Chicken Enchiladas
Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 2 hrs
Ingredients
- Servings: 6
- 6 large chicken legs or 1 whole chicken
- 3 carrots
- 3 stalks celery
- 1 large onion
- water
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 4 cups milk (hot)
- salt and pepper
- nutmeg (feshly grated is best)
- 12 -14 flour tortillas (7 inch, depending how much you fill them)
- 3 cups of old cheddar cheese (or your favorite)
- cooking spray
Recipe
- 1 place chicken legs and vegetables in large pot, cover with water and cook for aprox. 1 hour.
- 2 remove chicken and take off the skin and shred the chicken.
- 3 refrigerate the stock, skim off the fat and freeze it for another use.
- 4 over medium heat, melt butter, add flour, cook for 1 minute.
- 5 add hot milk and cook until slightly thickened. (not too thick).
- 6 add salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste.
- 7 take 1 cup of the sauce and mix it in with the chicken.
- 8 place as much of the chicken mixture you like on each tortilia and wrap them up placing them seam side down in a sprayed baking dish.
- 9 pour the remaining sauce over the enchiladas.
- 10 sprinkle with cheese.
- 11 bake in a 350 oven for 25-30 minute.
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