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Easy Salsa Verde Chicken Enchiladas Recipe

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Easy Salsa Verde Chicken Enchiladas Recipe

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Ingredients

  1. 1 teaspoonneutral flavored oil
  2. 2garlic cloves, minced
  3. 2 cups (16 ounces)salsa verde, store-bought or try our roasted salsa verde recipe
  4. 1/2 cupsour cream
  5. 1/4 cupcilantro leaves and tender stems, chopped, plus more for serving
  6. 1.5 cupsshredded cooked chicken (cooked in Instapot)
  7. 1 cupshredded cheddar, Monterey Jack or Mexican cheese blend
  8. 6 (8 inch)flour tortillas

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Shredded chicken: place 2 chicken breast (for ~1.5 cups of shredded chicken) in Instapot. Season chicken with 0.5 tsp of salt, some pepper, and onion powder.

  2. 2

    Sauce: Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat then cook garlic until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in the salsa verde and cook until heated through, about 1 minute. Remove skillet from the heat then stir in the sour cream and cilantro. Taste for seasoning, adjusting with salt, pepper or more sour cream if the sauce it too spicy.

    Set aside about 1 cup of the sauce for assembling the enchiladas.

  3. 3

    Stir the shredded chicken and half of the cheese into the sauce that has not been set aside.

  4. 4

    Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 2-quart baking dish and spread a little reserved sauce on the bottom.

    Add about 1/3 cup of the chicken filling to the middle of each tortilla and roll into a cylinder. Repeat, lining up tortillas, seam-side down, tightly in the dish.

    Spread the reserved sauce over the tortillas and sprinkle with remaining cheese. Cover the dish with aluminum foil and place in the oven. Bake until heated through, about 15 minutes. Remove the foil and bake 10 minutes l

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