Easiest Way to Make Delicious Chicken Verde Enchiladas

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Roll up the tortillas around the filling and place seam-side down in the baking dish. Build enchiladas: put about ¼ cup chicken mixture in center of tortilla, roll it up and place seam side down in the baking dish. If you're pressed for time, use a store-bought green sauce (made from tomatillos) and shredded store-bought rotisserie chicken for a quicker version of this dish. You can cook Chicken Verde Enchiladas using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken Verde Enchiladas

1. You need 1 1/2 lb of raw skinless chicken tenders.
2. You need 1/4 tsp of garlic powder.
3. It's 1/8 tsp of oregano.
4. You need 1/8 tsp of ground cumin.
5. You need 1 of salt to taste.
6. It's 1 of verde sauce or salsa.
7. You need 1 of salsa con queso.
8. Prepare 1 of sour cream.
9. It's 1 of shredded mexican cheese blend.
10. Prepare 1 of corn or flour tortillas.

These bubbling, subtle-tasting enchiladas are even better with a cool, crunchy salad on top. From the book "Mad Hungry," by Lucinda Scala Quinn (Artisan Books). After frying the tortillas and dipping in salsa verde, I filled with sour cream, the chicken, some onions and the cheese. It should be the texture of chicken salad.

Chicken Verde Enchiladas instructions

1. Season chicken with garlic powder, oregano, cumin and salt and place in the bottom of the slow cooker. Cover with salsa verde, cover and cook HIGH 2 hours..
2. Pre heat oven to 350°.
3. Remove and shred chicken when done..
4. (Optional) if using corn tortillas heat oil in a small pan. once hot fry 1-2 mins a side. You don't want them too crispy as you'll need to roll them..
5. Assemble your enchiladas by layering tortillas with sour cream, salsa con queso, and chicken. Then roll em up!.
6. Place enchiladas in a greased baking dish and pour remaining green sauce over them and top with shredded cheese. Bake at 350 15-20 mins.

These green chicken enchiladas with salsa verde, chicken, sour cream, cheese and cilantro are simple to make. Salsa verde is a green tomatillo salsa made with garlic, onion and peppers. You can make it yourself (see our homemade salsa verde recipe) or buy it from the store. Look for a salsa with medium heat. Roll up and place, seam side down, in baking dish.