Mexican
Chicken Enchiladas Verdes
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Chicken Enchiladas Verdes is Mexican home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Simmer the chicken breasts in salted water until cooked through, about 15 minutes, then shred and reserve.
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Roast the tomatillos, jalapenos, and half the onion under the broiler until charred, about 8 minutes.
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Blend the charred vegetables with the garlic, cilantro, broth, and salt into a bright green sauce.
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Warm the corn tortillas, fill each with shredded chicken, roll up, and arrange in a baking dish.
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Pour the green sauce over the enchiladas and top with the Monterey Jack.
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Bake at 375F until the cheese melts, about 18 minutes, then drizzle with crema and serve.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Enchiladas Verdes, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Enchiladas Verdes carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 560 kcal
- Protein
- 46 g
- Carbs
- 29 g
- Fat
- 29 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 750 mg
- Saturated fat
- 11 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken Enchiladas Verdes takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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