Enchiladas Coloradas Red Enchiladas Recipes

EASY RED CHICKEN ENCHILADAS

Steps:

• Melt butter with olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and salt; cook and stir until onion starts to turn golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in flour, chile powder, cumin, chipotle powder, black pepper, oregano, cayenne, and cinnamon. Cook and stir until fragrant, about 3 minutes. Add tomato paste and mix until fully combined. Pour in chicken broth and whisk until smooth.
• Increase heat to high and bring sauce to a simmer. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until flavors come together, about 10 minutes. Taste and season as desired. Blend sauce with an immersion blender.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Lightly brush tortillas with oil. Heat a small cast iron skillet over medium-high heat. Heat tortillas until flexible, about 30 seconds per side.
• Cover the bottom of the skillet with a scoop of enchilada sauce. Place a tortilla on top and add 1/2 of the chicken, 1/3 of the Jack cheese, and 1/2 the cilantro and green onions. Spoon on more sauce and repeat layers, finishing with sauce and the remaining cheese.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cheese melts and sauce is bubbling, 10 to 15 minutes.

THE BEST RED ENCHILADA RECIPE

Steps:

• Combine all of the ingredients for the sauce except for the heavy whipping cream, and blend until smooth.
• Strain out any seeds and add to a skillet, bringing to a slight boil.
• Add the heavy whipping cream, and let boil for 5 additional minutes. Reduce heat to low.
• In a hot skillet, add a small amount of olive oil and then add the shredded chicken, the onion, and the cilantro.
• After about 5 minutes, add the cream cheese, and stir in with the chicken until well incorporated.
• Season with salt and pepper and let cook for an additional five minutes.
• Lightly fry the corn tortillas in oil and pay dry.
• Dip each tortilla in the red enchilada sauce, covering both sides completely.
• Fill each tortilla with some of the chicken filling, and some cheese if desired.
• At this point you can add them to a baking dish, top with mozzarella cheese and bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.
• If you do not want to bake them, just put them on a plate, top with lettuce, cheese, and radish and serve immediately.

ENCHILADAS ROJAS, RED CHILE ENCHILADAS

Steps:

• Prep the chile sauce. Start by taking the stems off and opening the chiles to shake out the seeds. Flatten them as best you can. Heat a cast iron skillet or better yet, a Mexican comal over high heat. When it is blazing hot, toast the chiles. Press them down with a spatula for just a couple seconds: When they blister, flip them and do the other side. Remove to a bowl.
• When all the chiles have been toasted, char the quartered onion and the garlic cloves on the comal or skillet. You want some blackening. The garlic cloves will blacken first, so watch them.
• Now that you have everything smoky and charred, tear the chiles in pieces. Chop the onion. Peel the garlic. Heat the lard or vegetable oil in a pot over medium-high heat. Add the chiles, onions and garlic and saute for a minute or two. Pour in the stock, add the cumin and oregano and bring to a simmer. Add salt to taste and simmer gently until the chiles are soft, about 20 minutes.
• Puree the sauce in a blender. This sauce can be made up to a week in advance and stored in the fridge.
• Make the filling. Cut the meat into pieces about the size of your fingernail. Salt well. Mix with about 1/4 cup of the red chile sauce, the chopped sage as well as about 5 ounces of cheese and the minced white onion.
• Prep the tortillas. Heat the tortillas on a comal or other heavy skillet until they blacken a little. Then put them in a tortilla warmer, or stack on a plate and put a bowl over them. Let them steam a few minutes before building the enchiladas.
• Build the enchiladas. Pour a little red chile sauce into a casserole dish. Dip a tortilla in the red chile sauce briefly and shake off the excess. Fill a tortilla with a little of the filling and roll it up. Place seam-side down on the casserole. Repeat until you're done. You should get about 15 tortillas.
• Pour more red chile sauce over the enchiladas and top with lots of the shredded cheese. Bake at 350°F for 25 minutes and serve.

