Chicken and Black Bean Enchiladas
Chicken and Black Bean Enchiladas with homemade red enchilada sauce, a delicious Mexican dish to make at home with little prep and just a few simple ingredients. The rotisserie chicken speeds up the cooking process, making it a hearty, healthy meal to enjoy with the whole family.
Servings: 7 enchiladas
Calories: 336kcal
Ingredients
- 7 tortilla wraps
- 2 cups shredded cooked chicken
- 1 cup grated cheddar cheese
- 1 cup grated Red Leicester cheese
- 1 cup black beans
For the enchilada sauce
- 500 ml tomato passata
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 2 cups chicken broth/stock
- 2 tablespoon oil
- 2 tablespoon plain flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon garlic granules
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ½ teaspoon chilli powder
Instructions
- To make the sauce, heat up the oil in a pan, add the flour and whisk well to avoid lumps forming.
- Add the tomato passata together with the oregano, cumin, garlic granules, salt, pepper and chilli powder.
- Give it a good stir, then pour in the stock and tomato paste.
- Leave it to simmer for 15 minutes until the sauce is slightly reduced.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius (390 Fahrenheit).
- In an ovenproof dish, pour in a quarter of the sauce, and spread it all over the bottom of the dish.
- On a tortilla wrap, add a tablespoon of sauce, and spread it well, keeping the edges clean.
- Add a handful of chicken, cheese and beans, and roll.
- Repeat with the remaining wraps, arranging them onto the dish.
- Pour over the wraps the remaining sauce, and top with the remaining cheese and beans.
- Bake for 15 minutes until the cheese is melted and the enchiladas are bubbling hot.
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Notes
Leftover chicken is just one idea, any other leftover meat can be used, especially if, like me, you enjoy a good Sunday Roast: leftover beef, pork or ham.
Apart from black beans, which are so yummy, any other beans would work, plus sweetcorn, chickpeas, or a combination of them.
As for cheese, I am a big fan of the cheddar cheese and red Leicester, but any other hard cheese would work.
Nutrition
Calories: 336kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 34mg | Sodium: 872mg | Potassium: 513mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 762IU | Vitamin C: 8mg | Calcium: 304mg | Iron: 3mg