oven.
- Garnish with sliced scallions, and tomatoes (optional).
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The name of this dish means "Swiss enchiladas," not because it's a Swiss recipe but because of the generous use of dairy as compared to the more traditional Enchiladas Rojas (red). Also the generous amount of dairy used in this dish are lots of cheese and sour cream. Because this is a Mexican dish - cheese like queso fresco, Oaxaca cheese, Jack cheese - but Swiss cheese - there is no Mexican dish out there with Swiss cheese. I know this because I am married to a Mexican cook and I lived 5 years in Mexico.
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