Sunday, May 18, 2014

Chicken Enchiladas

Mexican food is something which is very close to our Indian food pattern.They use different spices like us and really relate to some of our famous food.
Enchiladas is one of them.It nothing but corn tortillas wrapped with staffing. In my words it is just a modified version of Indian roll(Chicken/Paneer) with cheese. Though rather than making it with corn tortillas I really really prefer to make it with flour tortilla. My Indian reader who are wandering what  tortilla is , it is nothing but our famous 'Roti' and for this preparation we need soft flour roti's. So lets start preparing this.

Ingredients:
  • 500gms boneless chicken
  • 6 flour tortillas
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 4-5 cloves of garlic
  • 2-3 teaspoon of cumin
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • salt as per taste
  • 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
  • 2 dry red chili
  • 1 cup of  shredded cheese
  • 6 mozzarella cheese slice
  • chopped coriander 2-3 teaspoon.
  • 1 teaspoon of chili flex.
  • 1teaspoon ginger garlic paste.
  • 1 teaspoon green chili paste.
  •  3-4 teaspoon white oil
Procedure:
  • First we need to cut the chicken in small pieces.
  • Take a frying pan and put it in high heat.Pour oil in it and then add those chicken pieces.
  • Add ginger garlic paste ,green chili and mix it really well.
  • Add some salt,chili flex and let it fry in high heat till it become light brown and soft.
  • Do not fry it too much otherwise it will become hard.We want the chicken very soft and juicy.
  • Now we need to make the Enchiladas sauce.If you want you can buy it from store but I love to make this at home because in that case I can modify the taste of the sauce as per mine. Today I will share my version of enchiladas sauce.
  • Take a non-stick and put tomatoes,garlic,cumin,red chili,onion and dry roast it.Once tomatoes start burning little bit smash it and mix it well.Put it in high heat let it mix for another 5-10min and then let it cool down.


  • Take a mixer grinder,pour the mixture,add 1teaspoon salt,1 teaspoon sugar,1/2 teaspoon red chili powder and make a smooth paste and our Enchiladas Sauce is ready.
  • Take a Square glass ware and spread 4-5 tablespoon of sauce in it.

  • Take a flour tortilla,put 3-4 teaspoon of chicken in one side of the tortilla and sprinkle 1-2 teaspoon of shredded cheese on top of it.Then roll it tightly and put it on top of the sauce putting the open side down. 




  • Arrange all the Tortillas like the first one.

  • Add 7-8 table spoon Enchiladas sauce that we made, and spread it evenly.
  • Put sliced cheese on top of it. if you want you can put shredded cheese as well.That does not make much different in taste but I prefer to put slice cheese.
  • Cover it with aluminum  foil.
  • Preheat your oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit or 180 degree Celsius and cook it for about 20mins.
  • Remove it from oven,sprinkle some chopped coriander and chili flex and again cook it for another 5min.
  • And then your enchiladas is all ready to serve. Those who don't eat chicken they can use paneer instead of it and it will be equally tasty.




 

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