Five ingredients and a few minutes of prep are all you need to make your own delicious enchiladas at home! I used taco seasoned ground turkey, chunky green salsa, green enchilada sauce, pre-shredded Mexican cheese and soft flour tortillas in this easy weeknight casserole recipe. And FYI…rolling each enchilada before placing into the baking dish takes about 10-seconds. Easy-peasy!
So obviously my enchilada casserole is made with green sauce, because that’s what the family prefers. But feel free to substitute the green sauce for a chunky tomato salsa and red enchilada sauce, and if you prefer lean ground beef over ground turkey, then use that too! Change it up to make it how your family likes it 🙂
I used the packaged shredded cheese in the recipe, just because it’s easy. But there are stabilizers in the cheese which prevents it from being ooey-gooey and melty. The cheese still melts, it’s just not the same as when you shred a block of cheese yourself.
Brown your ground meat…add a tablespoon of taco seasoning to your ground meat if it isn’t already seasoned like mine.
Just add approximately 1/4 cup of taco-salsa mixture to the middle of a tortilla, sprinkle on cheese, roll the enchiladas up tightly and place in prepared baking dish…
Five Ingredient Enchilada Casserole
Print RecipeIngredients
- 1 pound lean ground meat (I used Jenny-O Taco Seasoned Ground Turkey)
- 1 cup thick and chunky salsa verde
- 1 (19-ounce) can green enchilada sauce
- 2 cups shredded Mexican cheese
- 8 (8-inch) soft flour tortillas
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with baking spray. Set aside.
Over medium heat on the stove top, brown your ground meat. Drain the excess fat from the pan and return the pan to the stove and add the entire jar of salsa into the ground meat. Cook for 5-minutes over medium heat. Remove the pan from the heat.
Add half the can of enchilada sauce to the bottom of your 9x13-inch baking dish, evenly covering the bottom of the dish. Save the remaining enchilada sauce to cover the enchiladas after you roll them up.
Add approximately 1/4 cup of your meat-salsa mixture onto the middle of a tortilla, sprinkle with cheese and fold the left side over the top of the mixture and tightly roll the tortilla up. Place enchiladas seam side down in the baking dish. Repeat process with remaining seven tortillas. Pour the remaining enchilada sauce over the top of the enchiladas and top with remaining cheese.
Cover with foil and bake in 350-degree oven for 35-minutes. Let set for several minutes on the counter before serving.
Notes
Store leftover enchiladas in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Yum!! So tell me…
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RED SAUCE OR GREEN SAUCE?
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DO YOU LOVE ENCHILADAS??
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WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE, EASY WEEKNIGHT MEAL?
Leave me a comment below!!
XOXO,
Kelly
PS- I shared this recipe at the following link parties: Meal Plan Monday, Foodie Friday, Pretty Pintastic Party, The Pin Junkie.
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16 Comments
Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen
October 24, 2018 at 8:07 AMThis looks so much like my mom’s enchiladas, which are my ultimate comfort food. Now I’m craving them so I’m going to try your recipes since I don’t have hers 🙂
Kelly
October 26, 2018 at 7:16 AMYay!! I hope you try this easy recipe out 🙂 I wonder how it will stack up to your moms??? Let me know!
Dana
October 24, 2018 at 2:24 PMooh yum! Look at all that delicious sauce. Enchiladas are one of my favourite meals though I hardly ever make them. I usually make my own enchilada sauce when I do so it’s time consuming, that’s probably why! This looks super quick and easy though and so yummy. I need to try this with turkey sometime, I’ve only made chicken enchiladas. And green sauce (tamatilla) is the best!! I haven’t tried making it but it’s my choice at a restaurant. Gotta get me this sauce! Hope you’re having a great week, lovely!
Kelly
October 26, 2018 at 7:17 AMThanks Dana!! I’m all about easy, so I use ready made sauce and salsa in this recipe! Someday I will have to make my own tomatillo sauce. Mmmmmm. Have a great weekend my friend!
gralan
October 24, 2018 at 9:07 PMMy wife and I enjoy enchiladas and smothered burritos with “Christmas sauce” – red and green both. We also have been using low-fat Greek plain yogurt in place of topping these with sour cream (mixed yogurt – garlic pwdr, onion pwdr, and lime juice).
Thanks for this recipe, as we are fans of both La Victoria and Las Palmas products. We will try this asap.
Kelly
October 26, 2018 at 7:18 AMThis would definitely be yummy made with Christmas sauce! I will have to try that next time 🙂 I hope you give this easy recipe a try! If you do, come back and let me know what you thought 🙂
Amy
October 24, 2018 at 11:09 PMI love how you come up with such simple and down to earth recipes, like 5 ingredients. I think that we may have been twins in another life – ha ha! These enchiladas look fabulous.
Kelly
October 26, 2018 at 8:09 AMTotally twins in another life…I always think that when I read your recipes!! Easy recipes like this save me on weeknights 🙂 XOXO
pglooney
October 25, 2018 at 4:46 AMWe are both feeling the enchiladas this week. I preferred red sauce and my favorite weeknight quick meal is homemade pizza.
Kelly
October 26, 2018 at 8:10 AMHahahah we are always on the same page, right?!! That’s why we are friends 🙂 And now I want homemade pizza hehehehe
Amy (Savory Moments)
October 27, 2018 at 11:54 AMThis looks delicious – we love enchiliadas and these are quick and easy! Our go-to quick weeknight meal is tacos!
Kelly
October 30, 2018 at 7:18 AMThanks Amy!! We love tacos over here too!! So quick and easy 🙂 XOXO
Jean | DelightfulRepast.com
October 28, 2018 at 6:50 AMLooks good, Kelly! The other thing I don’t like about packaged shredded cheese is that if I don’t use the whole package right away, it goes moldy very quickly! I love the convenience at times, but it’s only worth it if I’m going to use the whole package. We love green sauces, too.
Kelly
October 30, 2018 at 7:19 AMYes!! I totally agree with you Jean! Luckily we use the whole package of cheese in this recipe….we leave no cheese behind hehehe 🙂 XOXO
Maria Doss
October 29, 2018 at 4:51 PMTruth be told, I have never attempted to make enchiladas:) Always assumed that they are laborious/complicated. But, this recipe is such a relief! Such an effortless dinner idea, will try soon. Thanks for sharing Kelly.
Kelly
October 30, 2018 at 7:22 AMThanks Maria!! I always thought enchiladas were labor intensive too, but these are so not!! Great for q quick weeknight meal 🙂