Mexican
Creamy Shrimp Enchiladas
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Melt the butter in a skillet and cook the onion, garlic, and cumin until soft, about 5 minutes.
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Add the chopped shrimp and cook just until pink, about 3 minutes, then season with salt.
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Stir together the sour cream, heavy cream, and green chiles for the sauce.
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Warm the corn tortillas, fill each with shrimp and a little Monterey Jack, roll, and arrange in a baking dish.
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Pour the creamy sauce over the enchiladas and top with the remaining cheese.
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Bake at 375F until bubbling, about 20 minutes, then finish with cilantro.
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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 Creamy Shrimp Enchiladas, 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. Creamy Shrimp Enchiladas carries dairy and shellfish. It is free of the remaining 8 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 | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| 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
- 600 kcal
- Protein
- 41 g
- Carbs
- 24 g
- Fat
- 38 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 780 mg
- Saturated fat
- 22 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Creamy Shrimp Enchiladas takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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