ENCHILADAS ROJAS

Steps:

• Remove all the stems, seeds, and veins from the dried chiles.
• Add the dried chiles to a stock pot and cover them with 4 cups water.
• Bring to a boil.
• Cover with a lid and turn off heat.
• Let sit in the hot water for 5-7 minutes, or until fully pliable
• Discard the water.
• Add the rehydrated chiles, onion, garlic, cumin, and salt to a blender.
• Add the remaining 2 cups water to the blender.
• Blender until smooth.
• Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a stock pot.
• Place strainer over the pot.
• Strain the sauce into the pot. Stirring occasionally.
• If the sauce is too thick, add a splash of water.
• Set aside until ready to use.
• In a large skillet, heat the remaining oil.
• Fry the tortillas. 1-2 minutes on each side.
• Place tortillas on a paper towel.
• Drain any excess oil.
• Dip the tortilla into the red chile sauce.
• Place the tortilla on a plate.
• Stuff with 1 tablespoon queso fresco.
• Fold one side of the tortilla over.
• Fold the other side of the tortilla in, creating the shape of a flute.
• Set aside.
• Cover with aluminum foil to keep warm.
• Repeat until there are no more tortillas.
• Sprinkle with more queso fresco, diced onion, avocado, and crema mexicana.
• Serve and enjoy!

ENCHILADAS ROJAS RECIPE

Steps:

• Let's start first with the enchilada sauce. Slightly roast the peppers in a hot griddle, pressing them flat with the help of a spatula. Make sure NOT to burn them. This step takes a few seconds on each side of the peppers.
• Once roasted, place them in a saucepan with water and turn the heat to medium and simmer for about 15 minutes or when they look soft.
• Remove saucepan from stove and let them cool for another 10-15 minutes. The pepper skins should look soft.
• After the resting period, drain the peppers and place in the blender along with the garlic cloves. Add 1/2 cup of clean water and blend until you have a smooth sauce. If necessary, strain the sauce into a large bowl using a fine strainer. Season with the oregano, salt, and pepper, and set aside.
• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees, just to keep the red enchiladas warm while you finish assembling them. Add the 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add oil little by little as needed. To much oil will get a soggy tortilla.
• Dip the tortilla into the enchilada sauce to lightly coat each side.
• Place it in the Frying Comal-pan or skillet and briefly fry a few seconds on both sides. Add more vegetable oil to the skillet as needed. Place fried tortillas in a dish while you make the rest of the tortillas to keep warm in the oven.
• To assemble the red enchiladas, first, place the filling in the center of the tortilla and fold it. Sometimes I place a meat filling into the center of the tortilla and then roll it, like in the pictures above.
• Sprinkle the enchiladas with the cheese and onion. Add the garnish of your choice and enjoy!
• If you decide to add the potatoes and carrots as a garnish: Peel potatoes and carrots, cut into cubes and boil until almost tender but still firm. Then drain and cool.
• Use the same frying pan where you fried the red enchiladas to lightly fry the potatoes, adding a little more oil. The potatoes and carrots will be coated with some of the sauce sticking to the frying pan. Season with salt and garnish with cheese.

BEEF ENCHILADAS WITH SPICY RED SAUCE

Steps:

• To make the spicy red sauce, heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat, and cook and stir 1/2 cup of onion until the onion is softened, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in 4 teaspoons of garlic, and cook and stir until fragrant, another 3 to 5 minutes, watching carefully to avoid burning the garlic. Stir in the oregano, 3 1/2 teaspoons of chili powder, basil, salt and black pepper, 1 teaspoon of cumin, the dried cilantro, salsa, tomato sauce, tomato paste, and chicken broth until the sauce is smoothly combined.
• Bring the sauce to a simmer, reduce heat to low, and simmer about 30 minutes, stirring often, until the flavors have blended and the sauce has thickened slightly.
• While spicy red sauce is simmering, cook and stir the ground beef in a large skillet over medium-high heat until the meat is evenly browned. Break the meat up into crumbles as it cooks, and drain off excess grease. Mix in 3/4 cup of onion, 1 tablespoon of garlic, 1/2 teaspoon of chili powder, and 1/2 teaspoon of cumin into the meat, and cook and stir until the onions are softened and the meat mixture is fragrant with spices, 5 to 10 more minutes. Stir in the enchilada sauce and beef broth; simmer for 5 more minutes. Stir in 1/2 cup of Mexican cheese blend, and allow the cheese to melt into the meat sauce. Reduce heat to low, and simmer the meat sauce for 30 more minutes to thicken.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• Spray both sides of each tortilla with cooking spray, stack up the tortillas with a piece of aluminum foil between each tortilla, and wrap the stack with aluminum foil. Place the tortillas into the preheated oven to warm, about 10 minutes.
• Spread about 1/2 cup of the spicy red sauce over the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Fill each tortilla with the meat sauce, reserving about 1/2 cup of the meat sauce; roll the tortillas into enchiladas, and arrange in the baking dish, seam sides down. Pour the remaining spicy red sauce over the enchiladas. Sprinkle with the reserved 1/2 cup of meat mixture, and top with remaining 2 cups of Mexican cheese blend.
• Bake until the cheese topping is golden brown and the sauce is bubbly, about 30 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle with cilantro to serve.

