The Best Chicken Enchiladas Suizas Recipe in the World
My Favorite Chicken Enchilada Recipe
Treat yourself to a rich Mexican culinary experience today. Chicken Enchiladas Suizas are a great make-ahead food for company or just for a weeknight when you want something a little special. I've included a few suggestions for side dishes, too. I hope you enjoy them.
Photo by Manuel W
I Love Mexican Food
Why you'll love the recipe for Chicken Enchiladas Suizas.
Living in South Texas, I have no shortage of great taquerias where I can eat wonderful Mexican food. I love to cook my own too. I've had this recipe for Chicken Enchiladas Suizas for many years, and I've fed it to a bunch of guests over the years.
The variety of flavors blend together beautifully. Tomatilla salsa instead of tomato salsa lends a tangy note to the creamy cumin-scented enchiladas.
It's easy to put together a day ahead and leave it in the fridge until time to bake it. I really like that. I also like to eat the chicken mixture as a salad by itself. It's SO yummy.
6 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup chopped onion
1 green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
8 oz. grated cheddar cheese
1 4-oz. can diced green chiles
1 cup purchased green chile salsa
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
4 teaspoons ground cumin
salt and black pepper
12 to 15 7-inch flour tortillas
10 oz. Monterey Jack cheese, grated
1 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup chicken broth
Garnish:
chopped avocado
chopped tomato
chopped fresh cilantro
Place chicken in pan of boiling water to cover, and simmer 15-20 minutes. Remove from heat, drain, cool, and shred chicken. In skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Cook onion and bell peppers until just soft, 5-8 minutes. Transfer to large bowl. Add chicken, cheddar cheese, green chiles, salsa, cilantro, and cumin. Season with salt and pepper to taste and mix well.
Note: you can do this much a day ahead and store in the fridge. It's pretty tasty just as is without the rest of the recipe, but since you're making a special dinner, read on.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 10x15x2-inch baking pan or 2 smaller pans. Place 1 flour tortilla on flat surface and place about 1/3 cup chicken mixture along 1 edge. Roll up from filling side, and place, seam side down, in prepared pan. Repeat process with remaining chicken mixture. Sprinkle Monterey Jack over enchiladas.
Combine cream and chicken broth and pour over enchiladas. Cover pan with foil and bake 30 minutes. Remove foil and continue baking 10 minutes or until thoroughly heated. Garnish individual servings with avocado, tomato and cilantro, if desired.
Here's a Great Side Dish to Go with Chicken Enchiladas Suizas
Mexican Coleslaw
1/2 to 3/4 cup garlic vinaigrette salad dressing
16 oz. bag of shredded cabbage for coleslaw
1 15 oz. can whole kernel corn, drained
1 15 oz. can black beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and diced
1 large tomato, diced
1 red pepper, seeded and diced
1/2 cup fresh cilantro
Mix all ingredients together and serve.
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Comments?
I've never tried to make enchiladas before, these look like I could handle it.
The coleslaw looks awesome, I've never seen coleslaw quit like it -- I can't wait to try it!
Sounds Great -- Mexican food is my favorite!
Sounds Great -- Mexican food is my favorite!
I have been looking for a Chicken Enchilada recipe! And now I've found it! *****
Awesome lens!
~Chloe
Yummy lens! Thanks for another great recipe!
We've been stuck in a burrito rut lately. I think this sounds like a nice Mexican dish to throw into the mix. Thanks for the tasty chicken enchilada recipe
I haven't had these in a while, I'm dying to have them again. Yours look excellent. Nice work!
Wow! another one of your yummy and delicious lens! I love chicken dishes and as what I've commented in your other lens, you can get to know another way to cook chicken- Adobong Manok! check it out!
My absolute favorite Mexican dish. The recipe sounds heavenly. great lens. 5*****
The enchilada recipe was great, thanks!
Delicious! I used corn tortillas and turned it into a 3 layer casserole, and my family of 4 ate the entire casserole in one night, mmmm!
I made the Mexican coleslaw and it was awesome!!!!!
Delicious Chicken Enchilada recipe!! Thank you so much! My 10 yr old loved them !!
Absolutely delicious recipe! It will forever be a part of my diner meals.
Sorry no ofense but not authentic mexican these should be called Americanized version!!!
Sorry no ofense but not authentic mexican these should be called Americanized version!!!
@anonymous: Whoa, you have a diner?
Made this for Christmas dinner with Tortilla Soup and green salad with creamy chipotle dressing. Everybody loved it and there was no left over. Perfect!
Well, I love this recipe...I did boil my chicken breast in water with two stalks of celery, 2 whole carrots ,salt and pepper and a heaping tablespoon of "better than bullion" chicken stock base....I boiled it until the chicken was falling off the bones..about an hour...then I shredded the chicken...I used HEB brand Hatch Chili Pepper salsa verde ...It is awesome! If you have an HEB grocery store near by I highly recommend this..I didn"t have cream but I did have half and half...it worked fine..I topped the enchiladas with fresh diced tomatoes w/ a little salt and pepper...the enchiladas were fabulous and they are all gone!!
@anonymous: Ricardo, I think you're right on this one. They do sound tasty, though. I have a question for you. If the tortillas were corn, would that make you happy, or would you change other aspects of the dish as well?
This recipe is an embarrassment and clearly intended for the lazy and ignorant. Anyone who knows anything about Mexican food knows you don't make enchiladas with flour tortillas. Further, recipes that call for "canned" anything as an ingredient, when a real cook would make that ingredient him/herself, should be discarded forthwith! I will say thank you for the laughs - it's always entertaining to see what non-Mexicans think passes for good Mexican. LOL
@anonymous: Yes there are...In the northern states.
Great lens with valuable info...
Sounds great! Thanks for sharing.
These are not authentic Mexican enchiladas, but the recipe looks good. For the person that said that flour tortillas aren't Mexican you are not well informed. In the Northern Mexican states flour tortillas are very popular. My parents are from Jalisco and they only use corn tortillas but my ex is from Sonora and they eat a lot of the flour tortillas. Nowhere in Mexico can you find a burrito with rice in it, that was created here I think in California . So yea this recipe is very Americanized but that's ok, they're good that's all that matters.
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