Cream Cheese Green Chicken Enchiladas Food

GREEN CHICKEN AND CHEESE ENCHILADAS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a medium skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the garlic, onion, and cumin and cook until the vegetables are slightly softened, about 2 minutes. Add the drained spinach and half of the salsa and cook until warmed through. Remove from the heat and stir in the chicken. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
• Spread 1/2 of the remaining salsa in the bottom of a 10-inch square baking dish or oven-proof skillet. Lay 1 tortilla on the salsa and spread 1/2 the filling over it. Top with another tortilla and spread the remaining filling over it, and top with the last tortilla. Spread the remaining salsa over the tortilla and scatter the cheese over the top.
• Bake for 20 minutes, or until heated through and cheese has melted. Remove from heat and let stand for 5 minutes. Top with green onions, if desired, and cilantro. Top each serving with no more than 1 tablespoon light sour cream, if desired, and serve.

CHICKEN CREAM CHEESE ENCHILADAS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• De-bone chicken, and shred chicken into small pieces, if you don't have a rotisserie chicken.
• In a large skillet, combine chicken, cream cheese cubes, sour cream, chilies, chopped onion, seasonings, and 3/4 cup cheddar cheese.
• Heat until the cheeses are completely melted.
• Coat baking pan with cooking spray.
• Scoop a heaping spoonful of chicken mixture onto tortilla, roll and place into pan with seam side down, repeat until all of the filling is used.
• Pour enchilada sauce over the rolled tortillas.
• Sprinkle remaining cheese on top of enchiladas and bake at 350 uncovered for 20-25 minutes.

CREAM CHEESE GREEN CHICKEN ENCHILADA'S

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cube chicken and brown in deep skillet.
• Add the chilies and cream cheese to the pan with the chicken. Cook until cheese is thoroughly melted.
• Spray a 9x13" pan with cooking spray.
• Put a little of the green enchilada sauce on the bottom of the 9x13" pan. (about half of one can or so).
• Spoon chicken mixture into tortilla's and roll them up like burritos. (you can close the ends or leave them open it doesn't matter much.) Place them in the 9x13" pan.
• Pour the rest of the green enchilada sauce over the rolled enchiladas.
• Sprinkle with the shredded cheese.
• Bake for 35-45 min or until heated through.
• Let sit 5-10 minutes before serving.

CREAM CHEESE CHICKEN ENCHILADAS

Steps:

• Place chicken breasts in medium size saucepan; add water and sliced garlic. Cover adn bring to simmer. Cook until just tender, about 15 minutes. Cool. Remove chicken and reserve broth. Cut chicken into thin julienne strips. Set aside in a bowl.
• Saute onion in butter in medium size skillet until just soft, about 5 minutes. Add chopped garlic; saute 1 minutes. Add chilies, chili powder, cumin, salt, oregano, and pepper. Cook 1 minute. Stir in flour until well combined. Cook 1 minute, stirring.
• Stir in reserved chicken-cooking broth, the 1 cup chicken broth and heavy cream. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently until mixture thickens, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in 1 cup of shredded cheese until melted. Stir in chunks of cream cheese.
• Combine 1 cup cheese sauce with the reserved chicken. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Heat vegetable oil in small skillet until hot. Dip tortillas, one at a time, in hot oil just until limp, about 5 to 10 seconds on each side. Do not let them become crisp. Place on work surface.
• Divide chicken filling equally along the center of each tortilla. Top each with sliced green onions. Roll up each tortilla and place, seam side down, in 2 rows in 13 x 9 x 2 inch baking dish. Pour remaining cheese sauce evenly over tortillas. Sprinkle with remaining 1 cup cheese. Bake in preheated hot oven (400°F) for 20 minutes or until bubbly. Garnish with extra sliced green onion. Serve with guacamole, salsa and sour cream.

ADDICTIVE GREEN ENCHILADAS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Pour 2 tablespoons green enchilada sauce into the bottom of a 13x9 glass baking dish.
• In large bowl, mix shredded chicken, green chilis, cream cheese, onions, 1/2 cup shredded cheese, and 2 tablespoons of the green enchilada sauce.
• Spoon mixture evenly into corn tortillas and roll up.
• Line up tortillas, touching each other, fitting as many tortillas as you can (but not on top of eachother.).
• Pour remaining enchilada sauce over rolled tortillas.
• Sprinkle remaining shredded cheese over sauce and cover the 13x9 with foil.
• Bake in a 350 degree preheated oven for 40 minutes.
• Remove from oven and let sit at room temp for 10 minutes before serving.

CHEESY GREEN ENCHILADAS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Lightly coat with oil or cooking spray a large 9x13 baking dish.
• In a large bowl combine, chicken, 1 1/2 cup of cheddar cheese, 1/1/2 cup of pepper jack cheese, diced green chillies, 2 cups of sour cream, garlic powder, chili powder and onion powder.
• Mix until well combined.
• To assemble, have a large bowl ready with the green enchilada sauce in it and a plate to roll the enchiladas on.
• Take a flour tortilla and dip it into the bowl containing the sauce until it's all covered.
• Then place on the plate and almost on the edge of one side of the tortilla add 1/4- 1/2 cup of the chicken filling depending on how full you want them to be.
• Take the tortilla with the filling on it and roll it into a tube and lay in greased baking dish.
• Repeat until you have either no room left in your pan or your out of filling.
• With the remaining sauce pour over enchiladas and smooth out on top until there is a thin layer of sauce.
• With the remaining 1/2 cup of sour cream spread evenly over the top of enchiladas.
• Take remaining 1/2 cup of cheddar and 1/2 cup of pepper jack cheese and sprinkle evenly over top of enchiladas.
• Cover with foil for the first 25 minutes of cooking.
• Remove foil and bake for another 15-20 minutes until bubbly and cheese is melted on top.

CREAM CHEESE CHICKEN ENCHILADAS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking dish.
• Bring a saucepan of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook the chicken breasts in boiling water until no longer pink in the center and the juices run clear, 7 to 10 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C). Remove chicken to a cutting board to cool.
• Beat cream cheese, garlic, cumin, salt, and pepper together in a bowl. Stir tomatoes, green onion, green chiles, cilantro, and lime juice into the cream cheese mixture. Add 1 cup Cheddar cheese and fold to integrate.
• Shred cooled chicken with a pair of forks into strands; stir into the cream cheese mixture. Spoon about 1/2 cup of the chicken mixture into the center of each tortilla and fold tortilla around the filling; arrange into the prepared baking dish. Top tortillas with remaining Cheddar cheese and green enchilada sauce.
• Bake in the preheated oven until hot and the cheese is melted, about 20 minutes.

CHICKEN AND GREEN CHILE ENCHILADAS WITH GOAT CHEESE CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix together 1 cup of sour cream, chicken, 1 tbsp of the goat cheese, green chilies, salt, and pepper.
• Place two corn tortillas in glass baking dish. Top with 1/3 of chicken filling, and then with some of the Monterey jack cheese. Repeat this process, ending with tortillas.
• Whisk together the remaining sour cream, half and half, and remaining goat cheese. Pour over top layer of tortillas and top with remaining Monterey jack.
• Cover with foil and bake at 350°F for 30 minutes.