LA POSTA DE MESILLA'S RED ENCHILADAS (ENCHILADAS COLORADAS)

Steps:

• Fry individual tortillas in hot fat. Leave in only long enough to soften. Do not fry crisply.
• Immerse tortillas completely in red sauce.
• Take out quickly and place on serving plate and sprinkle generously with the cheese and onion.
• Continue in layer cake fashion until each plate has 2 or 3 tortillas.
• If tortillas seem dry, spoon added sauce to taste.
• Fry an egg, sunny side up, per serving and place on top of enchilada.
• Garnish around edge of plate with shredded lettuce.

ENCHILADAS COLORADO

Steps:

• For the tortillas: Combine the masa, water, shortening and salt in a bowl. Bring the mixture together with your hands and make into a uniform disc. Wrap the disk in plastic wrap and let rest at room temperature for about 20 minutes.
• Preheat a large cast-iron pan over high heat. Line the tortilla press with parchment paper.
• Portion the dough into golf-ball-size balls, about 1 1/2 ounces each. Place 1 ball at a time into the tortilla press between two sheets of parchment paper. Press down on the tortilla press. Carefully, peel away one sheet of the parchment. Flip the exposed side of the tortillas onto your hand and carefully remove the other side of the parchment. Place the tortilla directly onto the preheated skillet. Cook until the edges begin to curl and bumps form, 1 to 2 minutes. Flip and cook the other side, 1 to 2 minutes. Repeat with the remaining tortillas.
• For the enchiladas: Combine the chicken, chicken broth, salt, garlic and onions in a large saucepan over high heat. Bring to a boil, and then reduce the heat, cover with a lid and simmer until the chicken is fully cooked, about 20 minutes. Remove the chicken and set aside to cool. When cool enough to handle, shred the chicken and set aside.
• For the Colorado sauce: Heat a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Toast the chiles skin-side up until fragrant and beginning to darken, 30 seconds to 1 minute.
• Transfer the chiles to a bowl and pour over the boiling water, or enough to cover the chilies; soak until softened, about 15 minutes. Transfer the chiles and steeping liquid to the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until a smooth paste forms.
• Heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the coriander, cumin, garlic and onions and cook until softened and fragrant, 6 to 8 minutes. Whisk in the blended chile paste and bring to a simmer. Cook until slightly reduced and flavors are developed, 4 to 6 minutes. Sprinkle with salt and black pepper. Set aside.
• For assembly: Pour 1/4 inch vegetable oil into a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Soften the tortillas one at a time in the hot oil, about 5 seconds. Set each tortilla on a paper towel afterwards to soak up some of the oil.
• To assemble the enchiladas, dip a softened tortilla in simmering Colorado sauce and place on a work surface. Add 2 tablespoons shredded chicken and 1 tablespoon Colorado sauce. Roll up tightly and place on a serving platter.
• Top the enchiladas with crumbled queso fresco, onions and cilantro. Drizzle with some crema, if using, and serve immediately.

ENCHILADAS COLORADAS (RED ENCHILADAS)

Steps:

• Prepare RED CHILE SAUCE:.
• Wash chile and remove stems and seeds.
• Combine chile and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
• Lower heat and cook for 15 minutes.
• Let cool and blend in a blender a small amount at a time.
• Strain through a sieve and add salt.
• Store 2 cups in refrigerator for immediate use and freeze remainder for later use.
• Prepare ENCHILADAS:.
• Heat chile sauce over low heat.
• Heat oil in frying pan.
• Using tongs, dip each tortilla in the hot oil just long enough to soften it.
• DO NOT FRY!
• Place 2 tortillas, one at a time, on an oven proof plate.
• Spoon on one or two tablespoons of the red chile sauce.
• Sprinkle with cheese and onion.
• Repeat the process with 2 more tortillas.
• Put plate in a warm oven to melt cheese.
• Repeat the procedure until all four plates are in the oven.
• Melt butter in a frying pan.
• Fry the eggs the way you like them (Over easy works best with for this dish).
• Place one egg on top of each enchilada plate.
• Decorate edges of plate with shredded lettuce and serve.