Green Sauce Chicken Enchiladas

Kick up your next enchilada dish a notch with these Green Sauce Chicken Enchiladas. Gourmet green tomatillo salsa cuts back on prep time giving you a quick, delicious meal for dinner!

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A while back I made these simple Green Sauce Chicken Enchiladas for dinner. It was a weeknight. I was lazy after work so I didn’t feel like fussing around much in the kitchen. I had bought a jar of gourmet green tomatillo salsa earlier in the week so I decided to make some enchiladas with it. After all, I had always wanted to try enchiladas with green sauce. I always get them with red sauce or cream sauce.

All you need are a few easy to grab ingredients for this dish. Use already diced bacon (found in the salad condiment isle of your grocery store but don’t get those Bacos, get real bacon pieces) and cooked chicken to cut back on time. A rotisserie chicken, leftover chicken, grilled chicken. Any type will work. You’ll find the rest of the list below. Enjoy!

Green Sauce Chicken Enchiladas

Yield: 3 servings

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

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Ingredients

• 3 C cooked chicken
• 1 can of chopped green chilis
• 3 tbsp chopped red onion
• 1/4 C sour cream
• 2 tbsp chopped bacon (use the real bacon bits, they're easier)
• 1/8 tsp ground cayenne pepper
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1/4 tsp seasoned salt
• 7 6 inch flour tortillas (on a GF diet? Use corn tortillas instead)
• Green tomatillo salsa (no measurements here - use what you want)
• Monterey jack cheese (no measurements here either)
• Fresh cilantro for garnish

Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl, mix together the chicken, bacon, chilis, onion, sour cream cayenne pepper, garlic powder and seasoned salt.
2. Place about 3 tbsp of the mixture into each tortilla. Roll each tortilla up and place into a lightly greased (cooking spray) 1 1/2qt baking dish. Top with desired amount of green tomatillo salsa and monterey jack cheese.
3. Bake at 350 for 10-15 minutes or until the cheese is melted.
4. Garnish with fresh cilantro

Notes

Adapted from the Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook

This recipe makes 7 enchiladas. One person can have an extra enchilada or you can split the 7th enchilada between everyone.

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