Среди традиционных блюд мексиканской кухни Enchilados deserves special attention. The recipe of its preparation is extremely simple. In fact, this is a regular tortilla with a filling. Moreover, the cake itself can be made from both wheat and corn flour. Meat (usually chicken) is usually used for the filling, but sometimes eggs, greens or vegetables are also added to it.
Vegetarian Enchilados
Mexicans to prepare their nationaldishes often use different legumes. At any local cafe you can order enchilados, the recipe of which includes the following main ingredients: 350 grams of nutmeg squash, 8 cups of cheese, 425 grams of canned black beans, 1 avocado, 15-20 grams of olive oil, 340-350 for 8 tortillas grams of chilli pepper, йог cup yogurt and onions, one and a half tablespoons of ground cilantro and a cup of sour cream.
How is enchilados done? The recipe consists of several consecutive steps:
- First you need to warm up the oven well. The temperature in it should be at least 205 degrees.
- Pumpkin pulp cut into large cubes, salt, sprinkle with pepper, pour over oil and bake for 20 minutes in the oven, spreading the products on a baking sheet until they are soft.
- In a separate plate, mix the beans, cilantro, baked pumpkin and finely chopped onion.
- In another bowl to cook the sauce from yogurt and chopped chili.
- Put a portion of the prepared filling on each tortilla, sprinkle it with grated cheese beforehand and roll it up.
- At the bottom of the baking dish pour half the sauce.
- Put the tortillas with filling in it so that the seam is at the bottom.
- Pour all this with leftover cooked sauce and sprinkle with cheese.
- Bake for at least half an hour at a temperature of 175 degrees.
Very juicy and fragrant enchilados are obtained.The recipe will be incomplete if the dish is not served correctly. First, the tortillas should be slightly cooled, and then put them on a plate, pour sour cream and garnish with avocado pulp. If there are no these products, then one sauce will be enough.
Mexican chicken rolls
Most often, Mexicans cook enchilados with chicken.For this dish you will need the following mandatory set of products: 2 chicken fillets (500 grams), 3 cloves of garlic, 200 grams of cheese, onion, 8 tortillas (or 2 thin lavash), chili pepper pod, 2 tomatoes, 4 grams of sugar, 7 sprigs of cilantro , 40 milliliters of sour cream, one and a half grams of black and red ground pepper, 70 milliliters of vegetable oil and 8 grams of salt.
Preparing this enchilados is very simple:
- First, the fillet should be cut into pieces, and then lightly fry it for 10 minutes in a frying pan.
- Add red pepper to the meat, mix and then remove from the stove and pour sour cream.
- Prepare the sauce. To do this, combine diced onion with chopped garlic and chili. Fry the mixture slightly for no more than 3 minutes.
- Add chopped tomatoes (pre-peel them), black pepper, sugar, salt. Mix for 5 minutes.
- Put some of the filling on the tortillas, sprinkle with cheese, and then roll them up into a roll. If pita bread is used, then each of them must first be cut into 4 pieces.
- In the form pour part of the sauce, put the workpiece, pour the remnants of the mixture.
- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Enchilados prepared in this way can be eaten as soon as they cool down a little.
Tortillas with minced meat
The easiest way to cook enchilados with minced meat.The work will require the following components: 8 tortillas of corn, 0.5 kilograms of grated tomatoes, an onion, 1 dried pepper, salt, half a cup of broth, 50 milliliters of sour cream, 150 grams of grated cheddar, 17 grams of vegetable oil, a sweet pepper, 4 feathers green onions, half a teaspoon of ground coriander and 400 grams of ground beef.
Technology of preparation:
- Onions clean, crumble and browned in a frying pan.
- Add mince to it and continue processing until it changes color.
- In a boiling mass put randomly chopped vegetables, spices and simmer for half an hour under the lid.
- Chilled sauce filled tortillas. Each of them roll roll.
- Put the blanks in the form and pour the rest of the sauce.
- Cover them with a mixture of grated cheese and sour cream.
- Bake in the oven at 220 degrees. On the surface should form a ruddy crust.
Before serving, chilled rolls can be sprinkled with finely chopped green onions.
Tortilla with chicken and mushrooms
Mexican dish enchilados can be cooked andwith a mixed filling. For example, you can add mushrooms to a traditional chicken. With this filling the dish will turn out not just original, but also very tasty. First you need to pick up the necessary products.
For the sauce: 1 onion, 5 cloves of garlic, 2 pods of chili pepper, 10 grams of sugar, 400 grams of tomatoes in their own juice, ½ teaspoon salt and ground pepper, 40 milliliters of vegetable oil.
Для начинки:900 grams of minced chicken, 400 grams of champignons and cheddar cheese, a little salt, coriander, jeera and oregano, 40 milliliters of vegetable oil and half a teaspoon of chili powder.
The whole process can be divided into 5 stages:
- For the sauce, you first need to finely chop the peppers,after removing the seeds from them. Add chopped onion with garlic and fry the mixture for 5 minutes. Then add tomatoes, spices and simmer another 6-7 minutes.
- The filling is also very simple. It is necessary to crumble the mushrooms, and then fry them in butter along with the meat, until all the moisture has evaporated (10 minutes). Then add spices and simmer another 5 minutes.
- Put 3 spoons of filling on each tortilla, sprinkle with grated cheese and cilantro, and then roll it all up with a roll.
- Billet in the form of tubes lay on a baking sheet. After that, they again need to sprinkle with cheese.
- Bake for 20 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees until the surface of the products is reddened.
Finished enchilados can be sprinkled with greens on the plate.
