Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, enchilada casserole. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook enchilada casserole using 15 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Enchilada Casserole:
- Take 9 Corn Tortillas
- Make ready 10 oz can, Enchilada Sauce
- Take 1 Onion, chopped
- Prepare 1 Green Bell Pepper, chopped
- Make ready 2 Zucchini, sliced small
- Take 1/2 tsp Cumin, ground
- Make ready 1 tsp Oregano
- Take 1/2 tsp Cayenne Pepper, or more to taste
- Get 1 Salt & Pepper
- Make ready 1 can Green Chili, chopped
- Make ready 1/2 cup Cilantro, chopped
- Take 15 oz can, Black and/or Pinto Beans
- Take 1 box Spinach, frozen and thawed or fresh chopped
- Make ready 1 Bag of Cheese, shredded
- Make ready 1 can Black Olives, sliced
This Enchilada Casserole is loaded with chili & beans and topped with sour cream & nacho cheese chips. Enchilada Casserole is a comforting family favorite meal, perfect for weeknights. The layers of tortillas, ground beef, beans, corn, and cheese, all smothered in red enchilada sauce will have you coming back for seconds! Enchilada Casserole makes a perfect weeknight or weekend meal to serve family and friends.
Instructions to make Enchilada Casserole:
- Note: You can use any vegetables you have on hand. I'd recommend keeping the onion and bell pepper though.
- Saute the onion and bell pepper in large pan. Add the zucchini and saute for another 3 to 4 minutes.
- Add all seasoning and oregano. Stir for one minute.
- Rinse beans.
- Add green chili, cilantro and beans. Stir and cook for 5 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- To large casserole dish, pour 1/2 cup sauce and spread to cover bottom of dish. Add tortillas to cover bottom of dish.
- Pour bean and vegetable mixture from pan over tortillas. Spread evenly with a spoon.
- Sprinkle a little bit of cheese on top
- Wrap thawed frozen spinach in three layers of paper towel and squeeze all liquid out of spinach.
- Add spinach on top of bean and vegetable mixture. If using thawed spinach, tear apart with hands and layer on top. If using fresh, sprinkle on top.
- Layer tortillas on top covering spinach.
- Pour enchilada sauce on top. Spread sauce to completely cover tortillas.
- Cover dish with foil tenting foil to try and keep the foil from touching the sauce.
- Bake in oven for 40 minutes
- Remove foil. Cover with remaining amount of cheese. Sprinkle on olives and cilantro (optional).
- Raise oven temperature to 400° and bake for another 15 to 20 minutes until cheese is lightly brown.
- Let casserole rest for 10 minutes before cutting and serving. Recommended step.
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