Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, enchilada casserole. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Enchilada Casserole is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Enchilada Casserole is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook enchilada casserole using 15 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Enchilada Casserole:
- Take 9 Corn Tortillas
- Prepare 10 oz can, Enchilada Sauce
- Make ready 1 Onion, chopped
- Take 1 Green Bell Pepper, chopped
- Get 2 Zucchini, sliced small
- Get 1/2 tsp Cumin, ground
- Prepare 1 tsp Oregano
- Take 1/2 tsp Cayenne Pepper, or more to taste
- Take 1 Salt & Pepper
- Make ready 1 can Green Chili, chopped
- Take 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
- Prepare 1 can Black Olives, sliced
Steps 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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