how to make soft enchiladas?

[KathyTX]

The white chicken recipe on the pioneer woman site looks promising. I may attempt that. I know I've never had green sauce enchiladas in our local mexican because I hate the green sauce; they are almost white. I wish I knew how they make them!

Is it a sour cream sauce? Sour cream chicken enchiladas are delicious!

 

[honeydiane1953]

Post # 33 you hit the nail on the head. Was going to post about Ree's recipe when I saw your post!

 

[Lintasare]

And now I want enchiladas. Just cheese...with red sauce.

 

[cornflake]

Without getting into the corn/flour, enchilada/burrito debate and returning to the original q....

OP, if you're wrapping them in foil before cooking in the oven, you're making them hard by nuking the tortilla.

Don't do that!

Just use it cold and then wrap in foil and bake, it'll stay soft.

If it's cracking when you roll stuff because it's cold, you're using blah tortillas, heh either just warm them for a sec in a dry sautee pan (don't COOK, just like place in the pan, wait 10 seconds, turn, then remove. Don't toast, just warm, or put a whole stack of them, with fairly moist paper towels in the microwave for literally like 10 seconds. All you want is pliability.

A microwave will make bread harden in like 20-30 seconds of cooking time. It feels soft at first, then gets hard and cracky.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

A trick a friend taught me for enchiladas with corn tortillas is to dip the entire tortilla in warm enchilada sauce, then add the filling, roll up and place in the baking dish seam side down. The warm sauce softens the tortilla making it plyable to fill & roll.

^ This is basically what I do, too.

My mom used to dip them in hot oil first, then fill them and roll them. When we were ready to eat she would put them in a hot pan on the stove that had enchilada sauce. The cheese would melt. They were delicious this way. We never put them in the oven. I never heard of that until I read it on the DIS (unless it was enchilada casserole).

And enchiladas are made w/corn, not flour tortillas.

 

[tasha99]

While most recipes I use call for dipping in hot oil, I usually either dip in hot sauce or sprinkle water on them and nuke them till they're soft. When I soften flour tortillas, I usually do that in a hot, dry skillet. I never use flour tortillas for enchiladas though--they're made of corn tortillas.

I like the green sauce over the red sauce. Which is what the OP might have at the restaurant, covered in cheese.

I've never had an enchilada made out of corn tortillas, just tacos and tostadas (which are served with fried corn tortillas).

Are you sure you aren't just not recognizing it as corn since it's soft and not fried crisp? I've lived in every region of the US and love enchiladas, so I've ordered tons in restaurants. The only place I ever got them made with flour was in Kentucky, in a restaurant that also used artificial sour cream and bottled salsa.

 

[Nanabug02]

Okay, I have never found an enchilada recipe that I liked as much as a restaurant, until this recipe. It is for White Chicken Enchiladas (chicken enchiladas with green chile sour cream sauce). It is SO good. And very easy to make. I usually just buy a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, shred it, and use that for the chicken. You can either use white corn tortillas or flour tortillas. Make these, you will LOVE them!

http://joyful-mommas-kitchen.blogspot.com/2011/09/white-chicken-enchiladas.html

 

[Lintasare]

I need to go buy enchilada fixins. Want cheese enchilada's so bad now.

 

[SandrA9810]

Are you sure you aren't just not recognizing it as corn since it's soft and not fried crisp? I've lived in every region of the US and love enchiladas, so I've ordered tons in restaurants. The only place I ever got them made with flour was in Kentucky, in a restaurant that also used artificial sour cream and bottled salsa.

The only taco truck I eat at makes fresh corn tortillas for their taco, so I have them a lot. I cant stand the dime size shells cooked in oil they use at other trucks. They just roll them out on a little crank machine, and throw them on the hot grill for a few minutes, never cooked in oil. I've also had fresh flour from my bf's grandmother, she's from the old coutry.

I've only had fresh made enchiladas a couple of times. At the end of every semester in math, the teacher has a pot luck. Some one usually brings in enchiladas from their grandmother. But my favorite thing is tamales.

 

[KathyTX]

we make them with corn shells and I put some enchalida scuce in the pan and then fill each shell and roll and lay thru the pan then cover with sauce (we like a lot onthem) and cover and bake maybe 20 minutes to warm them thru. we do burritos with flour shells.

