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These cream cheese chicken enchiladas are one of our favorite Mexican inspired meals!
Is it too soon for another Mexican-ish recipe? Y’all seemed to love the Taco Pie, so I have high hopes that you’ll enjoy this recipe just as much. I sure did.
I am a huge fan of the cheese enchiladas from our local Mexican restaurant and believe me, I have tried my best to recreate them at home. I just can’t ever get them right, though. The cheese, the sauce, the consistency of it all just never seems to work out the way I imagine it too.
I still haven’t mastered that recipe, but I don’t really care anymore. Now I have these cream cheese enchiladas and they are, dare I say it, even better. They are so creamy with just the perfect amount of spice and the most genius addition I can think of: corn. Yep, corn. In an enchilada.
The corn just gives these this perfect little unexpected sweet crunch. I love it. I bet you will too.
These cream cheese chicken enchiladas come from my friend Deborah at Taste and Tell. She makes some delicious food and these enchiladas don’t disappoint!
I hope you’ll give these a try and let me know what you think!
You should try my chicken enchilada casserole too! It’s so good!
Cream Cheese Chicken Enchiladas
Ingredients
- 5 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1/4 cup light sour cream
- 10 ounces enchilada sauce canned is just fine
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese divided
- 1 cup shredded Monterey jack cheese divided
- 2 cups cooked shredded chicken
- 1 cup frozen corn kernels thawed (canned corn works just fine, but drain it first)
- 4 ounces diced green chiles I used the tiny can you get by the taco sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon cumin
- Salt and pepper
- 4 scallions thinly sliced
- 8 8- inch flour tortillas
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Spray a 9x13 dish with cooking spray.
- In the bowl of your mixer cream together the cream cheese, sour cream, and 1/2 of the enchilada sauce. Stir in 1/2 cup of each type of cheese.
- In a second bowl toss together the chicken, corn, cumin, chili powder, salt and pepper, green chiles, and half of the scallions. Add the chicken mixture to the cheese mixture and combine well.
- Spread about half of the remaining enchilada sauce in the bottom of the baking dish.
- Spoon the filling into each tortilla, roll the tortilla up, and place in the baking dish with the seam down. Pour the remaining enchilada sauce over the top of the filled tortillas and sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until hot and bubbly. Sprinkle with the remaining scallions and serve.
Nutrition Information:
Recipe slightly adapted from Taste and Tell
Melisa says
Made just as written. The corn idea was genius & tasted wonderfully! A delicious dish! Thank you!
Karly Campbell says
I’m so glad you enjoyed these!
Kayla says
Oh my goodness these are delicious! We are now addicted! 🙂
Karly says
Yay! We love these guys! 🙂
SA says
Anyone tried corn tortillas? I should not be eating flour. Thanks.
Karly says
I haven’t tried it, but I”m sure corn would work just fine. 🙂
Abbie says
Made these for dinner tonight. They were very good. I used about 3/4 of a 20 oz. can of enchilada sauce and they came were very saucy – the meat/cheese filling was quite wet. I probably didn’t need to use extra sauce. Loved the corn in the filling. Thanks for the recipe.
Diane @ The Checkered Apple says
These were great! Thanks for sharing your recipe!