Creamy Shrimp Enchiladas

Mexican

Creamy Shrimp Enchiladas

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Creamy Shrimp Enchiladas 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.

55 min Involved Gluten free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves
5

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Melt the butter in a skillet and cook the onion, garlic, and cumin until soft, about 5 minutes.

  2. Add the chopped shrimp and cook just until pink, about 3 minutes, then season with salt.

  3. Stir together the sour cream, heavy cream, and green chiles for the sauce.

  4. Warm the corn tortillas, fill each with shrimp and a little Monterey Jack, roll, and arrange in a baking dish.

  5. Pour the creamy sauce over the enchiladas and top with the remaining cheese.

  6. 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.

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.

Every tracked allergen in Creamy Shrimp Enchiladas
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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