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Chicken Enchiladas With Pasilla Chili Sauce Recipe
Serves: 16
Keywords: Chicken, Mexican, Cheese, dairy, recipe, recipes, Chicken Enchiladas With Pasilla Chili Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
2
tb
Peanut oil 2-oz. package dried pasilla
Chilies, stemmed, seeded,
Torn into 1-inch pieces
½
c
Whole blanched almonds,
Chopped
4
Chicken breast halves
6
c
Chicken stock or canned
Low-salt broth
½
ts
Cumin seeds
4
Plum tomatoes, cored,
Quartered
½
Onion, quartered
4
Cloves garlic, peeled
2
tb
Firmly packed golden brown
Sugar
1
ts
Coarse salt
Peanut oil (for deep frying)
16
Corn tortillas
2 ½
c
Grated Montery Jack Cheese
1
c
Creme fraiche or sour cream
1
Avocado, peeled, seeded,
Sliced
Fresh cilantro sprigs
Directions
- Heat 2 tablespoons oil in large pot over high heat.
- Add chilies and almonds.
- Saute until chilies darken and almonds are golden, about 2 minutes.
- Using slotted spoon, transfer chilies and almonds to bowl.
- Reduce heat to medium.
- Season chicken with salt and pepper.
- Add to same pot and brown on all sides, about 5 minutes.
- Add stock; simmer until chicken is cooked through, aobut 20 minutes.
- Transfer chicken to another bowl using slotted spoon; cool.
- Reserve stock in pot.
- Toast cumin seeds in heavy small skillet over medium-low heat until aromatic, about 1 minute.
- Mince cumin seeds.
- Add cumin, chili mixture, tomatoes, quartered onion, garlic, sugar and salt to stock.
- Simmer until all ingredients are very soft, about 45 minutes.
- Working in batches, puree stock mixture in blender.
- Return to pot.
- Boil until reduced to 4 cups, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes.
- Season with salt and pepper. (Can be made 1 day ahead.
- Chill chicken and sauce separately. ) Remove skin from chicken and discard.
- Cut meat from bones and shred.
- Transfer to bowl and combine with 1/2 cup sauce.
- Set filling aside.
- Oil two 13X9-inch glass baking dishes.
- Pour oil into deep skillet to depth of 1/2 inch and heat to 375-degree F.
- Fry tortillas 1 at a time until softened, about 5 seconds per side.
- Using metal sapatula, transfer to paper towels.
- Spread 1 tablespoon sauce over each tortilla.
- Sprinkle each with 2 tablespoons cheese and 1 tablespoon chooped onion.
- Place 1/3 cup chicken down center of each tortilla; roll up.
- Place seam side down in baking dishes. (Can be made 1 hour ahead.
- Cover. ) Preheat oven to 350-degree F.
- Pour remaining sauce over enchiladas.
- Sprinkle with remaining cheese.
- Bake until heated through, about 20 minutes.
- Top with creme fraiche, avodado and clinatro.