These enchiladas are completely homemade with a delicious salsa made from tomatillos, jalapeños, and cilantro
I make some sort of Mexican-inspired meal at least once a week.
They're usually so flavorful and pretty easy to make healthy.
One of my favorites to make is enchiladas.
So the other day when I was checking my email and saw this recipe from Fine Cooking for Quick Beef Enchiladas with Salsa Verde, I just couldn't resist.
How can you skip over a quick recipe for enchiladas?!
Plus I love that they are completely homemade, including the green enchilada sauce.
I changed the recipe a tiny bit just to have some more veggies, but I stuck pretty close to the original recipe.
Beef Enchiladas with Salsa Verde
These enchiladas are completely homemade with a delicious salsa made from tomatillos, jalapeños, and cilantro
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Servings: 5
Ingredients
- 1 lb tomatillos about 12-15 medium, husked and rinsed
- 1-2 jalapeños stemmed and halved lengthwise & seeded
- 1 large yellow onion half chopped and half diced
- ½ cup cilantro chopped, divided
- ¾ teaspoon salt divided
- 1 teaspoon oil
- 1 lb lean ground beef or sirloin
- 1 green bell pepper diced
- 2 teaspoon ground cumin
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 10 corn tortillas 6-inch
- 1 ¼ cups shredded cheddar cheese 5 oz.
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add in tomatillos, jalapeño, and the chopped onion. Cover and reduce heat to a simmer.
- Simmer for 10 minutes, until tomatillos & onions are tender. Drain and carefully put into a blender with ⅓ cup cilantro. Blend until it reaches your desired consistency. {I like mine pretty smooth}. Season with ½ teaspoon salt. Set aside.
- Meanwhile, heat oil over medium-high heat in a large skillet or Dutch oven. Add ground beef, remaining diced onion, diced bell peppers, cumin, remaining ¼ teaspoon salt, and pepper. Cook, breaking up beef into small pieces with a spoon, about 7 minutes. Carefully blot with a paper towel to absorb excess grease {discard paper towel}.
- Stir ½ cup salsa verde {that you just made} into the ground beef mixture.
- Preheat the oven broiler. Spray a 9x13 baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
- Heat the tortillas according to package directions. Fill each tortilla with about 3-4 tablespoon beef mixture. Top with 1 tablespoon cheese. Roll up, and lay seam side down in baking dish. Repeat until all the tortillas are filled.
- Pour the remaining salsa verde evenly over filled tortillas. Top with cheese. Broil for about 5 minutes, until cheese is bubbly & lightly browned. Sprinkle with remaining cilantro to serve.
Notes
*Based on this recipe from Fine Cooking
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Meme
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