They're only "shells" when the tortillas are fried to hold their shape, like crispy taco shells.

In their normal soft and floppy state, they are just tortillas.

 

[lucas]

Okay, I have never found an enchilada recipe that I liked as much as a restaurant, until this recipe. It is for White Chicken Enchiladas (chicken enchiladas with green chile sour cream sauce). It is SO good. And very easy to make. I usually just buy a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, shred it, and use that for the chicken. You can either use white corn tortillas or flour tortillas. Make these, you will LOVE them!

http://joyful-mommas-kitchen.blogspot.com/2011/09/white-chicken-enchiladas.html

The picture looks delish and it sounds easy. I want to try this one!

 

[Lintasare]

I bought enchilada fixings!!!

Corn tortillas
red enchilada sauce
tomato sauce
chicken
ricotta cheese
mexican cheese blend

Gonna be yummy!

 

[Topper]

Exactly. I live in NM and around here all enchiladas are made with corn tortillas that I know of. And they aren't rolled, they are usually made like a casserole with layers of corn tortillas, filling, sauce and cheese with more sauce and cheese on top.

Flour tortillas are for burritos, fajitas and quesadillas.

Even the frozen enchiladas they serve at Trader Joes are made with corn tortillas.

I say again if it's made with flour tortilllas than it's not an enchilada.

If you are using flour tortillas there really is none.

Burritos can be made a couple ways, rolled up in a flour tortilla with no sauce for a handheld burrito. Or it can be rolled, put on a plate and covered in sauce. I like mine covered in sauce.

Enchiladas can be made a couple different ways as well. Casserole style where the corn tortillas are layered with the sauce and filling. They can also be rolled with the sauce spooned over the top.

I bought enchilada fixings!!!

Corn tortillas
red enchilada sauce
tomato sauce
chicken
ricotta cheese
mexican cheese blend

Gonna be yummy!

If you can put ricotta cheese in an "enchilada", then others can make "enchiladas" with flour tortillas.

 

[Lintasare]

If you can put ricotta cheese in an "enchilada", then others can make "enchiladas" with flour tortillas.

I like the creamy texture. Plus it's a rather bland cheese so it takes the flavor of the sauce really well.

 

[Topper]

I like the creamy texture. Plus it's a rather bland cheese so it takes the flavor of the sauce really well.

I just found it humorous that you insist that an enchilada must be made with corn tortillas, but you are willing to substitute an Italian cheese for the traditional Mexican requeson cheese.

 

[KathyTX]

I bought enchilada fixings!!!

Corn tortillas
red enchilada sauce
tomato sauce
chicken
ricotta cheese
mexican cheese blend

Gonna be yummy!

Ricotta in an enchilada??

 

[Lintasare]

I just found it humorous that you insist that an enchilada must be made with corn tortillas, but you are willing to substitute an Italian cheese for the traditional Mexican requeson cheese.

Well for one while they typically sell different mexican cheeses at my local supermarket they don't sell requeson. And when I went this morning they were pretty much sold out of what mexican cheese they do have. So I substituted. If they don't turn out I won't use it again. I am experimenting.

 

[wdw_monster]

There is no way you can make them with flour they would fall apart and be gooey, you need to use corn tortillas an then fry em in oil for a few seconds and fill em and roll em and top with sauce and cheese and bake. Red sauce for beef verde for chicken

My husband is a chef at a Mexican restaurant here in San Antonio i learned all my cooking from him

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[Lintasare]

Ricotta in an enchilada??

Don't worry. I decided to leave it out. I can save it for something else. Store was out of the mexican cheese they normally carry. I blame Balloon Fiesta.

 

[ahutton]

I am a bit of a snob with my mexican food. I've made the chicken and the beef enchiladas from this site and both are unbelievable.


http://thepioneerwoman.com/?s=enchiladas&submit=

ETA-I've never heard of using flour tortillas for enchiladas-only corn. You use flour for things like burritos, soft tacos. fajitas and quesadillas.

I used her recipe too - but I haven't found a green enchilada sauce I like so last time I used a jar of mild green salsa and it was excellent. If I want creamier sauce I will mix in sour cream with the sauce.