Green Chili Chicken Enchiladas

Name: Green Chili Chicken Enchiladas
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Cuisine: Mexican, American, Latin American
Ingredients: • 1 cup chopped onion; • 2 Tbsp butter or margarine; 7 oz can diced green jalapeno peppers (drained); • 8 oz pkg. cream cheese (softened); • 1/2 tsp ground cumin; • 4 or 5 cups, chopped cooked chicken: - (*I boiled two large chicken breast or use a precooked chicken or leftover Turkey!); • 10 medium flour tortillas; • Can condensed cream of chicken or mushroom soup; • 1 carton sour cream; • 1/2 cup milk; • 3 cups shredded Monterey Jack or Mozzarella Cheese; 16 oz jar of Salsa Verde (mild); 2 cans chopped olives (optional)

5 steps

Prep:30minCook:45min

These are wonderful! Can be mild or spicy, depending on the peppers you use. I used canned jalapenos peppers .

Updated at: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 02:00:38 GMT

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Ingredients

10 servings

1 cuponion

chopped

2 Tbspbutter

or margarine

7 ozcan diced green jalapeno peppers

drained

8 ozcream cheese

p, softened

½ tspground cumin

4 cupschicken

chopped, cooked, I boiled two large chicken breast or use a precooked chicken or leftover Turkey

10flour tortillas

medium

condensed cream of chicken soup

Can, or mushroom

1 cartonsour cream

½ cupmilk

3 cupsMonterey Jack

shredded, or Mozzarella Cheese

16 ozSalsa Verde

mild

2 canschopped olives

optional

Instructions

Step 1

1. Make the filling: In a medium skillet, cook the butter and onion over medium high heat until tender. Stir in 1 T. green pepper (remaining pepper is for the sauce). 2. In a medium bowl combine cream cheese, 1 T. milk and cumin. Add onion mixture and chicken. Stir until combined.

Step 2

Make the Sauce: In a medium bowl combine remaining peppers, Salsa Verde, Cream of Chicken soup, sour cream and milk.

Step 3

Assembly: In a 9 X 13 baking dish, place some of the sauce in the bottom of the dish. Spoon chicken mix, cheese and olives into Tortillas. *you can add a little of the the sauce if you like a wet enchilada) Roll up and place seam down in the baking dish. Pour the remaining sauce evenly over the tortillas then sprinkle on the cheese and remaining olives.

Step 4

Bake at 350 for 30 - 35 minutes.

Step 5

Remove from oven and let sit another 5 - 10 min. Serve.