Chicken Enchiladas (white sauce). Stir in flour, add chicken stock, heat and stir until thickened and bubbly. Add sour cream, green chilies and cayenne. Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
Add broth and whisk until smooth. In this easy chicken enchiladas recipe, we make a white sauce from chicken broth and sour cream that coats corn tortillas rolled up with shredded chicken, onion, peppers and spices. Poblano peppers tend to be mild, but if you really want to cut the heat, use a green bell pepper instead. You can cook Chicken Enchiladas (white sauce) using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chicken Enchiladas (white sauce)
- Prepare 4 Tbsp of Unsalted Butter.
- You need 5 of Green Onions, diced up.
- It's 3 Cloves of Garlic, minced.
- It's 3 Lbs of Chicken Breast, boneless skinless, Diced.
- You need 4 Oz of Cream Cheese, cut in chunks.
- Prepare 24 Oz of Salsa Verde.
- It's 8 of Burrito Size Tortilla Shells.
- Prepare 2 C of Mozzarella, Shredded.
Stir together the softened cream cheese, sour cream, and salsa until blended. Fold in chicken and shredded cheese. Spread a small amount of white cheese sauce onto the bottom of the baking dish. Evenly divide the filling among the tortillas, and roll into firm cylinders.
Chicken Enchiladas (white sauce) step by step
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Heat butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onions and garlic to oil. Heat until softened and oil is infused with flavor..
- Toss diced chicken into skillet. Heat until cooked..
- Stir in cubed cream cheese and salsa. Simmer until sauce is smooth and well blended..
- In a 9 X 13 cake pan spoon some sauce into the bottom of the pan..
- Place one tortilla shell at the edge of the cake pan, spoon chicken and sauce into tortilla (Doesn't need to be stuffed full), roll, and push too the edge of the pan. Repeat until shells are used. Pour remaining sauce over stuffed tortillas.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes..
- Turn oven off. Remove pan from oven, sprinkle with cheese, return to oven until cheese is fully melted..
- Separate individual enchiladas and serve. They can be served alone or with sides. A bed of lettuce, corn chips, beans, rice, vegetables, or whatever you would like..
Creamy White Chicken Enchiladas are made with flour tortillas, shredded chicken, shredded cheee, green chiles and a delicious white cream sauce! Chicken, cheese, tortillas covered in a cream sauce One of my favorite Mexican meals (besides chimichangas) are enchiladas. Place tortillas on a large towel or stack of paper towels to drain. In a large bowl, stir together the chicken, enchilada sauce, cheese, green chiles and onion. Then fill each tortilla, roll them up and place in a baking tray.