how to make soft enchiladas?

[AustinTink]

All this talk about enchiladas made with flour tortillas is making my head hurt. No self-respecting mexican would ever make or eat their enchiladas made with flour. Blasphemy!

 

[Lintasare]

All this talk about enchiladas made with flour tortillas is making my head hurt. No self-respecting mexican would ever make or eat their enchiladas made with flour. Blasphemy!

I made chicken and cheese tonight with corn. But I don't fry mine in hot oil. One because I think my cooking oil has gone bad and two I don't need the extra fat. So I just soaked them in the bubbling enchilada sauce so they soaked up the flavor. Were nice and soft.

 

[AustinTink]

I made chicken and cheese tonight with corn. But I don't fry mine in hot oil. One because I think my cooking oil has gone bad and two I don't need the extra fat. So I just soaked them in the bubbling enchilada sauce so they soaked up the flavor. Were nice and soft.

Yum. Sounds good.

I fry mine in vegetable oil, blot/layer between paper towels then dip both sides in sauce before filling/rolling. Add more sauce and cheese (sparingly) to the top, bake and enjoy. I'm 1/4 mexican and 1/4 spanish and grew up in a border town at the tip of Texas. This is how everyone I know makes their enchiladas. I've had some of the best enchiladas made by some of the best Mexican grandma cooks around. Simply delicioso!

 

[tzolkin]

OP: The sauce is what makes them not get hard. If you're cooking them completely dry, they are going to get crispy. In a later post you mentioned that you cover them with sauce before eating, so why not either cover with sauce before putting in the oven (or at least dipping the tortillas).

To be honest, I don't even bother rolling and making enchiladas anymore. I just layer everything in the pan like a lasagna. It's much easier and still one of our family's favorite meals.

 

[bookgirl]

I cook my enchiladas in the sauce not seperatly. If anything they are over saturated the flour ones end up swelling up and soggy the corn ones are very soft but not soaked up like the others (we like both flour and corn). We like ours saucy though so I often bring the sauce up to over halfway, and somtimes almost all the way.

So cook in sauce, just not as much as me maybe.

ETA: I don't dip in oil at all. I do put some sauce in the enchilada with the meat and cheese but I just soften mine up in the microwave with a wet paper towel on them then roll put in the pan and pour the sauce over them, cook covered till bubbly then take out pour on cheese and put back in the oven until it melts, gets bubbly and light brown.

 

[disney4us2002]

Reporting back... I made the recipe from the pioneer woman site called "white chicken enchiladas" and while my family did eat them, everyone agreed that the tortillas were "weird". I didn't mention ahead of time that I was using corn rather than flour but clearly my family prefers flour tortillas whether they are called enchiladas or another name. Also, while I did soak/dip the corn tortillas in the hot enchilada sauce, they were NOT particularly pliable and I burned my fingers pretty good. Most would not roll and split when I tried.

Guess I'm back to the drawing board with looking for a good enchilada sauce but I will go back to flour tortillas - blasphemy or not.

 

[Caropooh]

DH's enchiladas he made for dinner tonight. Corn tortillas dipped in enchilada sauce (first warmed in microwave), filled with ground beef with a little cheese, sour cream and a few scoops of enchilada sauce, then rolled. More enchilada sauce ladled on top and some cheese. Baked at 375 for about 30 minutes. Had homemade spanish rice and refried beans.

 

[jsmith]

OP if you come back to this thread the sauce you are looking for is suiza sauce-its a creamy white enchilada sauce

This recipe http://www.squidoo.com/chicken-enchilada-recipe

uses the white sauce and flour tortillas-i cant vouch for how it will taste because im in the-and enchilada is in a corn tortilla camp-stacked or rolled-but im quiet sure this is the type of sauce you are looking for. If this recipe does not suit you google chicken enchildas suiza-i got several pages of hits.

and please never ever microwave flour tortillas-it ruins them.