Enchiladas & Mole Sauce
An easy mole sauce for great tasting Enchiladas
Equipment
- Pot, pan, knife, ect
Ingredients
Mole Sauce
- 2 Tbsp Olive Oil
- 1-2 med Onions chopped
- 3 - 8 cloves Garlic Chopped
- 1 tsp Dried hot peppers or 1 to 2 fresh hot peppers This is optional adds heat
- 1 to 1½ Tbsp Chili Powder
- 2 tsp Cumin
- 2 tsp Oregano
- 1 Tbsp Brown Sugar
- ½` tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Ground Black Pepper
- 3 Tbsp Fresh chopped cilantro can also use dried if no fresh avail drop amount to 1½ Tbsp
- 1 750ml Can Crushed Tomatoes this is even better if you have fresh tomatoes or your own canned tomato sauce
- 1 cup Chicken Broth
Enchilada Filling
- 1 lb Ground beef or Chicken
- 1 med Onion chopped
- 2 cloves Garlic Chopped
- 1-2 Fresh hot peppers of your choice Jalapenos are great here
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 3 cups Shredded Cheese mostly used for the top
Other Ingredients you need
- 12 Corn Tortillas You can use flow tortillas here but the flavour is not as good
- 1 Large Tomato Sliced
- 1 cup Shredded Lettuce
- Sour Creme
- 2 Green Onions sliced
- Hot sauce
Instructions
Making The Mole Sauce
- Get a pot large enough to contain the sauce about 2 quarts. Then add Olive oil to it and heat it up.
- Saute the onions garlic and fresh peppers until onions are clear or slightly browned.
- add all other spices and saute for a few minutes filling the air with that sweet smell of cooking spices.
- add Tomato sauce, chicken broth. Bring to a biol and the lower heat to med low and simmer while you prepare the filling
Making the Enchilada Filling
- Brown ground Beef. Once it is browned scoop out the meat into a bowl leaving behind the grease to fry the onions in.
- Saute the onions, garlic and fresh peppers in the beef fat until onions are clear to brown.
- Add back beef and chili powder and mix well. Turn off the heat for pan now.
Making the Enchiladas
- Turn off heat on Mole Sauce. Get an 8x12 baking dish and add a small layer of Mole sauce to the bottom of it and spread out
- Heat Oven to 350°f
- You may need to warm your corn tortillas you can do this by placing on an ovenproof container and placing in over for a few minutes while it is heating up.
- This step take a little practice. Scoop of a couple spoonfuls of meat into tortilla and add some cheese to it and then roll it up and place in baking dish.
- Once you have baking dish full then pour out Mole Sauce on top of all of it and spread evenly. The add cheese to the top and place in oven for 30 min. Once done pull out and let it sit for about 5 to 10 min before serving. Top with sliced tomatoes, sour creme, hot sauce and green onions. Then enjoy
Notes
This is an enchilada recipe I have been working on for sometime now. The basics have always been there but I was stumped on the Mole Sauce to have something that was easy to make without allot of fuss and get a great flavour.
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