Monday night Mexican!

Another Monday night, another Mexican dish (I did say I had a problem). Roast chicken on a Sunday is my wife’s, in her words, very most favourite dinner! Which leaves us with the question, what to do with the leftover chicken? With my leek stores exhausted for the year, cock-a-leekie is out the window. So here’s a quick and easy recipe from one of our top 5 family meals, well it’s in Emily’s and my top 5, if you ask the kids their top 5 is almost any carb smothered in cheese or lobster and crab apparently!

Enchiladas

Enchiladas are a Mexican dish where a corn or flour tortilla is stuffed with a filling and covered with sauce and in my case cheese! They can be filled with various ingredients such as meats, potatoes, beans and vegetables. The most popular Enchilada sauce in our house is a tomato based sauce but other enchilada sauces include salsa verde (tomatillo based) and queso (cheese based).

Makes: 4 servings

Cook time: 45 minutes

Equipment:

• Mixing bowls

• Ovenproof dish

• Measuring spoons

Ingredients:

• 4 flour tortillas

• 200g cheddar, grated

• Some leftover cooked chicken, roughly half a roast chicken, shredded

• 1 onion, finely diced

• 400g passata

• 2 tsp fajita seasoning

• ½ tsp ground coriander

• ½ tsp ground cumin

• 1 tsp garlic granules

• 1 tsp dried coriander leaf

• ½ tsp salt

• ½ tsp sugar

Instructions:

Mix the passata, fajita seasoning, ground coriander, ground cumin, garlic granules, dried coriander, salt and sugar together in a large bowl until well combined.

In a separate bowl add the cooked chicken, onion, half the cheese and half the sauce.

Split the chicken mixture evenly between the 4 tortillas and roll each one up individually.

Place the 4 wraps into an ovenproof dish so they fit snuggly and cover with the remainder of the sauce followed by the rest of the cheese.

Pop in a preheated oven (180°C/360°F) for about 30 minutes or until the cheese has melted and started to crisp.

We enjoy our enchiladas with a dollop of natural yoghurt and a chunky salad of tomato, cucumber, red onion and avocado.

Download recipe here

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Happy cooking!

Stu