Grammy's Kitchen · Enchiladas · The BEST Chicken Enchiladas
One of 122 enchiladas recipes we measured
from natashaskitchen.com
397 cooks on natashaskitchen.com rate it 4.9★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 122.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| protein add | 100% | 100% |
| salt | 1% | 0% |
| aromatics | 0% | 6% |
| vegetables and beans | 0% | 1% |
| liquid | 61% | 39% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 8 flour tortillas ( 10-inch burrito size) | |
| 680 g | 1 1/2 lb chicken breast or thighs |
| 85 g | 3 oz cream cheese (room temp) |
| 77 g | 1/3 cup sour cream |
| 128 g | 4.5 oz diced green chilis (with their juice) |
| 567 g | 20 oz mild red enchilada sauce ((We used 2 - 10oz cans)) |
| 8 g | 1 1/4 tsp salt (divided) |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp ground black pepper |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp garlic powder |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp paprika |
| 282 g | 2 1/2 cups shredded cheese (divided (Mexican, Four Cheese or Colby Jack)) |
Method: 7 steps, published by natashaskitchen.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“We LOVE this recipe. We use “crockpot salsa chicken” (any random internet recipe) and it makes the chicken flavourful and easy to shred. My 12 year old son makes these with very minimal assistance, although we can make them very quickly if we work together. He” — a cook, 5.0★
“I used Hatch organic enchilada sauce and then added the additional ingredients as listed in Natasha’s recipe for completing the sauce. Hatch comes in 15 oz cans so I measured a total of 20 oz as indicated in Natasha’s recipe. It tasted very good. Hatch brand w” — a cook, 5.0★